Posted on 05/19/2020 3:25:45 PM PDT by Beave Meister
The traditional White House portrait unveiling may be skipped for the first time in decades amid bad blood between Trump and Obama.
WASHINGTON — It’s been a White House tradition for decades: A first-term president hosts a ceremony in the East Room for the unveiling of the official portrait of his immediate predecessor that will hang in the halls of the White House for posterity.
Republican presidents have done it for Democratic presidents, and vice versa — even when one of them ascended to the White House by defeating or sharply criticizing the other.
“We may have our differences politically,” President Barack Obama said when he hosted former President George W. Bush for his portrait unveiling in 2012, “but the presidency transcends those differences.”
Yet this modern ritual won’t be taking place between Obama and President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. And if Trump wins a second term in November, it could be 2025 before Obama returns to the White House to see his portrait displayed among every U.S. president from George Washington to Bush.
It’s too soon to know whether the absence of the uniquely harmonious occasion, when presidents set aside political differences, is just a reflection of a singular dynamic between two presidents whose differences have increasingly been aired in full view or whether it is symbolic of a broader, bitter political era.
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Trump?
I thought Obama refused.
And when Trump wins a second term in November, it could be 2025 before Obama returns to the White House if he doesn’t die of an STD before then.
Personally, I’d burn the f***ing thing, on the White House lawn, and invite CNN, MSDNC, etc.
Then I’d have my dog piss on it, to put out the flames, of course...
But yeah... I love this POTUS too.
Earlier reports were that Obama refused to attend while Donald Trump was president. This headline attempts to paint President Trump as the petulant party.
How can it possibly be harmonious after what Obama and his minions tried to do to Trump.? First time in history that this was done. If I were Trump, I wouldn’t want him anywhere near my family.
...or send it to Kenya like Obama did to Churchill’s bust.
Good! Why show the jug-eared, commie any sort of civility after what he’s done to President Trump. I hope Barry Soetoro bleeds from his eye sockets!
Trump should put a big sign underneath that says “this punk spied on the person who will be here —>
I also thought it was Obama who refused.
When did Obama say he was refusing to come to the White House while Trump was president?
Pro tip. You want to be invited back, it’s best to not try and use the FBI to frame and spy on the incoming President.
I also saw that POS Obama had refused.
WH trash pickup is on Wednesday. Trump would put it on the curb.
Throw it out with the rest of the trash.
Personally, I believe that ODUMBO’s portrait belongs IN a urinal in the WH Visitor’s center, where it is convenient to “decorate it” with what a decision of the SCOTUS once called “a precious bodily fluid”.
I would LOVE to “wet it down” with MY “precious gold”. = CHUCKLE.
Yours, TMN78247
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