US EditionTrump Installs Controversial Plaques for Past Presidents
New plaques installed under presidential portraits at the White House sharply criticize Biden and Obama while praising Trump, reflecting his effort to reshape U.S. historical narrative.
- On Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, President Donald Trump installed new explanatory plaques beneath presidential portraits along the White House Colonnade, photos show the updated display.
- The broader renovation effort includes President Donald Trump refashioning the colonnade in September with gilded portraits, razing the East Wing earlier this year, and proposing a $400 million privately funded White House ballroom.
- The plaques specifically replace Biden's portrait with a framed photo of an autopen and brand him `Sleepy Joe`, while beneath Barack Obama, the text calls him `one of the most divisive political figures in American History`; both plaques mimic Trump's social-media style.
- White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the plaques as `eloquently written descriptions of each president` with many penned by the President, while Daniel Aguilar criticized the move and former presidents' aides gave no immediate responses, and Joe Biden had no comment.
- Presidential historians warn the White House Colonnade display lets Trump personally show foreign dignitaries his partisan framing, marking a departure from the White House as a unifying symbol.
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A few months after transforming a corridor in the Western Wing of the White House into what he calls the "Presidential Walk of Fame", US President Donald Trump added descriptive plaques to the exhibition, thus strengthening his imprint on the aesthetics of the building and continuing his efforts to shape history as he pleases by distributing the good and bad points to his predecessors.
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Trump Adds Bronze Plaques Mocking Biden and Obama to Presidential Walk of Fame
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Trump's White House 'Walk of Fame' takes jabs at former presidents
New plaques were spotted by reporters on Wednesday at the “Presidential Walk of Fame” along the West Wing Colonnade at the White House, in which President Trump jabs at the most recent former presidents. Former President Biden’s plaque references him as “Sleepy Joe Biden” and called him “the worst president in American history, while former [...]
Donald Trump is adding commemorative plaques under the presidential portrait in the White House. Several of them contain both insults and misinformation.
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