Biden to host Obamas in September for White House portrait ceremony Trump shunned

[demmiblue]

Source: NBC

President Joe Biden will host former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama at the White House in early September for the unveiling of their official White House portraits, according to an Obama spokesperson.

The traditional East Room ceremony unveiling the Obamas’ portraits, usually a moment where the sitting president and the first lady fête their immediate predecessors, was put off while then-President Donald Trump was in office given the bitter, estranged relationship between the two men.

Because of the Covid pandemic, the event was further delayed after Biden took office last year. It's typically held indoors in the East Room of the White House.

The Obamas are scheduled to appear with Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Sept. 7, the Obama spokesperson said Thursday. The artists who painted the former first couple will also be revealed at that time, as has been tradition for presidential portrait unveilings since the ritual began decades ago.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-host-obamas-white-house-portrait-ceremony-trump-shunned-rcna40493

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. TFG was an asshole with respect to the Obama portrait

[Cha]

4. A jealous Bloated Putin Puppet Asshole.

Focus!
Please Fight to Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!

[underpants]

5. He also refused to have the traditional transition visit

He was busy throwing a fit about losing.

[WestMichRad]

15. TFG is an asshole with many things.

FIFY!

[Wounded Bear]

27. The first 4 words said it all, really...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

34. Was and still is an asshole.

[LiberalFighter]

2. They should microwave the orange baboon's portrait.

[KS Toronado]

8. His portrait

should be an orange cartoon character leading a charge against the Capitol.
And yelling "Hang my Vice President"

[vlyons]

22. How about a Trump portrait of him

watching the attack on TV? With a big double whopper with cheese in his hand. An historic portrait.

[rurallib]

25. I'd like one with the traitor in an orange jumpsuit behind bars.

[2naSalit]

29. Whatever it is...

It should be hung in the men's bathroom.

[davepdx]

39. I've always thought that it should hang behind the WH dumpsters.

[2naSalit]

41. Even better!

[jmowreader]

31. Not at all

Do a portrait from the back of him with a huge ketchup stain on the wall and a pile of broken china and fast food on the floor right below it.

[KS Toronado]

46. Don't forget the brown stain on the back of his pants

toilet paper hanging onto his shoe would be a nice touch also.
Where are the Editorial Cartoonists when we need them?

[CrispyQ]

9. Put a frame around the ketchup on the wall. -nt

[calimary]

45. That'd work.

Here’s my other suggestion:

[smb]

51. They Should Use A Mug Shot For Chump's Portrait nt

[Cha]

3. Brilliant!💕

Focus!
Please Fight to Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!

[Kid Berwyn]

6. No fair! What about Beenadick Pisswig's pitcher?

[2naSalit]

30. Belongs in the latrine!

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Beenadick Pisswig

[3auld6phart]

42. For sure

I like it President Bentdick Pisswig.That feckin’ piece
of filth should never been POTUS. What an embarrassment.

[Blue Owl]

44. Bwah!

The hands gotta be smaller — waaaay smaller….

[EmmaLee E]

52. Great Britain wouldn't take us

Maybe Russia

[maxsolomon]

7. Dump doesn't deserve a WH Portrait, period.

But one assumes Biden will extend the invitation as expected. I wouldn't expect Dump to accept.

He's great at insulting people who aren't there, but he's afraid of actual confrontation.

[jaxexpat]

16. It would be permissible to me for Biden to shun TFG from all "traditional" events.

It would be permissible to me if all and any future presidents were to celebrate TFG by holding a "fools" ball wherein everyone wears costumes to mock TFG utilizing all available manners of poor taste.

[MontanaMama]

10. I would say that it was TFG who was bitter.

PBO and Mrs. Obama were out living their best lives with no evidence of being bitter.

[yonder]

28. +1. That stuck out for me also.

[happy feet]

49. Yup.

So sick of the both sides guilty media crap. The Obamas graciously met and led them into the White House and attended his inauguration. He did none of that for Biden.

