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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Obama can’t face his accuser.
Obama was never eligible under our Constitution.
It says natural born citizen.
Obama is NOT one.
They just aren’t doing it. No ceremony. I don’t know who’s to blame, but the other version with the Petty Obama refusing sounds like it was spun to encourage people to make bitchy comments.
That portrait has already been seen. It was totally inappropriate to be displayed in the White House anyway.
And no other President in history that we know of has tried to stage a coup d’état against his successor, and attempt to set up a shadow presidency and traveling to foreign countries before and/or after the current POTUS trips.
Or schedule the ceremony for immediately after indictments of Obama officials in the spying scandal. Then have Trump deliver provocative remarks at the unveiling and challenge Obama to reply. Without prepared remarks, he will mumble and squirm.
Even if PDJT did all of that, he’ll still win by a landslide.
Outstanding
Hang it in the toilet!
LMAO
Guy in blue goin’ down on Big Mike!? Barry likes!
What did you expect? You have made fun of and demonized good Americans at every turn.
For eight years you did everything you could do to destroy the very fabric of our lives.
You deserve this. You're a moron!
0blowme said HE was the one not letting it be “unveiled”, Trump has nothing to do with it
“the presidency transcends those differences.”
The Presidency transcends Illegal Counterfeit.
Yea, me too.....In fact there was a thread addressing the jerk's refusal.......
Maybe a painting of Obama as King Merdas.
Strange? This could be the only time that Trump gets to unmask Obama. Personally, i would put rubber grate around it and make it a door mat!
well since Obama was refusing to even attend the unveiling of his own portrait
let it sit in the junk pile in the basement
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