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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And no other President in history that we know of has tried to stage a coup d’état against his successor,
But there was that POS johnson who just put a Hit on JFK and got away with it.
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That’s one theory, and I have no doubt he was entangled in it, but I also suspect that Johnson was just another of the puppets and the actual order came from a higher up Derp.
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.
...ormaybe by 2025 Obummer will have been hung. It will be interesting.
ACTUAL HEADLINE FROM THE LINK:
Barack won’t show up, so Trump refuses to unveil Obama’s portrait at the White House…
That was my understanding, Obama called it off not Trump.
Sounds like they’re both refusing simultaneously. LOL!
0s portrait should go on an outhouse, somewhere in the DC swamp.
“That was my understanding, Obama called it off not Trump.”
Sounds like first hit was Obama’s peeps saying he wasn’t interested, and Trump obliged.
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Barry ‘nobama’ Soetoro is such a small evil pick of a sob...really shows what a pure *sswipe he surely is!
I would venture to say that that photo is the CLOSEST that BO has ever come to LABOR in his life, before and after.
I have seen the pic of him “laboring” to hang a curtain rod...
Weird and eerie. Note the disproportionate size of the hands in the Obama painting in # 19.
Leni
My favorite is of him trying to maneuver the umbrella under the ‘open archway’
And the one of BO and the bike helmet when Putin was wrestling a water buffalo or something just as manly...
He should unveil it.
obama in prison stripes.
"Whoops, someone accidentally threw it on the July 4th bonfire in the Rose Garden."
One has to go—Washington is too small for Egos like Trump and Obama. The Dems have shot the wad—all they have to unseat Trump and failed. Now its Trumps turn to use every tool in his arsenal to get Obama. Obama could play dirty—But Trump is a New Yorker he knows how to fight dirty too. You will know when something really awful happens to Obama and his golden reputation.
“...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.”
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Hmmm.. Obama makes one of his patented “smartest-guy-in-the-world” moves and says he “will skip the unveiling of his portrait”.
It’s President Trump’s turn and he says “there will be NO UNVEILING OF THE PORTRAIT —— CHECKMATE!”.
The thing is on display at the National Portrait Gallery. A very ugly picture.
When this story first came out earlier in the day that was the case. Think they had to fake it up to protect The One.
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