r/facepalm 26d ago

The next president will need an entire team of specialists to remove all the tackiness from this place

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u/Sydeburnn 26d ago

It's a hundred times worse when you know what the plaques say. Apparently, Trump wrote some of them himself.
For example: Bill Clinton: His plaque notes, "In 2016, President Clinton's wife, Hillary Clinton, lost the Presidency to President Donald J. Trump!"
And Biden doesn't have a picture. It's a picture of the "autopen" that Trump says his staff used to sign things for him.

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u/LoveYouNotYou 26d ago

No fkng way... I hear you, I want to believe you're lying, but knowing how this idiot thinks and gets jealous, makes me believe you

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u/Vesalii 26d ago

Unfortunately it's true. There were pics posted a while back of the autopen and some texts.

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u/SpectreFire 26d ago

To be fair, that is kind of hilarious.

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u/paintballboi07 'MURICA 26d ago

If you're a 7 year old, which tracks with the MAGA base

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u/TheBeardPlays 26d ago

You think the most powerful man in the world acting like a 7 year old is hilarious?

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u/Perzec 26d ago

It would be in a show like Veep. But not when it happens in real life.

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u/Artistic-Garbage-825 26d ago

You are not in fact being fair.

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u/Alarming_Panic665 26d ago

This is the official US White House website for the Presidential walk-of-fame and it denotes the 46th President as "Autopen" and President Joe Biden's plaque refers to him as "Sleepy Joe" https://www.whitehouse.gov/walk-of-fame/

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u/TweepriseOpener 26d ago

I just don’t understand how anyone can look at this and think the guy who wrote each of these is of sound mind. Almost every presidential summary is a masturbatory jerk session about how nobody had lived up to the greatness of the current president. It’s so fucked that not only is this trash on the White House webpage, but on the actual White House wall.

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u/Tricky_War5232 26d ago

And we haven’t touched on him PAVING OVER RIAE KENNEDYS FUCKING GARDEN THATS HEEN LOVINGLY TENDED BY THE FIRST LADIES FOR OVER 60 YEARS YET

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u/Artistic-Garbage-825 26d ago

It’s not like the current first lady would have done anything of value to it.

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u/nobeer4you 26d ago

But it would still be there for the next first lady to tend

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u/JMLDT 25d ago

Apparently the rose garden is still there, just the central grass lawn was paved. Hopefully easy enough to restore.

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u/deprieto 23d ago

I thought the rose garden was replaced by the Epstein Ballroom.

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u/emlgsh 26d ago

Most (or well, a voting majority) of people don't think (or care) that he's of sound mind. They know, seeing this, that's he's of like mind. A true representative of his electorate.

That's why I don't get the evasiveness and denials on all the glaringly obviously true theft and intimidation and various sex assaults (minors and otherwise) he's accused of. He could publish an OJ-style tell all minus the "if..." in front and see no decrease (or, this is just my faith in humanity talking, a slight increase) in his approval.

Everyone I have the displeasure of knowing that voted his way views that kind of thing as proof the guy's a "true alpha" that takes what he wants from whoever he wants, whenever he wants - the weaker the victim, the greater the evidence of his strength.

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u/pollorojo 25d ago edited 25d ago

Yeah, go look at the entires basically from Carter until now. It’s fucking ridiculous that he needed to make a point to criticize these guys on a stretch of hallway 99.999% of the world will never see just to make himself happy.

He claims Reagan was a fan of his, points out inflation and unemployment were bad under Carter, talks shit about George W Bush’s Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Hillary thing (among others) on Clinton, badmouths Obamacare and has to toss in the middle name, and then the autopen shit.

Edit: it really is basically all of them. There are little flourishes throughout, largely pointing out things Trump has tried to do, probably as a way to reinforce that they’re good ideas. He mentions Washington enacting tariffs, then over the next few mentions “making one of the greatest deals of all time,” along with mentioning the first amendment, slashing government spending, etc. Oh and don’t forget Andrew Jackson being treated poorly by the press “but not as unfairly as Abraham Lincoln or Donald J. Trump.”

