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President Donald Trump may be tall, but he continues to prove that deep down inside he’s a teeny tiny little baby man.
Case in point, according to CNN, Trump decided to essentially hide former president Barack Obama’s official portrait from the White House — and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) is calling the move like he sees it.
Typically, White House protocol calls for portraits of the most recent American presidents to be featured prominently in the entrance way, so that they’re visible during official events and visitors on tours.
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But Trump directed staff to move Robert McCurdy’s photorealistic painting of the 44th president to the top of the Grand Staircase into a corner where most can’t see it. CNN, who obtained a photo of the portrait’s new location, also noted that it’s now hanging on a landing leading into a private residence that is heavily restricted.
Portraits of former presidents George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush, have also been moved to the same location.
A portrait of Trump’s most recent predecessor, Joe Biden, has not yet been completed — and once it is, we’re sure Trump will find a nice home for it in the White House’s basement. Or he’ll just pave over it, like the rose garden.
When news of Trump’s latest jab at Obama made its way to Newsom, he only needed six words to sum up why Trump would do this.
“Small men hide from history’s giants,” Newsom wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
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This is not the first time Trump has moved Obama’s portrait. In April, it was removed from the Grand Foyer and replaced by a painting of Trump — complete with a gold frame ― pumping his fist in the air after last year’s attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania. Obama’s portrait then hung in the East Room, until it got demoted to its dusty corner.
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Trump’s interior design move comes amid high tensions between the president and Obama. Last month, Trump accused Obama of participating in a “coup” against him in 2016 — an allegation Obama later called “outrageous.”
Trump has beef with the Bush family as well. George W. Bush, whom Trump has called a “failed president,” skipped Trump’s first inauguration. In 2017, the late George H. W. Bush called Trump a “blowhard,” and said he voted for Hillary Clinton for president in 2016.
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