On Thursday’s episode of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Joe Scarborough blasted President Donald Trump’s newest ornamental tweak to the White House — and advised his style (and maturity stage) is akin to that of an elementary faculty bully.
In August, the White House revealed that it was giving the historic West Wing Colonnade — an outside hall that runs between the West Wing and the Executive Residence — the Mar-a-Lago therapy.
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The beforehand clean partitions of the enduring walkway now function a huge signal that appears prefer it was bought at a big-box residence items retailer, studying “Presidential Walk of Fame.” Below the signal are oodles of busy ornamental elaborations and a protracted row of gaudy gold-framed portraits of every American president.
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This week every portrait obtained its personal plaque, and the descriptions of every president — particularly Trump’s most up-to-date predecessors — are written in a “style of [Trump’s] hyperbolic social media posts” and provide an “often inaccurate version of history,” per the New York Times.
Scarborough, nonetheless, had a a lot sassier evaluation of Trump’s newest White House alternation.
“He’s putting up third grade plaques in the people’s White House,” the previous Republican lawmaker stated. “Might as well write it in crayons.”
The “Morning Joe” host has a degree in regards to the language.
Barack Obama’s plaque refers to him as “Barack Hussein Obama,” and he’s described as “one of the most divisive political figures in American history” — regardless of Obama having the best favorability ranking of any residing president.
Bill Clinton’s plaque downplays his administration’s achievements whereas additionally mentioning his spouse, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, misplaced to Trump within the 2016 presidential election.
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Joe Biden’s plaque is probably the most childish. In lieu of a portrait of Biden, it as an alternative boasts a portrait of an autopen.
“Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American history,” it reads.
It additionally falsely accuses Biden of profitable the “most corrupt election ever” and claims he made “unprecedented use of the autopen.” There are references to “severe mental decline,” “the Biden Crime Family” and his “Radical Left handlers” on Biden’s plaque as nicely.
Trump — after all — obtained two portraits and plaques for each his wins in 2016 and 2025, with one plaque boasting that he’s accountable for “the Greatest Economy in the History of the World.”
Unsurprisingly, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt informed NBC News that Trump performed a big function within the wording of the plaques.
“The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind,” she stated. “As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself.”
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