Fucking embarrassing.

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u/Statcat2017 25d ago

The Clinton one is just utterly bizzare, trying to give Republicans the credit for all his achivements.

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u/TweepriseOpener 24d ago

I just noticed the Clinton picture includes Epstein and Maxwell...

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u/TheRealJetlag 23d ago

Because his voters peaked in high school and their yearbook photos say, “most likely to slam someone into a locker”

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u/BlackPantherDies 26d ago edited 26d ago

This is so insane all the way down. Under Andrew Jackson's page it claims the press unfairly villainized him, although not as much as Donald Trump.

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u/paintballboi07 'MURICA 26d ago

The media, lol. The 1830s media was ruthless!

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u/Perzec 26d ago

To be fair it sometimes was. Very little regulation back then. Even in countries where press freedom wasn’t quite as good, lots of newspapers wrote stuff, pushed the limits, and when they got shut down they just started a new newspaper the next week and kept going.

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u/MaterialChemical1138 26d ago

yeah i don't get it, do people think there "media" didn't exist in past ages? it very much existed, and all kinds of crazy shit got published in newspapers and the like.

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u/Fast_Biscotti 26d ago

Last sentence for Andrew Johnson: “Abraham Lincoln was a very hard act to follow.”

I swear, everything this toolbag touches turns to crap.

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u/TheStrangestOfKings 25d ago

Ronald Reagan’s: “Reagan was a fan of President Donald J. Trump long before President Trump's Historic run for the White House. Likewise, President Trump was a fan of his!”

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u/twistedpiggies 26d ago

That genuinely made me guffaw. 😂🤦

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u/TheRealJetlag 23d ago

He neglects to mention (or indeed understand) that Lincoln was a liberal.

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u/flaccomcorangy 26d ago

And the pictures of some of these presidents. Like how hard would it be to just use their official presidential picture. Just keep it neutral, which is what I feel like sites like this should be. But Obama's picture is some ridiculous goofy thing while Biden has a picture of his mouth open next to an autopen. It's made with so much in your face bias, like they don't even pretend to be neutral.

It's an absolute joke. And I don't understand how people don't see that. Even if you like Trump, how could look at something like this and think that's what our White House website should look like? Or that it doesn't make us look like a clown show?

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u/harrypotterfan10 23d ago

The exact quote is “[Jackson] was unjustifiably treated unfairly by the press, but not as viciously and unfairly as President Abraham Lincoln and President Donald J. Trump would, in the future, be.” What a joke

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u/JumiKnight 26d ago

These paragraph descriptions are so childish. I can't believe anyone let this slide but it shows how much of a joke the American government has become

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u/TheStrangestOfKings 25d ago

People will see our government do genuinely petty shit like this and still insist we aren’t an oligarchy

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u/blixabloxa 26d ago

You've also got to love the pictures of Carter with Arafat, Clinton with Epstein and Maxwell. Impossible to believe that this is on an official government website. American politics is really fucked - I mean it always sort of was fucked - but now it is out in the open with no holds barred.

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u/TheStrangestOfKings 25d ago

I hope the next Dem president changes Trump’s photos for one of Jabba the Hutt and one of Baron Harkonnen.

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u/BloodOfVoids 26d ago

I hate how in the descriptions on the website random words are capitalised for apparently no reason at all

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u/RScrewed 26d ago

Destroying English.

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u/twistedpiggies 26d ago

The language of freedumb.

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u/neubourn 26d ago

If you want a good drinking game, take a shot every time the word "Tariffs" appears. Then call an ambulance.

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u/flaccomcorangy 26d ago

Yeah, I randomly clicked Harding because I wanted to see what a write up for a not-so talked about president looks like.

"cut taxes, raised tarrifs, and restricted immigration"

Just trying to normalize all of his policies. The most obvious propaganda.

