Newsmax Host Scoffs at Rosa Parks Bust in Biden's Oval Office: 'Identity Politics'

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Newsmax Host Scoffs at Rosa Parks Bust in Biden’s Oval Office: ‘Identity Politics’
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Rob Finnerty also complained about the bad rap that Trail of Tears-leading President Andrew Jackson has gotten from the “left-leaning media.”

Updated Jan. 22, 2021 6:29PM ET / Published Jan. 22, 2021 4:07PM ET


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Former President Donald Trump made a big show of placing the bust behind his desk four years ago, especially given the amount of backlash his predecessor Barack Obama received from conservatives for not displaying the small statue in his Oval Office. Besides removing the Churchill bust, Biden has also added busts of Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, and Latino labor and civil-rights activist César Chávez.

During Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax morning show Wake Up America, Finnerty and his co-host Rachel Rollar groused about the new president’s White House redesign, framing it—of course—as Biden trying to erase “our heritage.”

Finnerty first noted that Biden apparently got rid of a painting of President Andrew Jackson, adding that “President Trump liked the Andrew Jackson stuff because Andrew Jackson was a populist outsider who became president.”

At the same time, while admitting Jackson had a “bad legacy with the Trail of Tears,” he criticized the “left-leaning media” for saying the seventh U.S. commander-in-chief was a “terrible, terrible president.” The Newsmax anchor huffed, “And it’s just he—it was because he was a populist, an outsider. Like Donald J. Trump.”

Roller did acknowledge that the Biden administration is “allowed to re-design the room however they want,” before saying it is “always interesting” to see what new presidents change.

“We now have a bust of Rosa Parks in the Oval Office as well,” she stated.

“Yeah, well, it’s the administration of identity politics starting their second full day today,” Finnerty scoffed. “So it’s—we expected this but the criticism will not stop for the next four years of our previous president.”

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1. LOL, whut?

Pro-Trump Rioters Tear Down American Flag, Replace it With Trump Flag at U.S. Capitol Building

Thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to protest the president's loss in the 2020 election

By Morgan Smith and Virginia Chamlee January 06, 2021 05:35 PM

Rioters have ripped an American flag off of a flagpole outside the United States Capitol building and replaced it with a Trump flag as thousands of pro-Trump agitators descended on the Capitol Wednesday protesting his loss in the 2020 election.

Huffington Post reporter Igor Bobic captured the moment a group of people climbed scaffolding to the second floor of the building where an American flag was hung. One of the men tore down the flag and threw it to to the ground, inciting cheers and applause from some watching. He then attempted to replace it with a Trump flag.

https://people.com/politics/pro-trump-rioters-tear-down-american-flag-replace-with-trump-flag-at-u-s-capitol-building/

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2. Headline doesn't match the twitter post

Very confusing