Trump Turns White House into ‘Tantrum Wall’ with Vicious Plaques Mocking Obama and Biden

President Donald Trump this week added new plaques under presidential portraits along the White House colonnade. The small signs do not read like neutral history notes. They use sharp language and make claims about recent presidents that officials say were written by Mr. Trump himself.

Under a portrait that stands in for President Joe Biden, the plaque calls him out by name. It says in full, “Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History,” and continues that he took office “as a result of the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States” and that “Biden oversaw a series of unprecedented disasters that brought our Nation to the brink of destruction.”

The plaque also blames Mr. Biden for economic trouble, for policy choices on climate and immigration, and for the chaotic US exit from Afghanistan. It goes on to say his “weakness” allowed Russia to invade Ukraine and allowed “Hamas terrorists [to] launch the heinous October 7th attack on Israel.” The panel also repeats an attack on Mr. Biden that the president calls “severe mental decline,” and it mocks his use of an autopen.

A nearby plaque aimed at former president Barack Obama uses a different tack but the same tone. It reads, “Barack Hussein Obama was the first Black President, a community organizer, one term Senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political figures in American History.” The text adds a claim that Mr. Obama “spied on the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Donald J. Trump, and presided over the creation of the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, the worst political scandal in American History.”

The White House press office defended the display. Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said, “The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind. As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself,” according to the statement released with the new exhibit.

Mr. Trump had hinted at the plaques in media interviews last month while showing off his redesign of the Oval Office and the colonnade. He told a Fox host the walkway would describe what each president did while in office. The new signs match the show and tell style he used in that interview.

The plaques arrive as part of a broader makeover of the White House grounds and offices this year. The administration has paved parts of the Rose Garden and moved forward with plans that include tearing down the East Wing to make room for a large ballroom. Preservation groups have sued and a judge has for now allowed work to continue under limits.

Not everyone was amused. Social media users posted sharp replies and a sampling shows the tone. One wrote, “We are not a serious country anymore.”

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