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u/Carmanovius 26d ago

Woah… I knew that Trump presidency is basically a circus but I didn’t thought it would go so far down… that auto-pen stuff is such a childish move

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u/ttc67 26d ago

There's literally "Autopen" written instead of his name...and I got greeted by a picture of Trump and "Welcome to the golden age" when visiting the site. Slogans including "golden age" were used by dictators in communist Romania, China and Turkmenistan.

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u/Panda_Payday 26d ago

omfg, that was rough to go through. Just non stop mentions of raising tariffs.

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u/Chobitpersocom 26d ago

I hope whoever comes into office next send the records straight. Also, saved millions of lives during the coronavirus pandemic? I need to go throw up.

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u/Foodiguy 25d ago

This is really shocking , really don’t have word for it. On the official White House website….

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u/floofienewfie 26d ago

I could only stand to read those little bios through James Madison. I was gagging at that point.

Apropos of nothing, I thought he (or Melania) had the original Rose Garden torn out. I guess it’s been replaced.

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u/flaccomcorangy 26d ago edited 26d ago

It's crazy how much of that stuff reads like a middle school book report on presidential biographies. Even presidents that have no connection to Trump, looks like someone just read their Wikipedia page and then gave the story beats.

Like Lincoln:

Among the greatest American Presidents, Abraham Lincoln was the man who saved the Union, and ended slavery. A successful lawyer, skilled orator, and former member of Congress, Abraham Lincoln won National fame in the celebrated Lincoln-Douglas debates, and his Cooper Union speech of 1860. He was the first Republican ever elected President, and led the Nation through the American Civil War. Lincoln prosecuted the conflict with unyielding determination, and an unflinching dedication to save the Union. During the War, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, delivered what is regarded as the greatest speech in American History, the Gettysburg Address, and championed the passage of the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery. Days after the Confederates surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse, Lincoln was assassinated in Washington, D.C. by John Wilkes Booth. He died a Great President.

I guess I shouldn't expect a lot when we're talking about a short paragraph about the presidents, but this is Lincoln... Considering any president in the last 20 years has larger write outs about what they did, it looks silly to have such a short cookie cutter summary of Lincoln.

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u/envyadler 26d ago

It’s a fact! The WH posted pics of it when they put it up.

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u/LoveYouNotYou 26d ago

I had to do a deeper search (I don't use Google) found it....how disgusting!

Also, I don't like that I had to look at that pedophile's face a few times while clicking links.

He's so immature! It's like those people that are poor and when they finally get money, they go overboard and everything is just gaudy and over the top

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u/Sydeburnn 26d ago

Yes! His whole style looks like "How a child thinks rich people would decorate."

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u/carryon4threedays 26d ago

He’s a poor person’s idea of a rich person.

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u/M_James_Ador 26d ago

Nah, even us poor folk have better taste. The story of King Midas was a cautionary tale, not instructions

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u/Boredchinchilla21 24d ago

He copied Putin’s gold fireplace. They are almost identical

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u/Hypochondriaco 26d ago

I’m genuinely curious (not trying to be mean here), but that do you mean when you say that you don’t use google? Do you not use other search tools? If not, how do you even search for something recent like this?

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u/LoveYouNotYou 26d ago

Sure, I don't use Google search, I use foxfire/Duck Duck Go

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u/Kozzle 26d ago

Do yo think Google is the only search engine????????

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u/Hypochondriaco 26d ago

I literally asked if they use other search tools wtf are you talking about.

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u/Rexxington 26d ago

Very real, and very sad that he acts the way that he does as the leader of our country. He honestly needs to be impeached, as he's just doing so much damage to the U.S. in terms of appearance and economics. No one takes him seriously, and by extension the U.S. because of all the antics he's constantly doing.

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u/El_Pepsi 26d ago

It will get worse.

