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Trump refuses to unveil Obama’s portrait at the White House…
Citizen Free Press ^ | 5/19/2020 | Kane

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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To: Beave Meister

Obama can’t face his accuser.


41 posted on 05/19/2020 3:50:52 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Beave Meister

Obama was never eligible under our Constitution.

It says natural born citizen.

Obama is NOT one.


42 posted on 05/19/2020 3:51:49 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


43 posted on 05/19/2020 3:52:32 PM PDT by x
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To: Beave Meister

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.


44 posted on 05/19/2020 3:53:14 PM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: Beave Meister

45 posted on 05/19/2020 3:53:56 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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To: Beave Meister

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.


46 posted on 05/19/2020 3:54:47 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: NFHale

Even if PDJT did all of that, he’ll still win by a landslide.


47 posted on 05/19/2020 3:56:32 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberal employees at every election since 2008 because I enjoy seeing them cry)
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To: Fiddlstix

Outstanding


48 posted on 05/19/2020 3:57:15 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Beave Meister

Hang it in the toilet!


49 posted on 05/19/2020 3:57:39 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: Bratch

LMAO


50 posted on 05/19/2020 3:58:02 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Leaning Right

Guy in blue goin’ down on Big Mike!? Barry likes!


51 posted on 05/19/2020 4:01:58 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Beave Meister
Here's yer portrait, Jugears ...

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!

52 posted on 05/19/2020 4:03:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (Criminals wear masks.)
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To: Beave Meister

53 posted on 05/19/2020 4:05:34 PM PDT by datura
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To: Beave Meister; Chode; Squantos; SkyDancer; Delta 21; tubebender; Lockbox; OldMissileer; ...
Cover it with a Negative of the Pic and keep it covered forever.

Petunia the Masked Pig of Justice.
And Yes She can Fly !!!

54 posted on 05/19/2020 4:05:58 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: mabarker1

0blowme said HE was the one not letting it be “unveiled”, Trump has nothing to do with it


55 posted on 05/19/2020 4:09:16 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: Beave Meister

“the presidency transcends those differences.”

The Presidency transcends Illegal Counterfeit.


56 posted on 05/19/2020 4:13:44 PM PDT by Varsity Flight (QE 2020. All Quiet on the Western Front)
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To: Skywise
I thought Obama refused.

Yea, me too.....In fact there was a thread addressing the jerk's refusal.......

57 posted on 05/19/2020 4:15:46 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Beave Meister

Maybe a painting of Obama as King Merdas.


58 posted on 05/19/2020 4:16:14 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Beave Meister

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!


59 posted on 05/19/2020 4:22:05 PM PDT by Bommer (t'am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: Beave Meister

well since Obama was refusing to even attend the unveiling of his own portrait

let it sit in the junk pile in the basement


60 posted on 05/19/2020 4:22:38 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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