Bush And Clinton Portraits Returned To Prominent Display In White House | Talking Points Memo

Official presidential portraits of former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have been returned to prominent hanging locations in the Biden White House after they were removed during the Trump administration last July, CNN reported on Monday night.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1363950

The official portrait of former President Barack Obama has not yet been unveiled and it is not yet clear when or where it will be hung.

Looking forward to seeing Biden’s portrait. Harris, too, for that matter.
Stan Herd is amazing!

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moved the paintings of Clinton and Bush into the Old Family Dining Room, a small, seldom used room that is not typically seen by most visitors.

Sounds a bit dingy but actually is not.

Was used as an intimate dining room from the early 1800s until Jackie Kennedy decided otherwise. The Obamas renovated it and put up some fun art, including a couple of pieces loaned to the White House by their friends.

Trump, needless to say, had no taste in art – or in friends.

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They need to have a “two impeachment - no portrait for you” policy.

ASAP.

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Not to mention interior decorating.

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Ah yes, the new normal is… normal.

The Biggest Loser’s will be prominently displayed on US Postal Service lobby walls.

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Closely followed by https://mugshots.com/

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Didn’t Trump hold nearly all of his political dinners at his own establishments? The grift was strong in that one. The only “state dinners” I recall from the previous “administration” were when he served heaps of take-out junk food, cold in its paper and plastic wrappers, to his “honored” guests. Yet another unprecedented low, of so many.

(sorry about all the previous/privious typos!!)

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I’m OK with having Donnie prowl around for a portrait while serving his sentence.
Only the more so if his orange accoutrement and the bars keeping him from wandering off are tastefully included.

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The official portrait of former President Barack Obama has not yet been unveiled and it is not yet clear when or where it will be hung.

Well, when Chiselin’ Trump’s official portrait is unveiled, I suggest that there would be no more apprpriate place to hang it than in one of the White House bathrooms; whichever one he used most as his main office from which he sent his tweets.

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I can hope!

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I like understatement.

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Ok, but only if the hang it in the Taft “double-wide” portrait hall.

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To be honest, the only way I’d like to (not) see Trump’s portrait in the White House is if it hangs with his face to the wall, a grim reminder of the nightmare that he and his ilk put us through.

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Good for Joe…every little bit of normalcy is what we need. The Grifter has only been out of office for less than two months.

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I don’t see there’s any place else to tastefully place such a large canvas.

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How about in Lafayette Square, set up as a sort of booth where little children can throw rotten tomatoes at him?

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Meanwhile, they still haven’t figured out where to put Trump’s portrait.

I’m thinking above the urinals in the visitors’ men’s room. Might make cleaning them easier.

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It would be appropriate that he serve as a revenue stream, possibly for the USPS.
Even at a dime a pop, the demand should make the dollars add up.

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EW!!!

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