Poor bitter Obama. Remember that stupid White House portrait of him sitting in front of an ivy? That’s not the “official” portrait that will be eventually hanging in the White House. Obama refuses to attend any ceremony any ceremony to hang it in the White House until Trump is out of office. Jimmy Carter, who was previously the worst president in U.S. history before Obama came along pulled the same thing when Reagan was in office in the 1980’s.
| Bitter Obama refuses to attend White House portrait ceremony as long as Trump is in office |
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NBC’s sources said that Obama will forgo the ceremony as long as Trump is in office and is willing to potentially wait until 2025 to have his and former First Lady Michelle Obama’s portraits revealed in the East Room. The Obamas began the customary consultation process for the portraits, different from those revealed in 2018 at the National Portrait Gallery, shortly after leaving office in 2017.
This will be the first time since Ronald Reagan’s first term in office that the current president did not host his predecessor — at the time Jimmy Carter — for such an unveiling ceremony.