The official portraits of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, displayed so far in the entrance hall to the White House, where Donald Trump could see them daily, were removed to be placed in a little-visited room of the presidential residence, he said Friday. CNN.
According to the US network, which quotes several witnesses, Trump’s predecessors were replaced at the place of honor by two Republican presidents who were elected more than a century ago, William McKinley, assassinated in 1901, and his successor Theodore Roosevelt.
There is a tradition in the White House according to which the portraits of the most recent heads of state in the country are displayed in the best places for them to be seen by guests at official events.
This was seen on July 8 by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
But then the photographs of Bill Clinton (Democrat, president from 1993 to 2001) and George W. Bush (Republican, president from 2001 to 2009) were displaced to a dining room that is usually not visited by the most notorious visitors.
Questioned by AFP, the White House had not reacted until late Friday night.
CNN highlights that President Trump had the opportunity to see the portraits of his two predecessors several times a day, when he came down from his private residence or when he received his visitors in the entrance hall.
The portrait of Barack Obama, whom Donald Trump succeeded in 2017 and whom he has accused of all ills, including “crimes,” should not be seen by the public during an official ceremony that Trump plans for before the November presidential election. .
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