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highplainsdem

(59,985 posts)
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 03:02 PM Dec 17

Trump disparages presidential foes in plaques attached to White House

Source: USA Today

The White House this week added plaques featuring brief biographical write-ups below photos of the former presidents on the Trump's "Walk of Fame," which was installed along the West Wing's colonnade in September.

Some of the biographies read like standard historical summaries, only with slight Trump twists. John F. Kennedy's plaque refers to the 35th president's "painful setback" from the "failed Bay of Pigs Invasion." The plaque for Harry S Truman calls the Democratic president's domestic agenda, known as the Fair Deal, a "so-called Fair Deal."

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"Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American history," reads Biden's plaque, which is situated below a photo of an autopen in place of Biden, the 46th president.

Barack Obama's plaque refers to "Barack Hussein Obama" and calls him "one of the most divisive political figures in American History." It goes on to say Obama passed "the highly ineffectual 'Unaffordable' Care Act," while also taking a shot on Obama's foreign policy with Iran.

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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/17/trump-disparages-presidential-foes-plaques-walk-fame/87812986007/



Karoline Leavitt issued a statement calling these "eloquent descriptions" and added, "As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself."

Image from the reporter who wrote the story above, posted on X:

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Trump disparages presidential foes in plaques attached to White House (Original Post) highplainsdem Dec 17 OP
Man, those Epstein files must be really nasty bad GusBob Dec 17 #1
And don't forget, Jack Smith is testifying today... SheltieLover Dec 17 #34
Let's be clear: a lot of journalists think this is hilarious Prairie Gates Dec 17 #2
Shame them to their faces. Kid Berwyn Dec 18 #65
Trump is a student of history?! (n/t) PJMcK Dec 17 #3
Haha. markodochartaigh Dec 17 #9
Uh-huh William Seger Dec 17 #17
Of course they were written by that orange POS. sinkingfeeling Dec 17 #4
America's smallest president (nt) William Seger Dec 17 #5
Yep, he's microscopic, like a pathogen. Dave Bowman Dec 17 #31
He's a pathogen alright. He's like MRSA - methicillin resistant staph aureus. 3catwoman3 Dec 17 #58
Did you ever imagine you'd see anything like this in your lifetime? Trump is fucking nuts. Vinca Dec 17 #6
I'm 81 and I never dreamed of seeing days like this. TheCowsCameHome Dec 17 #56
His staff knows he's opening himself up to truthisfreedom Dec 17 #7
And the American people are paying for this nonsense, adding injury to insult. (n/t) thesquanderer Dec 17 #8
Another day another low MaineBlueBear Dec 17 #10
Not The Onion? JudyM Dec 17 #11
PIG Totally Tunsie Dec 17 #12
Trump has taken his slime and set it in bronze. C_U_L8R Dec 17 #13
JFC, he's so vinddictive! electric_blue68 Dec 17 #14
TSF is smearing feces on the walls before he leaves the WH. Sogo Dec 17 #15
The next President GigiLeigh Dec 17 #16
I refuse to capitolize the word president until the current one is replaced by someone deserving that respect (nt) William Seger Dec 17 #19
I refuse to capitolize, "trump" Bayard Dec 17 #23
I prefer #rump (nt) William Seger Dec 17 #29
I try to use the same practice. yellow dahlia Dec 17 #52
Dumpster Ceremony? JawJaw Dec 18 #66
They are letting a senile old man write on the walls with a gold crayon. God help us all. bluedigger Dec 17 #18
You can't make this orange shit up. twodogsbarking Dec 17 #20
Yes dear, we know these are his thoughts though sheshe2 Dec 17 #21
Doesn't one need to be literate to be a student of anything, especially history? SheltieLover Dec 17 #36
Can Biden and Obama sue? Ziggysmom Dec 17 #22
That's the first thing I thought about, too... slightlv Dec 17 #38
They're public figures. cab67 Dec 18 #70
The verbiage on the plaques are classic Toilet Tweets while he's jacked up on the crushed Adderall he snorted. johnnyplankton Dec 17 #24
The write up for Ford reads like a 7th grade last minute Wikipedia based report underpants Dec 17 #53
Isn't the White House supposed to be apolitical? Bayard Dec 17 #25
Don't worry... trump has decimated the tourist trade... we'll have no more of those slightlv Dec 17 #39
This clenches it; Karoliar Lievitt is nutty as a fruitcake! ShazzieB Dec 17 #26
I'm Now Certain That ScoutHikerDad Dec 17 #32
I call her Karoline Levitate. yellow dahlia Dec 17 #55
The orange imbecile is sick in the head. Americanme Dec 17 #27
Deplorable, and he's only... Mike Nelson Dec 17 #28
There really unforgivable thing about this is FalloutShelter Dec 17 #30
WTAF? SheltieLover Dec 17 #33
What does it says about Nixon? That compared to Pedonnie he was an amateur crook? Dave Bowman Dec 17 #35
Sounds about right. SheltieLover Dec 17 #37
Compared to trump and today's republicans, slightlv Dec 17 #40
Worst President ever? Dubya thanks God every day for Trump's election Norrrm Dec 17 #41
Beyond pathetic. (nt) Paladin Dec 17 #42
Shame! mahina Dec 17 #43
Those will be gone when he is. Figarosmom Dec 17 #44
Sick puppy orangecrush Dec 17 #45
Jr. High yearbook style 🤨 Devilsun Dec 17 #46
About Clinton and W Bush... Polybius Dec 17 #47
The president is, mentally, a tween. cab67 Dec 17 #48
I honestly do not understand how Trump can just rewrite history and there's nothing to stop him. hamsterjill Dec 17 #49
Holy shit why doesn't he just fucking die already? Orrex Dec 17 #50
Like all of us, Dyedinthewoolliberal Dec 17 #51
More Wasted Taxpayers Money eringer Dec 17 #54
He is such a petty little mean child kimbutgar Dec 17 #57
It's like... HuskyOffset Dec 17 #59
He is one sick man.. Playingmantis Dec 17 #60
Smearing his shit on the White House walls orangecrush Dec 17 #61
Every day I wonder how low he will go. sellitman Dec 17 #62
This is so shameful. How can it even be allowed?? riversedge Dec 17 #63
Putin and the FSB are rolling on the floor laughing at us... spudspud Dec 18 #64
Good Grief! Who would go along with this to make and install this rubbish?! We'll never see this again: Rhiannon12866 Dec 18 #67
He is truly... COL Mustard Dec 18 #68
The only thing missing is Trump's Sharpie-graffiti: adding Hitler mustaches,devil horns & eyeglasses to the portraits. QueerDuck Dec 18 #69

