Donald Trump decided to use an exterior wall of the White House, named walk of fame, to hang photographs of the 47 American presidents. And that day in September when he inaugurated the presidential march, he showed what his objective was by hanging a photo of an autopen in place of Joe Biden.
A few months later, he added partisan plaques that show the Trump administration’s hatred and resentment of previous Democratic presidencies, to the point of rewriting recent U.S. history.
Thus, in the plates discovered this Wednesday, we can read references to Sleepy Joe Biden to the claim that contemporary Republican icon Ronald Reagan describes himself as an admirer of the young Trump.
The plaques, moreover, are written in that bombastic style so typical of Trump and his administration, in yet another example of how the US president is molding the White House in his image and likeness, from hoarding gold in the Oval Office to demolishing the East Wing to build a $350 million gala hall even bigger than the White House itself.
In this sense, an introductory plaque was placed on the Presidential Walk which informs that it was “designed, built and dedicated by President Donald J. Trump in tribute to previous presidents, good, bad and some mediocre”.
Biden’s plaque repeats the lie that the 46th president, a Democrat, took office “in the wake of the most corrupt election in history,” when in fact he beat Trump in 2020 in both the popular vote and the Electoral College. Biden is also described as “by far the worst president in American history.”
Another Democrat, Barack Obama, the first black president and Trump’s first-term predecessor, is described as “one of the most controversial political figures in American history.”
The plaque beneath the portrait of former President George W. Bush also laments that he “started wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, neither of which should have happened.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the texts are “eloquent descriptions of each president” and “many were written directly by the president himself,” the Associated Press reports.
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