Mount Rushmore was sculpted by Gutzon Borglum and a team of workers using drills, dynamite, and chisels over 14 years (1927–1941). The granite involved millions of tons of stone; the project required engineering, planning, and industrial-scale construction. The claim attributes the entire project to Chuck Norris using improvised hand tools (a bottle opener and drywall trowel).

The premise is maximally absurd, which is the point: not just claiming Chuck Norris could do it, but that he did it single-handedly with makeshift tools, erasing the historical record of thousands of workers and decades of labor.

Art historian Dr. Nathan Poole noted that this fact emerged during a period when Chuck Norris facts were escalating in historical revisionism—claiming to have done famous deeds that others receive credit for. The pattern suggested a paranoid fantasy: what if all of history's achievements were actually Chuck Norris, and we simply didn't know?