GusBob

(8,123 posts)
1. Man, those Epstein files must be really nasty bad
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 03:13 PM
Dec 17

Thats the message I'm getting from this mess

markodochartaigh

(5,024 posts)
9. Haha.
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 03:40 PM
Dec 17

While, as a registered nurse, I'm no longer considered a professional, I can now be considered a student of particle physics. I know as much about particle physics as Trump knows about history.

3catwoman3

(28,579 posts)
58. He's a pathogen alright. He's like MRSA - methicillin resistant staph aureus.
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 09:27 PM
Dec 17

Very dangerous, resistant to usual cures/treatments, and can kill you.

truthisfreedom

(23,515 posts)
7. His staff knows he's opening himself up to
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 03:31 PM
Dec 17

centuries of future ridicule as a mad king. Centuries and centuries.

C_U_L8R

(48,863 posts)
13. Trump has taken his slime and set it in bronze.
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 04:04 PM
Dec 17

These should be Smithsonian exhibits illustrating exactly how depraved Trump was.

GigiLeigh

(196 posts)
16. The next President
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 04:21 PM
Dec 17

Needs to destroy this stupid Wall of Shame first thing. Remove all the tacky gold and Oval Office sign and then move directly to his disgusting ballroom. What an effing disgrace he his. This is so unbelievably childish. This is a public building that heads of state visit and he has this petty grievance crap up for all to see. What a national embarrassment. I couldn't possibly hate him more!

