Posted on 01/21/2025 5:05:50 PM PST by SunkenCiv
While redecorating the Oval Office for an incoming President to reflect their tastes and needs -- changing curtains, for instance, and the large oval rug over the decorative timber floor -- has become a normal part of the inauguration day handover, the presence of the bust of Churchill has become a political matter. Having sat in the Oval Office after being made a gift in 2001 for seven years, the bust was removed by President Barack Obama upon his inauguration in 2009 and replaced with one of Martin Luther King Jr.
This was met with controversy and allegations President Obama had demoted the Churchill Bust to a corridor in the Residence because of anti-British sentiment, something his administration later denied.
President Trump restored the bust when he took power in 2017 following lobbying by Brexit's Nigel Farage...
President Trump made a point of showing the Churchill bust to then-British Prime Minister Theresa May when she visited the White House in 2017.
But the story didn't end there, with President Joe Biden again removing the Churchill bust in 2021, adding busts of Robert F. Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, and former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt instead. Biden also removed the flags of the branches of the U.S. armed forces from the Office, something else Trump had returned to their place this week.
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Brexit's Nigel Farage ??? How about British MP or British politician Nigel Farage, ya miserable liberal media shill?
Tucker Carlson is deeply saddened.
Barry, the black liberation Marxist.
Damn Biden, having a bust of Cesar Chavez in the White House. Hope it gets busted on the way to storage. We don’t need communist heroes on display.
It’s Breitbart. I doubt it’s an article written by a liberal.
It’s Breitbart. I doubt it’s an article written by a liberal.
I think there’s some ugly pics put up by Obama. That’s what storage space is for.
Obama and Biden would have put their communist heroes in the Oval Office if they could have. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Che Guevara, all the goodies.
“ Hope it gets busted on the way to storage. We don’t need communist heroes on display.”
Send it to Schumer’s office.
Churchill and Trump both had non sequential 2 terms interrupted by someone else.
That’s what a bonfire in the driveway is for. :^)
If Trump is planning for the decline of the USA as a major world power, then Churchill is a good model.
If Trump is planning for better than that, he needs to set his sights higher than the Boomer worship of Churchill.
Churchill (1942): ““We mean to hold our own. I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.”
LOL !
To be fair, it was not Churchill's fault.
The UK became socialist after the end of WWII under Clement Attlee with the establishment of the NHS and the nationalization of key industries.
Will Trump show Churchill’s bust to the Indian Prime Minister when he visits?
Why would Tucker be saddened?
“The UK became socialist after the end of WWII under Clement Attlee with the establishment of the NHS and the nationalization of key industries.”
Exactly so. The UK won the war and lost the peace.
That’s right. And Churchill said he opposed it all. Got back into office on a promise to reverse it.
And did nothing.
Establishing the pattern of post-war “conservatives”. No wonder they love him so much.
“Is this some kind of bust?”
“Yes ma’am it’s very impressive. But we need to ask you some questions.”
And did nothing.
Good point. Not sure what happened there. Maybe Churchill dropped the ball there. He was getting up there in the years.
Or the Labour Party was able to stop his agenda in the Parliament.
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