White House portrait ceremony may be the latest casualty of the political divide
Source: NBC
WASHINGTON 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.
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.
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LudwigPastorius
(9,140 posts)No. It will be next year.
But, I'm sure he, like most people, won't want to step foot into it before it's had a thorough steam cleaning and exorcism.
hlthe2b
(102,267 posts)I can not imagine him wanting to return to the WH with Trump there under ANY circumstances. I know I wouldn't.
MurrayDelph
(5,294 posts)One full-on, one profile.
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Cha
(297,210 posts)chwaliszewski
(1,514 posts)cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)riversedge
(70,215 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,147 posts)A portrait ceremony for Barack, and a bonfire for 45s porcine corpulent blobular waste of paint.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Namely with paintings of black shrouds with the inscription Hic est locus Donaldus Ioannes Trump incarceratus pro criminibus.
Got the idea from Venice and their handling of a Venitian Doge that went way off the rails.
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Harker
(14,018 posts)but no tongue.
Harker
(14,018 posts)EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)Harker
(14,018 posts)It's the only way I show up, unless it's to hurl my shoes.
chowder66
(9,068 posts)Paladin
(28,257 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)and as citizens of this country if it is still around, I am going to start a petition to "not pay for the traitors portrait.............Fuck that shit................next the orange hair fucker will ask to be buried at Arlington...............
Marcuse
(7,480 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)He can wait until 2021, after Trump's removal and arrest.
olddad65
(599 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)I dont know what the penalty for the previous president beating the shit out of the current one is, but that is the only reason President Obama should be within 500 feet of President 021.