Current Events > Lol, Trump won't have a ceremony for the unveiling of Obama's portrait in the WH

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treewojima
05/19/20 12:10:01 PM
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https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-refusing-to-unveil-obama-portrait-at-the-white-house-2020-5

President Donald Trump is breaking a 40-year tradition and won't be unveiling former President Barack Obama's portrait at the White House, NBC News reported on Tuesday.

Obama would also not be interested in attending such an event, according to the report, which cited people familiar with the matter.

The White House and a representative for Obama did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.

For decades, first-term presidents have held ceremonies in the East Room to unveil the portraits of their closest predecessor. Obama did so for former President George W. Bush in 2012, for example.


I'm having mental images of a fussy toddler stomping his feet
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Mike Xtreme
05/19/20 12:10:48 PM
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He is quite the man-child

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P4wn4g3
05/19/20 12:11:09 PM
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Wonder if he will have it removed

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V-E-G-Y-
05/19/20 12:11:31 PM
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butthole666
05/19/20 12:11:42 PM
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people are gonna pretend this doesnt have powerful racial undertones. Fuck Donald Trump.

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YourDrunkFather
05/19/20 12:11:52 PM
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Hes gonna draw dicks on it.

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Jabodie
05/19/20 12:12:52 PM
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butthole666 posted...
people are gonna pretend this doesnt have powerful racial undertones. Fuck Donald Trump.
I might agree with you but I can't see race.

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DifferentialEquation
05/19/20 12:15:47 PM
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butthole666 posted...
people are gonna pretend this doesnt have powerful racial undertones. Fuck Donald Trump.

It doesn't. Trump would have done the same thing to Romney.

This is not Trump being petty. Trump is an outsider candidate. That was one of the major points of his campaign that helped him win and why he's so respected by non politicians. This is him standing up to our corrupt political machine, which Obama helped prop up during his presidency.

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UnfairRepresent
05/19/20 12:18:20 PM
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DifferentialEquation posted...

This is not Trump being petty.

lol
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Christian RULES
05/19/20 12:20:44 PM
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If you caught your predecessor in a huge scandal like Obamagate, would you want to hang his portrait on the wall?

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treewojima
05/19/20 12:21:12 PM
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Bluebomber182
05/19/20 12:23:14 PM
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Christian RULES posted...
If you caught your predecessor in a huge scandal like Obamagate, would you want to hang his portrait on the wall?


obamagste is literally fake news

and nixons portrait is on the wall
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Shablagoo
05/19/20 12:24:30 PM
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treewojima posted...
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ThunderTrain
05/19/20 12:26:38 PM
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Trump is a little baby bitch

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2SweetforTurtle
05/19/20 12:41:35 PM
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I can see where someone would say this has racial undertones but I dont really think it does. Trump would probably do that to anyone hes been in an open feud with (Biden, Clinton, Obama, Jeb, Romney, McCain) but its more of Trumps signature pettiness.

Also tbh even if he did do a little ceremony, would Obama even show up? People dont like the President, and not going to the White House while hes in office is how everyone chooses to display that anyway, lol.

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P4wn4g3
05/19/20 12:46:53 PM
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2SweetforTurtle posted...
I can see where someone would say this has racial undertones but I dont really think it does. Trump would probably do that to anyone hes been in an open feud with (Biden, Clinton, Obama, Jeb, Romney, McCain) but its more of Trumps signature pettiness.

Also tbh even if he did do a little ceremony, would Obama even show up? People dont like the President, and not going to the White House while hes in office is how everyone chooses to display that anyway, lol.
The racial undertones are there regardless of Trump's primary intentions.

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2SweetforTurtle
05/19/20 12:51:36 PM
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P4wn4g3 posted...
The racial undertones are there regardless of Trump's primary intentions.

The racial undertones are there because Trump cant fart without someone suggesting it was racially motivated

Not to say that he isnt racist, but that shit gets brought up no matter what he does.

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Derwood
05/19/20 12:52:22 PM
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2SweetforTurtle posted...
The racial undertones are there because Trump cant fart without someone suggesting it was racially motivated

I mean, Trump was the vocal leader of the Birther movement, so his racism is right out in the open
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DeadBankerDream
05/19/20 12:53:06 PM
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2SweetforTurtle posted...


The racial undertones are there because Trump cant fart without someone suggesting it was racially motivated


They'd probably be right.
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P4wn4g3
05/19/20 12:53:10 PM
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2SweetforTurtle posted...
The racial undertones are there because Trump cant fart without someone suggesting it was racially motivated
Well he's racist, but they are mostly there because Obama was the first black president. That and Trump being the guy to accuse Obama of being a Muslim terrorist.

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butthole666
05/19/20 12:53:55 PM
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2SweetforTurtle posted...
I can see where someone would say this has racial undertones but I dont really think it does. Trump would probably do that to anyone hes been in an open feud with (Biden, Clinton, Obama, Jeb, Romney, McCain) but its more of Trumps signature pettiness.

