Trump disparages presidential foes in plaques attached to White House

[highplainsdem]

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/

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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:

[GusBob]

1. Man, those Epstein files must be really nasty bad

Thats the message I'm getting from this mess

[SheltieLover]

34. And don't forget, Jack Smith is testifying today...

[Prairie Gates]

2. Let's be clear: a lot of journalists think this is hilarious

It's an absolute disgrace.

[Kid Berwyn]

65. Shame them to their faces.

Traitors as big as trump.

[PJMcK]

3. Trump is a student of history?! (n/t)

[markodochartaigh]

9. Haha.

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.

[William Seger]

17. Uh-huh

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Of course they were written by that orange POS.

[William Seger]

5. America's smallest president (nt)

[Dave Bowman]

31. Yep, he's microscopic, like a pathogen.

[3catwoman3]

58. He's a pathogen alright. He's like MRSA - methicillin resistant staph aureus.

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

[Vinca]

6. Did you ever imagine you'd see anything like this in your lifetime? Trump is fucking nuts.

[TheCowsCameHome]

56. I'm 81 and I never dreamed of seeing days like this.

This fucker HAS GOT TO GO. NOW.

[truthisfreedom]

7. His staff knows he's opening himself up to

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

[thesquanderer]

8. And the American people are paying for this nonsense, adding injury to insult. (n/t)

[MaineBlueBear]

10. Another day another low

So far; the day ain't over yet.

[JudyM]

11. Not The Onion?

Looking forward to the late night comedy bits about it, at least.

[Totally Tunsie]

12. PIG

[C_U_L8R]

13. Trump has taken his slime and set it in bronze.

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

[electric_blue68]

14. JFC, he's so vinddictive!

[Sogo]

15. TSF is smearing feces on the walls before he leaves the WH.

nt

[GigiLeigh]

16. The next President

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]

19. I refuse to capitolize the word president until the current one is replaced by someone deserving that respect (nt)

[Bayard]

23. I refuse to capitolize, "trump"

Just a little bit of personal revolt.

[William Seger]

29. I prefer #rump (nt)

[yellow dahlia]

52. I try to use the same practice.

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

[JawJaw]

66. Dumpster Ceremony?

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]

18. They are letting a senile old man write on the walls with a gold crayon. God help us all.

[twodogsbarking]

20. You can't make this orange shit up.

[sheshe2]

21. Yes dear, we know these are his thoughts though

"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.

[SheltieLover]

36. Doesn't one need to be literate to be a student of anything, especially history?

[Ziggysmom]

22. Can Biden and Obama sue?

So disgusting and CHILDISH😟!

[slightlv]

38. That's the first thing I thought about, too...

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]

70. They're public figures.

That would most likely make any lawsuit unsuccessful.

[johnnyplankton]

24. The verbiage on the plaques are classic Toilet Tweets while he's jacked up on the crushed Adderall he snorted.

Very Presidential

[underpants]

53. The write up for Ford reads like a 7th grade last minute Wikipedia based report

[Bayard]

25. Isn't the White House supposed to be apolitical?

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

[slightlv]

39. Don't worry... trump has decimated the tourist trade... we'll have no more of those

"foreigners" on our soil to worry about.

[ShazzieB]

26. This clenches it; Karoliar Lievitt is nutty as a fruitcake!

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]

32. I'm Now Certain That

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]

55. I call her Karoline Levitate.

Something out of the exorcist.

[Americanme]

27. The orange imbecile is sick in the head.

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

[Mike Nelson]

28. Deplorable, and he's only...

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

[FalloutShelter]

30. There really unforgivable thing about this is

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

[SheltieLover]

33. WTAF?

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

[Dave Bowman]

35. What does it says about Nixon? That compared to Pedonnie he was an amateur crook?

[SheltieLover]

37. Sounds about right.

Maybe a sucker & loser because he got caught?

[slightlv]

40. Compared to trump and today's republicans,

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]

41. Worst President ever? Dubya thanks God every day for Trump's election

[Paladin]

42. Beyond pathetic. (nt)

[mahina]

43. Shame!

[Figarosmom]

44. Those will be gone when he is.

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

[orangecrush]

45. Sick puppy

[Devilsun]

46. Jr. High yearbook style 🤨

[Polybius]

47. About Clinton and W Bush...

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.

[cab67]

48. The president is, mentally, a tween.

[hamsterjill]

49. I honestly do not understand how Trump can just rewrite history and there's nothing to stop him.

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]

50. Holy shit why doesn't he just fucking die already?

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

51. Like all of us,

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]

54. More Wasted Taxpayers Money

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

[kimbutgar]

57. He is such a petty little mean child

I’m disgusted reading the plaque.

[HuskyOffset]

59. It's like...

…the “Biff Tannen Museum” in Back to the Future part 2.

[Playingmantis]

60. He is one sick man..

Very sick

[orangecrush]

61. Smearing his shit on the White House walls

[sellitman]

62. Every day I wonder how low he will go.

He never disappoints.

[riversedge]

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

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.”..................................

[spudspud]

64. Putin and the FSB are rolling on the floor laughing at us...

[Rhiannon12866]

67. Good Grief! Who would go along with this to make and install this rubbish?! We'll never see this again:

A friendly photo of a very exclusive group:

[COL Mustard]

68. He is truly...

A plaque on this country. Jan. 20, 2029 can't get here soon enough.

[QueerDuck]

69. The only thing missing is Trump's Sharpie-graffiti: adding Hitler mustaches,devil horns & eyeglasses to the portraits.