William Seger

(12,209 posts)
19. I refuse to capitolize the word president until the current one is replaced by someone deserving that respect (nt)
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 04:27 PM
Dec 17

yellow dahlia

(4,523 posts)
52. I try to use the same practice.
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 08:54 PM
Dec 17

Plus - I call him the grifter instead. And I call it the take over or the regime...not an administration.

JawJaw

(739 posts)
66. Dumpster Ceremony?
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 01:47 AM
Dec 18

1 Rip out all of his gold, Trumpy crap and throw it in dumpsters on the White House lawn.

2 The next POTUS to set fire to the lot in a ceremonial act of national cauterization.

3 Send the bill to Trump.

sheshe2

(95,849 posts)
21. Yes dear, we know these are his thoughts though
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 04:44 PM
Dec 17
"As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself."


I very much doubt the village idiot wrote that himself. He is a certifiably insane man, who is unable to control his sphincter, bladder or mouth. He just spews incoherent BS.

slightlv

(7,438 posts)
38. That's the first thing I thought about, too...
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 06:16 PM
Dec 17

everyone who's been maligned, demeaned, and misrepresented by rump on this "walk of fame" should be able to sue for at least defamation of character. However, beyond using one's common sense and sense of decency, how would you prove anything in a court of law? I'm not one who thinks this is childish; it is beyond childish. It is evil, misrepresentative, untruthful, and uncouth. We might excuse some of this if it came from a book report from a 2nd grader, but from a grown man? No way. Calling it "childish" just works to normalize it as "typical trump" and everyone's let him get away with crap because all we've done up to now is normalize stupid sh*t like this. Call it out for the petty, vindictive, lying crap that it is.

johnnyplankton

(603 posts)
24. The verbiage on the plaques are classic Toilet Tweets while he's jacked up on the crushed Adderall he snorted.
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 04:56 PM
Dec 17

Very Presidential

Bayard

(28,548 posts)
25. Isn't the White House supposed to be apolitical?
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 04:57 PM
Dec 17

This garbage is rethuglican/trump campaigning. How embarrassing for tourists.

slightlv

(7,438 posts)
39. Don't worry... trump has decimated the tourist trade... we'll have no more of those
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 06:17 PM
Dec 17

"foreigners" on our soil to worry about.

ShazzieB

(22,206 posts)
26. This clenches it; Karoliar Lievitt is nutty as a fruitcake!
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 05:00 PM
Dec 17
Karoline Leavitt issued a statement calling these "eloquent descriptions" and added, "As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself."


Schlump is a student of history?! Give me a freaking break! That ignoramus isn't a student of anything except his own ego!

ScoutHikerDad

(89 posts)
32. I'm Now Certain That
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 05:08 PM
Dec 17

Before the rapist felon and his demented thugs are removed from our White House, they will loot and all but destroy it. The next Democratic administration will have to spend all four years undoing all the damage they have done.

Americanme

(375 posts)
27. The orange imbecile is sick in the head.
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 05:01 PM
Dec 17

And anybody who approved, manufactured, or installed these is not much better.

Mike Nelson

(10,912 posts)
28. Deplorable, and he's only...
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 05:03 PM
Dec 17

... just beginning. As much as I oppose VP Vance, I would support his becoming President after the midterms.

FalloutShelter

(14,183 posts)
30. There really unforgivable thing about this is
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 05:04 PM
Dec 17

How the rest of the world sees us now. Lower every single day.

SheltieLover

(76,754 posts)
33. WTAF?
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 05:10 PM
Dec 17

So sobby is jealous of Joe because Joe is literate (the auto pen), and Barack because ... he wore a tan suit?

slightlv

(7,438 posts)
40. Compared to trump and today's republicans,
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 06:21 PM
Dec 17

Nixon was a leftist... or, at least, a Centrist. Hell, not even sainted Ronald Reagan could pass muster with today's maga crowd! That's one reason why, IMO, we have to work to delegitimize the Republican Party when we have control of the government once again. They are so extremist, including egging on violent extremism from their members, that they should first and foremost be designated as a terrorist organization who has committed treason against the United States.