Also tbh even if he did do a little ceremony, would Obama even show up? People dont like the President, and not going to the White House while hes in office is how everyone chooses to display that anyway, lol.
A historically anti-black man (and subsequently anti-black president) doing this to a president whose entire 2 terms he spent alleging he was an illegal immigrant because he is black has absolute and inseparable racial implications lol

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MagnusDJL
05/19/20 12:55:46 PM
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While Trump is a racist piece of shit, I could see this being more about Obama calling out Trump moreso than racism.

Either way though Trump's being a petty bitch.
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku
05/19/20 1:06:59 PM
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I'm cool with it.

After Biden wins, he'll do the unveiling and consider 2016-2020 as a presidential gap term since no one of sound mind was in office.

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Hexenherz
05/19/20 1:07:18 PM
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Playing devil's advocate (... can't believe I'm doing that with trump, I hate the guy), Obama also did an unprecedented thing by repeatedly calling out trump's shitty response to the pandemic. Which I think in a way gives justification for trump not wanting to do a portrait unveiling ceremony. Would you want to honor the guy who just called you out on national media?

But that being said, doesn't surprise me since POS-in-chief is a baby.

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Taharqa_
05/19/20 1:09:06 PM
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Derwood posted...
I mean, Trump was the vocal leader of the Birther movement, so his racism is right out in the open

This. The man is a racist, full stop. That's not even the worst of his pathologies though.

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Odoylerules
05/19/20 1:10:33 PM
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Christian RULES posted...
If you caught your predecessor in a huge scandal like Obamagate, would you want to hang his portrait on the wall?

At least DEs gimmick is funny. What exactly do you have?
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Veggeta X
05/19/20 1:11:16 PM
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Expected from this man-child

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Bishop9800
05/19/20 1:11:32 PM
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Christian RULES posted...
If you caught your predecessor in a huge scandal like Obamagate, would you want to hang his portrait on the wall?

So what is ObamaGate? Please tell us @Christian_RULES

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2SweetforTurtle
05/19/20 1:13:32 PM
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P4wn4g3 posted...
Well he's racist, but they are mostly there because Obama was the first black president. That and Trump being the guy to accuse Obama of being a Muslim terrorist.

Okay fair enough

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Pogo_Marimo
05/19/20 1:13:44 PM
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Hexenherz posted...
Playing devil's advocate (... can't believe I'm doing that with trump, I hate the guy), Obama also did an unprecedented thing by repeatedly calling out trump's shitty response to the pandemic. Which I think in a way gives justification for trump not wanting to do a portrait unveiling ceremony. Would you want to honor the guy who just called you out on national media?

But that being said, doesn't surprise me since POS-in-chief is a baby.
If he was a former President, who served without being impeached or convicted of some kind of felony, yes, because I'm the President of the United States and the position dictates I should exhibit some dignity and grace.

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1NfamousACE_2
05/19/20 1:20:05 PM
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Hexenherz posted...
Playing devil's advocate (... can't believe I'm doing that with trump, I hate the guy), Obama also did an unprecedented thing by repeatedly calling out trump's shitty response to the pandemic. Which I think in a way gives justification for trump not wanting to do a portrait unveiling ceremony. Would you want to honor the guy who just called you out on national media?

But that being said, doesn't surprise me since POS-in-chief is a baby.

Repeatedly?

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UnfairRepresent
05/19/20 1:23:30 PM
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That line doesn't really work.

Obama has mentioned Trump like 3 times all indirectly.

The current literal pandemic was called a hoax by Trump.

Trump has spent the last 11 years trashing Obama every week.

The defense of "How dare Obama open his mouth!" falls flat.

I mean sure Obama brought up how Bush fucked over the economy as a deflection now and then but he was always respectful to the guy.

In this case Obama literally has done nothing wrong. He's not running around screaming that Trump is a criminal and dumb dumb doo doo face while trump really has.

Honestly Republicans would be rioting if Obama or Biden or Clinton acted like Trump does
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cmiller4642
05/19/20 1:25:04 PM
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Aww baby Trump is butthurt again
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Hexenherz
05/19/20 1:25:05 PM
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I'm not accusing Obama of being out of line, I respect him for speaking up about it because it's a such a clear and self-evident danger that I don't know how people could argue to the contrary.

I'm just saying that it gives some justification to Trump's decision here. Though he was probably going to be an asshole and not do it anyway because that's how he is.

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treewojima
05/19/20 1:42:33 PM
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You're not really playing Devil's advocate though, you're playing baby's advocate lol
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Evening_Dragon
05/19/20 1:43:35 PM
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Trump knows no one's going to do the same for him, the cheeto.

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Bishop9800
05/19/20 2:22:21 PM
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Bishop9800 posted...
So what is ObamaGate? Please tell us @Christian_RULES


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Hexenherz
05/19/20 2:26:18 PM
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treewojima posted...
You're not really playing Devil's advocate though, you're playing baby's advocate lol
Can't argue with that -_-

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