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."
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GusBob
(8,123 posts)Thats the message I'm getting from this mess
SheltieLover
(76,754 posts)Prairie Gates
(7,181 posts)It's an absolute disgrace.
Kid Berwyn
(22,928 posts)Traitors as big as trump.
PJMcK
(24,738 posts)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.
sinkingfeeling
(57,205 posts)William Seger
(12,209 posts)Dave Bowman
(6,636 posts)3catwoman3
(28,579 posts)Very dangerous, resistant to usual cures/treatments, and can kill you.
Vinca
(53,342 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,270 posts)This fucker HAS GOT TO GO. NOW.
truthisfreedom
(23,515 posts)centuries of future ridicule as a mad king. Centuries and centuries.
thesquanderer
(12,903 posts)MaineBlueBear
(411 posts)So far; the day ain't over yet.
JudyM
(29,567 posts)Looking forward to the late night comedy bits about it, at least.
Totally Tunsie
(11,573 posts)C_U_L8R
(48,863 posts)These should be Smithsonian exhibits illustrating exactly how depraved Trump was.
electric_blue68
(25,907 posts)Sogo
(6,982 posts)nt
GigiLeigh
(196 posts)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)Bayard
(28,548 posts)Just a little bit of personal revolt.
William Seger
(12,209 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,523 posts)Plus - I call him the grifter instead. And I call it the take over or the regime...not an administration.
JawJaw
(739 posts)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.
bluedigger
(17,399 posts)twodogsbarking
(17,576 posts)sheshe2
(95,849 posts)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.
SheltieLover
(76,754 posts)Ziggysmom
(4,047 posts)So disgusting and CHILDISH😟!
slightlv
(7,438 posts)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.
cab67
(3,629 posts)That would most likely make any lawsuit unsuccessful.
johnnyplankton
(603 posts)Very Presidential
underpants
(194,865 posts)Bayard
(28,548 posts)This garbage is rethuglican/trump campaigning. How embarrassing for tourists.
slightlv
(7,438 posts)"foreigners" on our soil to worry about.
ShazzieB
(22,206 posts)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)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.
yellow dahlia
(4,523 posts)Something out of the exorcist.
Americanme
(375 posts)And anybody who approved, manufactured, or installed these is not much better.
Mike Nelson
(10,912 posts)... just beginning. As much as I oppose VP Vance, I would support his becoming President after the midterms.
FalloutShelter
(14,183 posts)How the rest of the world sees us now. Lower every single day.
SheltieLover
(76,754 posts)So sobby is jealous of Joe because Joe is literate (the auto pen), and Barack because ... he wore a tan suit?
Dave Bowman
(6,636 posts)SheltieLover
(76,754 posts)Maybe a sucker & loser because he got caught?
slightlv
(7,438 posts)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.
Norrrm
(3,987 posts)Paladin
(32,276 posts)mahina
(20,426 posts)Figarosmom
(9,737 posts)Only MAGA will believe any of that. It's too bad how childish it is doesn't enter their heads.
orangecrush
(28,309 posts)Devilsun
(359 posts)Polybius
(21,509 posts)Seems like Clinton is his favorite recent President. At least over the rest.
cab67
(3,629 posts)hamsterjill
(16,979 posts)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.???
Orrex
(66,671 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(16,186 posts)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)Future candidates for the Presidential dumpster along with the felons gold cha chi.
kimbutgar
(26,796 posts)Im disgusted reading the plaque.
HuskyOffset
(925 posts)the Biff Tannen Museum in Back to the Future part 2.
Playingmantis
(532 posts)Very sick
orangecrush
(28,309 posts)sellitman
(11,740 posts)He never disappoints.
riversedge
(79,381 posts)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 Trumps 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 Bidens 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...................................
spudspud
(639 posts)Rhiannon12866
(250,127 posts)A friendly photo of a very exclusive group:

COL Mustard
(7,985 posts)A plaque on this country. Jan. 20, 2029 can't get here soon enough.
