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The official portraits of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were removed from the Grand Foyer of the White House within the last week, aides told CNN, and replaced by those of two Republican presidents who served more than a century ago.
White House tradition calls for portraits of the most recent American presidents to be given the most prominent placement, in the entrance of the executive mansion, visible to guests during official events.
That was the case through at least July 8, when President Donald Trump welcomed Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The two stood in the Cross Hall of the White House and made remarks, with the portraits of Clinton and Bush essentially looking on as they had been throughout Trump's first term.
But in the days after after that, the Clinton and Bush portraits were moved into the Old Family Dining Room, a small, rarely used room that is not seen by most visitor
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Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)He will be remembered as a mistake. Someone people voted against.
Walleye
(31,030 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Then maybe accidents happen, it falls on the ground face down and is kicked around
maybe lands up under one of the dumpsters and the frame breaks, it falls apart
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Make a puckered, open pie-hole, and trump's portrait is done. Put it next to a laundry chute.
tanyev
(42,583 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)and hunch the posture over and shorten the hands. Oh, just forget it; it's an insult to Magritte.