Dec 17, 2025
Months after President Donald Trump refashioned a West Wing walkway into what he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame, he has added partisan and subjective plaques to the display, deepening his fingerprints on the White Houses ae sthetic and continuing his effort to bend the telling of history to his liking.From Sleepy Joe Biden references to painting Republican icon Ronald Reagan as a fan of a young Trump, the plaques include bombastic language written in Trumpian style. The installation is the Republican president's latest move to shape the White House in his image, an effort that has spanned from adorning the Oval Office to razing the East Wing in preparation for a massive ballroom addition.An introductory plaque tells passersby that the Presidential Walk of Fame was "conceived, built, and dedicated by President Donald J. Trump as a tribute to past Presidents, good, bad, and somewhere in the middle. Bidens plaque repeats false claims that the 46th president, a Democrat, took office as a result of the most corrupt election ever, when, in fact, he defeated Trump in 2020 in both the popular vote and the Electoral College. Biden is also described as by far, the worst president in American history.Another Democrat, Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president and Trump's first presidential predecessor, is labeled one of the most divisive political figures in American history.The plaque below former President George W. Bushs portrait appears to approve of the Republican's creation of the Department of Homeland Security but decries that he started wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which should not have happened.RELATED STORY | Trump pardons former Colorado elections clerk, but it alone won't free her from prisonWhite House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the texts are eloquently written descriptions of each president and that many were written directly by the President himself.Biden had no comment on his plaque. There were no immediate responses to emails sent to aides for Obama and several other former presidents.Trump in September refashioned the colonnade that runs from the West Wing to the White House residence with gilded portraits of all former presidents, except for Biden. Trump instead chose an autopen, reflecting his mockery of Bidens age and assertions that Biden was not up to the job.RELATED STORY | Trump sues BBC for $10 billion, accusing it of defamation over editing of president's Jan. 6 speechThe display runs on the wall of the colonnade between the White House residence and the presidents usual entrance to the Oval Office, meaning Trump can take any of his preferred guests foreign dignitaries included on a tour of the exhibit with his framing of his predecessors.The introductory plaque also presumes that Trumps addition will stay intact once he is no longer president: The Presidential Walk of Fame will long live as a testament and tribute to the Greatness of America. ...read more read less
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