[keithbvadu2]

11. Nomination for Donald/Melania official portraits

[70sEraVet]

19. It would be appropriate for any portrait of the buffoon to have Epstein in the background

Just to make sure future generations understand the immoral character of the man.

[SergeStorms]

12. Yes! Long, long overdue.

[onecaliberal]

13. WOOT WOOT. So happy to hear this.

[cab67]

14. TFG's portrait should never besmirch any part of the White House.

Its presence would be disrespectful to the country.

I hope no formal presidential portrait is ever commissioned for that sack of shit.

[BigmanPigman]

17. TFG's portrait should be a reproduction of his mugshot.

Wishful thinking on my part.

[iluvtennis]

18. tfg is such a petty bastard.

[NBachers]

20. "Given the bitter, estranged relationship between the two men?" Where do I send a hearty

“FUCK YOU!” to whoever wrote that statement? So it was half Obama’s fault that there was no portrait unveiling during the trump years?

[DeeDeeNY]

47. Excellent point

False equivalency. Once again.

[Rhiannon12866]

21. Great news - and long past time!

[Hekate]

23. Grand. We have a gentleman back in the WH.

[Novara]

24. NBC, don't you DARE both-sides this!

the bitter, estranged relationship between the two men.

ONE SIDE couldn't be gracious. ONE.

[SunSeeker]

38. Right? So infuriating!

[Generic Brad]

26. Trump has self portraits smeared all over the White House

Word is he frequently flung food at the wall in anger like an undisciplined primate.

[barbtries]

32. I will be pissed

if President Biden allows a portrait of his predecessor in the WH. History should always record his presidency with an asterisk.

[Bristlecone]

33. As he should be

Shunned for all things, at all times

[OneCrazyDiamond]

35. I recall it the other way around.

Former President Obama shunned the orange child.
I read he preemptively refused any invite.

[Pinback]

36. Trump's portrait should be

the cake Kymberli Talton made for the Nailed It! TV baking competition.

[SunSeeker]

37. This makes me happy.

[Historic NY]

40. Looks like the trump will never have a portrait unveiling.

Who would invite him back

[Crowman2009]

43. I hope they replace the orange bastard's portrait in the WH with a blank canvas.

[DFW]

48. Bill Clinton was so busy, the White House had to ask me to stand in for him while posing for his

You think I'm kidding?

?

[Rhiannon12866]

53. Cool photo, LOL

Bill Clinton is the only POTUS I've ever seen in person. He came to the district to campaign for our Democratic Congressional candidate - not only is he a brilliant speaker, but I believe he was the reason for unseating a long time incumbent Republican.

[DFW]

54. We couldn't resist!

My brother and I were at the White House, and we paused in front of the official Clinton portrait, and said, we GOTTA do this!

Obama was still president, and I didn't yet have a phone that could take good photos, so I posed, and he took the pic.

Bill Clinton is indeed a brilliant speaker. He owns the room the moment he steps up to the podium. I was sitting right in front of him at the Gridiron dinner in 1995, and if he had said he was about to declare war on the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, a number of the people there would probably have believed him before the others broke out in laughter.

[Rhiannon12866]

55. So fortunate that you now have that pic!

And in this Republican-leaning district, it was SRO to see and hear an actual POTUS. His speech was brilliant and inspired the crowd, and he was gracious and friendly. The local paper had said that the incumbent Republican (now disgraced John Sweeney) could "have the job for life" if he wanted it. But I truly believe that President Clinton convinced the voters otherwise...

[DFW]

56. Any Democratic candidate fortunate enough to have Bill Clinton strump for him or her in person

That candidate got an incalculable boost every time.

[niyad]

50. Hey, nbc, it is Dr. Jill Biden.

[Midwestern Democrat]

57. Before the disgrace of January 6, I was certain that Biden would invite Trump to have his portrait

ceremony at some point in the first term - not that Biden WANTED to do it (and would have been quite happy if Trump turned the invite down), but he would extend the invite just to re-establish decorum and show that he was the better man; I think January 6 ended any possibility that this would happen in the first term.