Figarosmom

(9,737 posts)
44. Those will be gone when he is.
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 07:17 PM
Dec 17

Only MAGA will believe any of that. It's too bad how childish it is doesn't enter their heads.

Polybius

(21,509 posts)
47. About Clinton and W Bush...
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 08:34 PM
Dec 17
The plaque for Bill Clinton credits the 42nd president ‒ along with Republicans in Congress ‒ for an economic boom in the 1990s, but it also mentions "scandals that plagued his presidency." The Clinton write-up concludes with the line "In 2016, President Clinton’s wife, Hillary Clinton, lost the Presidency to President Donald J. Trump!"


The plaque for Bush, whose family never embraced Trump and the MAGA movement, says the younger Bush's presidency was "largely defined by the events of Sept. 11, 2001." It also says Bush "started wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which should not have happened."


Seems like Clinton is his favorite recent President. At least over the rest.

hamsterjill

(16,979 posts)
49. I honestly do not understand how Trump can just rewrite history and there's nothing to stop him.
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 08:45 PM
Dec 17

I know I'm preaching to the choir here. But something needs to be put into place to safeguard "the people's house". The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It belongs to "we the people". A resident - ANY resident - shouldn't be able to change the history of that building. Any changes made by any president to that building should be in the private living quarters and perhaps the staffing offices. Nothing more.

All of this stuff costs money. Who is paying for these plaques, etc.???

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(16,186 posts)
51. Like all of us,
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 08:52 PM
Dec 17

I am out of fucks to give about DJT. What a fucking asshole. A third grader. A bully. An insecure man-baby. I'm not sure karma exists but if it does, what did we all do to get this steaming pile of excrement as our President?

eringer

(513 posts)
54. More Wasted Taxpayers Money
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 08:56 PM
Dec 17

Future candidates for the Presidential dumpster along with the felon’s gold cha chi.

riversedge

(79,381 posts)
63. This is so shameful. How can it even be allowed??
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 11:25 PM
Dec 17

This is so shameful. How can it even be allowed??




White House installs plaques mocking former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-installs-plaques-mocking-former-presidents-barack-obama-jo-rcna249746?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

The Biden plaque refers to him as “Sleepy Joe Biden” and calls him “the worst President in American History.”
Presidential plaques line a wall
New plaques of explanatory text have been placed underneath presidential portraits on the Colonnade at the White House.Alex Brandon / AP


Dec. 17, 2025, 4:18 PM CST
By Sarah Dean, Garrett Haake, Alexandra Bacallao and Rebecca Shabad

WASHINGTON — The White House has installed plaques on the exterior of the building bashing President Donald Trump's predecessors, including Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, and promoting disinformation about their administrations.

The plaques were hung up below presidential portraits that have been on display on Trump’s recently added "Presidential Walk of Fame" in the White House colonnade.

The one placed under the portrait of the “Autopen," which stands in for President Joe Biden's portrait, refers to him as “Sleepy Joe Biden” and calls him “the worst President in American History.” The plaque contains a number of derisive statements about the former president, referring to Biden’s “severe mental decline,” “the Biden Crime Family” and his “Radical Left handlers."

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told NBC News in a statement that Trump wrote the text of "many" of the plaques.

“The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind," she said. "As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself.”..................................

Rhiannon12866

(250,127 posts)
67. Good Grief! Who would go along with this to make and install this rubbish?! We'll never see this again:
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 02:03 AM
Dec 18

A friendly photo of a very exclusive group:

QueerDuck

(1,015 posts)
69. The only thing missing is Trump's Sharpie-graffiti: adding Hitler mustaches,devil horns & eyeglasses to the portraits.
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 06:25 AM
Dec 18
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