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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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Use it for toilet paper. That’s all it’s good for, since he’s been a skidmark on our collective ass for eight years.
Hang it above the toilet.
Obama’s painting deserves wjhat happened to the painting of Dorian Gray!
The time for civility is long past. They started this, we’ll finish it.
Considering that Obama had Trump spied upon and actively conspired to have him impeached as well as enabling the false prosecution of members of his staff and administration, President Trump may rightfully feel that the usual courtesies do not apply here.
Perfect
according to people familiar with the matter. LOL.
It is a very weird portrait.
I think tradition is that the current President will hang a portrait of the previous President in the White house after it has been commissioned. Where in the White house is up to the current President. This could open up great possibilities for President Trump. Hang it in the back of a storage closet. Hang it in the attic. Hang it any place where no one will see it.
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From US News,
Former President Barack Obama will forgo the unveiling of his presidential portrait in the White House as President Donald Trump ramps up attacks on his record.
It is a long-held White House tradition that a first-term president hosts a ceremony to unveil the official portrait of his immediate predecessor that will hang in the building. However, people familiar with the matter told NBC News that Obama will skip the unveiling of his portrait.
Now THERE’s a portrait that I’d love to take a pee on.
No, make that a bodacious dump.
Just think, a turd on a turd.
Fake news?
If the honoree, President Obama, decides not to attend, then it is only logical to not hold the ceremony. As for the hanging ...
Obama should have a real portrait done just like other Presidents instead of the cartoon portrait of a guy in a weed filled garden. (No pun intended) Yeh right!!
Just take solace in knowing that BIG MIKE makes jug ears bleed from where ever.
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