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babylonsister

(171,021 posts)
Tue May 19, 2020, 08:09 AM May 2020

Trump Won't Host Obama for Portrait Ceremony

SOOO juvenile.

https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/19/trump-wont-host-obama-for-portrait-ceremony/

Trump Won’t Host Obama for Portrait Ceremony
May 19, 2020 at 7:39 am EDT By Taegan Goddard


“It’s been a White House tradition for decades: a first-term president hosts his immediate predecessor in the East Room for a ceremony to unveil the portrait of the former president that will hang in the halls of the White House for posterity,” NBC News report.

“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.”

“Yet this modern ritual won’t be taking place between Obama and President 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.”
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Trump Won't Host Obama for Portrait Ceremony (Original Post) babylonsister May 2020 OP
My guess is that he'll order that Bettie May 2020 #1
Why would President Obama even want to go. Texaswitchy May 2020 #2
President Obama is relieved . . Iliyah May 2020 #3
What a dirty, rotten piece of scum... TheCowsCameHome May 2020 #4
Like this: lastlib May 2020 #7
Great pic! FM123 May 2020 #11
He couldn't carry President Obama's jock strap. He's an insecure child. spanone May 2020 #5
Wow. There could not be a smaller or pettier man sitting in our White House. FM123 May 2020 #6
These kind of petty things from the thing makes me smile... Moostache May 2020 #8
I laugh at this, because it's showing the festering within Trump's brain. Obama pays zero rent. TheBlackAdder May 2020 #15
He knows Obama would show up in full PPE. panader0 May 2020 #9
He's afraid of being in the same room with Obama. Walleye May 2020 #10
This will be Trump's portrait, if he even gets one. . . DinahMoeHum May 2020 #12
Trump's Portrait Ceremony hosted by President Biden Mr. Ected May 2020 #13
I think you are being a bit too optimistic about Trump's legal future. totodeinhere May 2020 #30
Mr. Petty Shitstain. spanone May 2020 #14
You guys don't actually think Obama would've attended, do you?? tman May 2020 #16
Of course Pres Obama would go. He's not scared or worried about Trump. He would wear a face mask. SoonerPride May 2020 #22
Why not? Igel May 2020 #29
Joe will when hes Prez.... samnsara May 2020 #17
Coward, afraid of a better man. Kid Berwyn May 2020 #18
No facts here...just "according to people".......waste of time. virgogal May 2020 #19
Trump keeps breaking all these traditions and getting away with crimes past Presidents were punished dustyscamp May 2020 #20
GOOD. It makes trump look bad, keeps Obama from endangerment. (nt) Paladin May 2020 #21
A Punk Move ProfessorGAC May 2020 #23
Trump's portrait will be portly Blue Owl May 2020 #24
I would love to see nykym May 2020 #25
Allows Joe to do the same lame54 May 2020 #26
For four years the country didn't have a president tavernier May 2020 #27
Joe can do WAY better- Trump's should be a prison portrait RainCaster May 2020 #28
He won't even speak to the Speaker of the house during a major crisis because he tblue37 May 2020 #31
President Obama will return to the White House at the invitation of President Biden for sure. NNadir May 2020 #32
@2pm, 1/20/21 TheCowsCameHome May 2020 #33

Bettie

(16,049 posts)
1. My guess is that he'll order that
Tue May 19, 2020, 08:12 AM
May 2020

the portrait not be hung.

Because he really is that petty.

Unprecedented? Yeah, so? He does what he wants and has an army of enablers to make it so.

FM123

(10,052 posts)
11. Great pic!
Tue May 19, 2020, 08:36 AM
May 2020

Reminds me of something tweeted at trump yesterday: your eventual tomb will see more urine than a stadium bathroom...

FM123

(10,052 posts)
6. Wow. There could not be a smaller or pettier man sitting in our White House.
Tue May 19, 2020, 08:16 AM
May 2020

Can't wait til that pathetic excuse for a human being is gone!

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
8. These kind of petty things from the thing makes me smile...
Tue May 19, 2020, 08:25 AM
May 2020

The reason for the smile?

Because it clearly eats at him daily that Obama is respected like he will NEVER be, EVER.
Suck on it Trump...let that acid boil in your stomach and hopefully turn to a bleeding ulcer...

TheBlackAdder

(28,154 posts)
15. I laugh at this, because it's showing the festering within Trump's brain. Obama pays zero rent.
Tue May 19, 2020, 08:58 AM
May 2020

.

As long as there are those mental strings attached, Trump will never be free.

Obama has control and power over him without doing a thing.

.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
13. Trump's Portrait Ceremony hosted by President Biden
Tue May 19, 2020, 08:53 AM
May 2020

Could be done the same day as a federal court sentences him to 20 years to life for the crime spree he and his family have engaged in since the 1970's.

The Picture of Donaldian Gray. Throw it in the attic. We already know what evil looks like.

totodeinhere

(13,056 posts)
30. I think you are being a bit too optimistic about Trump's legal future.
Tue May 19, 2020, 12:13 PM
May 2020

With the resources available to him he would probably be able to tie any legal matters up in court indefinitely. I doubt if he would have been sentenced to any prison term by the time his portrait is unveiled. But I agree that seeing him in prison is a feel good fantasy but I doubt if it would happen any time soon.

tman

(983 posts)
16. You guys don't actually think Obama would've attended, do you??
Tue May 19, 2020, 09:02 AM
May 2020

He isn't a chump and I highly doubt he was waiting for an invite. lol

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
22. Of course Pres Obama would go. He's not scared or worried about Trump. He would wear a face mask.
Tue May 19, 2020, 09:49 AM
May 2020

Igel

(35,268 posts)
29. Why not?
Tue May 19, 2020, 12:07 PM
May 2020

It's tradition and part of being a statesman.

That traditions have been routinely broken in the last few years makes breaking this one seem almost traditional, now.

dustyscamp

(2,223 posts)
20. Trump keeps breaking all these traditions and getting away with crimes past Presidents were punished
Tue May 19, 2020, 09:39 AM
May 2020

I don't even know if the November election will play out normally with Trump's corrupt people at the healm

tavernier

(12,363 posts)
27. For four years the country didn't have a president
Tue May 19, 2020, 11:30 AM
May 2020

so Biden will have to mount an empty frame between Obama’s picture and the place for his own.

RainCaster

(10,790 posts)
28. Joe can do WAY better- Trump's should be a prison portrait
Tue May 19, 2020, 11:53 AM
May 2020

And it needs to be true. DFT must be held accountable for all his corruption & traitorous actions while in office. The portrait of DFT must show him behind bars, and it needs to be true. History must record him as the most corrupt vile evil president of all time. His portrait in the White House should be no exception.

Orange is the new black.

tblue37

(65,193 posts)
31. He won't even speak to the Speaker of the house during a major crisis because he
Tue May 19, 2020, 12:16 PM
May 2020

is mad at her. The president is a pissy child.

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