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Trump is refusing to unveil Obama's portrait at the White House, breaking a 40-year tradition.
President Donald Trump won't be unveiling former President Barack Obama's portrait at the White House, breaking a 40-year tradition, NBC News reported on Tuesday.
Obama would also not be interested in attending such an event, according to the report, which cited people familiar with the matter.
The White House and a representative for Obama did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.
For decades, first-term presidents have held ceremonies in the East Room to unveil the portraits of their immediate predecessors. Obama did so for former President George W. Bush in 2012, for example.
No doubt about it, whatsoever, this is yet another reason why Trump supporters so strongly believe that Trump is the best president in the history of the United States.
Is there anything Trump does they won't feel compelled to defend and justify
What Trump did was what petulant children would do, but why bend over backwards to defend it?
If you were visiting a family friend, and your kid throws their their cat off the balcony, would you apologize, or would you try to argue it was a perfectly fine thing to do?
Trump is such a small, small man who will forever be obsessed with his hatred for Obama. That's what happens when you follow after a man who was incredibly popular with Americans and the world. He can't accept that, so he has to act out like the three year old that he is.
Obama's "incredible" popularity wore off fast. As soon as the following lies became universally exposed:
-if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor
-if you like your healthcare coverage, you can keep you coverage
-it will cost you less money
Obama's and Trump's popularity are quite similar through 3.5 yrs of their 1st terms.
Today, American's pay through the nose for healthcare because Obama made it worse instead of better. Most are paying TWICE what they paid prior to 2008, and premiums are outpacing inflation. Millions are w/o coverage because they can't afford it. At the current rate of fallout, more will be uninsured soon than when Obamacare began.
Trump's emotional immaturity and pettiness know no bounds.
Don't feel like scrolling through 5 pages of responses, but I'm sure the ardent Trump supporters around here are snickering and find this to be amusing. Because many of them are petty and spiteful just like Donald himself.
Donald Trump continues to degrade the office of the president, as the portrait unveiling is a tradition that goes back to 1976. Another of many firsts for Trump, he breaks tradition of a non-partisan ceremony that goes back 44 years.
Bush did it for Reagan. Clinton did it for Bush. Bush did it for Clinton. Obama did it for Bush. As republicans and democrats traded the White House back and forth, presidents always felt that that the portrait ceremony was above politics and a good way to show unity. So of course Trump is against it.
Also, Trump is extremely jealous of how popular Obama was and still is.
It looks like Obama is huffy because President Trump eviscerated nearly the entirety of Obama's legacy in the first 18 months of his presidency.
I would imagine that all Americans are "huffy" because their President has been obsessed with lowering the many accomplishments of his predecessor, rather than just trying to do some good on his own.
It always baffles me that con-men put in more effort in their con than they would by just going about things honestly. I guess if they were smart, they wouldn't be Con-men to begin with. Wouldn't need to be.
Trump is a sad, sad man. I want to feel sorry for him, but just can't.
SAY......wasn't the guy before the one who sent back the bust of Winston Churchill to its giving country......causing speculation of "WHAT WAS HE THINKING?"
Nope. Never happened. It was moved from the Oval Office to the Treaty Room.
But someone made up that lie, trusting that you'd fall for it, and repeat it, and so you did. You have, in effect, been tricked into becoming the mouth piece for someone else's rumor. It was planned that way. They banked on you not checking. How does that make you feel?
Amazing that a body that huge can house a person that small.
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