President Donald Trump's exhibit of previous presidents at the West Wing of the White House now has a new addition — plaques that include negative commentary written in Trump's voice.
On Wednesday, USA TODAY White House correspondent Joey Garrison tweeted images from Trump's "Presidential Walk of Fame" that show new plaques under images of past Democratic presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Both plaques include a plethora of insults of both presidents that include Trump's signature style of oddly placed capital letters.
The plaque for Biden (which is under not a portrait of Biden but a photo of the presidential autopen) used Trump's denigrating moniker "Sleepy Joe Biden" and called him "the worst President in American History" who won the "most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States." The plaque further alleges that Biden "caused the highest Inflation ever recorded."
Under Obama's portrait, the plaque claims that the 44th president of the United States was "one of the most divisive political figures in American History" who "presided over a stagnant Economy." The plaque also claims that Obama "weaponized the IRS and Federal bureaucracies against his political opponents" and "presided over the creation of the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, the worst political scandal in American History."
Condemnation from social media was swift and immediate from both sides of the political aisle. American University alumnus Brian Thomas called the display "incredibly crass and low-class." Canadian communications consultant Greg MacEachern sarcastically described it as "very adult." Former CNN host John Harwood quipped: "The incumbent president is mentally ill."
"Staggering level of pettiness and grade-school immaturity," tweeted former Kentucky Republican state senator Whitney Westerfield. "Once again, right on brand from this President. Once again, a stain on the honor and dignity of the office of the presidency, and further driving the decline in our national civic decorum. A shame."
"What a bunch of children," observed Maryland-based sports commentator Paul Douglas. "The funny thing is all the insults and skits and bits will never fill the infinite chasm in Trump's soul. Twice elected the most powerful person on the planet and yet still the most insecure person in human history.
"It takes a special kind of thinned-skinned loser to drive stuff like this," tweeted tech and digital media lawyer Josh King.
"Handing the keys to the worst humans imaginable in this administration continues to humiliate," civil attorney Daniel Aguilar wrote.
