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Trump Turns Hallway into Shrine
The White House just turned a hallway into a political scoreboard.
On December 17, 2025, reporters spotted new bronze plaques beneath the presidential portraits on Trump’s Presidential Walk of Fame.
The plaques don’t just describe past presidents. They attack them using nicknames, accusations, and language that reads like social media posts.
Trump wrote many of them himself, and the targets include every Democrat who held the office in the past 30 years.

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Biden Gets an Autopen Portrait
Joe Biden is the only president without an actual portrait on the Walk of Fame.
Instead, Trump hung a framed photo of an autopen, a device that mechanically signs documents.
The display mocks Republican claims that Biden’s staff used the device to run the government without him.
Biden has denied those accusations, but Trump made the autopen the centerpiece of his predecessor’s spot on the wall.

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Sleepy Joe Called a Disaster
The plaque beneath Biden’s autopen calls him “Sleepy Joe Biden” and declares him “by far, the worst President in American History.”
It blames him for record inflation, the Afghanistan withdrawal, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
A second plaque says Biden “was dominated by his Radical Left handlers” and accuses the media of hiding his “severe mental decline.”

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Obama Labeled Most Divisive
Barack Obama’s plaque uses his full name, “Barack Hussein Obama,” a phrase often used as a jab in right-wing circles.
The text describes him as “one of the most divisive political figures in American History.”
It attacks the Affordable Care Act, calling it the “highly ineffective ‘Unaffordable’ Care Act,” and accuses Obama of spying on Trump’s 2016 campaign and creating what Trump calls “the Russia Hoax.”

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Even Bush Gets Criticized
George W. Bush, a fellow Republican, does not escape criticism.
His plaque acknowledges the creation of the Department of Homeland Security after September 11. But it also states that Bush “started wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which should not have happened.”
Bush notably did not speak to Trump when they last saw each other at Jimmy Carter’s funeral earlier in December.

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Clinton Plaque Mentions Hillary
Bill Clinton’s plaque gives some credit for the 1990s economy, but attributes his legislative wins to “Republicans in Congress.”
The plaque ends with a pointed reminder: “In 2016, President Clinton’s wife, Hillary Clinton, lost the Presidency to President Donald J. Trump!”
Hillary Clinton, who was never president, is mentioned on multiple plaques throughout the display.

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Reagan Painted as Trump Fan
Not all plaques are negative. Ronald Reagan’s description praises him for winning the Cold War and rebuilding the military.
It also claims Reagan “was a fan of President Donald J. Trump long before President Trump’s Historic run for the White House.”
The plaque adds, “Likewise, President Trump was a fan of his! ” Gerald Ford’s plaque calls his pardon of Nixon “brave.”

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Carter Gets Mixed Treatment
Jimmy Carter, who died in December 2024, receives a mostly negative plaque that mentions high inflation, unemployment, the Iran hostage crisis, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
But it ends on a softer note, stating that “many feel President Carter was more successful after his presidency than during it. He did wonderful things for Humanity!”
Carter’s post-presidency humanitarian work earned wide respect across party lines.

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Trump Gives Himself Two Displays
With two terms in office, Trump gets two portraits and two plaques.
His first-term plaque calls his 2016 win a “landslide” and claims he built “the Greatest Economy in the History of the World.”
His second-term plaque celebrates his 2024 popular vote victory, mentions the two assassination attempts he survived, and ends with “THE BEST IS YET TO COME” in all capital letters.

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Portrait Gallery Started in September
The Presidential Walk of Fame first appeared in September 2025 along the West Wing Colonnade, the outdoor walkway connecting the Oval Office to the White House residence.
At the time, it featured gilded black-and-white portraits of every president except Biden, who got the autopen image.
The descriptive plaques were added three months later, turning the display into something critics called unprecedented.

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Harris Says Americans Deserve Better
Former Vice President Kamala Harris responded on Jimmy Kimmel Live the night the plaques were revealed. “I spent so much time in the White House,” she said.
“The idea that those plaques would have been placed by a president of the United States to talk about former presidents of the United States, the American people deserve better.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom posted a photoshopped image of Trump sleeping on his own portrait.
This article was created with AI assistance and human editing.
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