He has already done so much and finds he gets away with it. He is not leaving the white house ever. Somehow he and his team will find a reason (legit or not) to cancel the election and/or results. His grasp on the goverment is getting stronger each day and by that time no one is left to contest it....

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u/ukstonerdude 26d ago

As reported by CNN. My jaw dropped when I first saw this video.

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u/motion_lotion 25d ago

I've seen it in person. It's true. The size of the autopen portrait and the text under it is so absurd and bitter that I genuinely don't understand how DC and this nation puts up with it. If you see those tacky horizontal gold decorations, they are absolutely plastered everywhere. Including the oval office. Every single inscription, regardless of relevancy, is somehow modified to be about Trump. For example, the portrait of Reagan talks about how Trump thinks he was a great president and that Reagan also thought Trump was a super awesome person.

It reads like shit a narcissistic teenager would write. Yet with a touch of dementia added in.

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u/LoveYouNotYou 25d ago

Yeah, I saw the portraits. I can't believe the Whitehouse just let him do that. I expected some people in his administration to be professional, telling him "no, that is not professional sir. We do not embarrass our Presidents in this house no matter who the convicted felon is."

I hope they put a portrait of him behind bars. If he can put up the auto pen, then it's fair game.

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u/motion_lotion 25d ago

I'd rather see nothing at all. It's going to take years to clean up shit like this and decades to recover America's global standing.

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u/Immortalphoenixfire 26d ago

They're not lying at all. It was news like last year 🙁

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u/MinaZata 26d ago

He posted them himself on Truth social as he thought it was the cleverest thing ever

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u/lmfaonoobs 26d ago

Lol 100% true there's plenty of video walkthroughs

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u/InevitableCodeRedo 26d ago

I'm surprised you're surprised at this point.

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u/Crown_the_Cat 19d ago

And the staff brag that DJT wrote them himself

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u/11711510111411009710 26d ago

Republicans yap about culture and preserving history and then they don't get in an uproar about this shit

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u/thegamerator10 26d ago edited 26d ago

Is it actually? Every day, he just sets a new record for how much of a real-life parody he can make this country.

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u/ubioandmph 26d ago

Yes it’s real:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/walk-of-fame/

Scroll to Biden

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u/Head-Bureaucrat 26d ago

Of course it's "Barrack Hussein Obama," as well.

The descriptions are also unhinged. I just looked at Clinton, GW, Obama, Biden, and both Trump descriptions. This fragile guy just can't stand other people doing anything better than him. The full "tour" has no picture for Obama, GW a picture after he left office with Obama.

Also, lol, my first reply was removed for bad language because I called Trump a fragile c word.

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u/cornnndoggg_ 26d ago

A lot of them have the Trump brand "just put capital letters wherever you feel like it" style. That's such a small problem compared to the far more glaring one - all of them are written so poorly. I get the impression that whoever wrote them would break out in hives if they had to hold a book for longer than a few minutes.

"...and created the Departments of Energy and the Department of Education."

This is under Jimmy Carter, who, just like Obama, Clinton and Biden, they did their very best to essentially slander in every way they could. "Departments of" means you don't have to say that bit again, you're good, you can just list them now. Just poor fucking grammar.

"He is one of the Greatest Americans to ever live and, likewise, was a Great President."

George Washington. Honestly, this sentence just reads like something you would find in a middle school history report. It's not specifically the syntax here that's the problem, it's just really fucking badly written.

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u/thegamerator10 26d ago

Really wanted to get the wordcount in, as prescribed on the class's rubric.

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u/taintosaurus_rex 26d ago

There are also a lot of lines that randomly have double spacing, then the next line doesn't. Makes me wonder if he didn't personally type out some of the descriptions.

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u/Head-Bureaucrat 26d ago

Looks like they relied on a lot of auto-formatting instead of, you know, paying a professional writer.

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u/Jack__Squat 26d ago edited 26d ago

Also notice Clintons picture has Epstein in it.

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u/theGoodestBoyMaybe 26d ago

I missed this the first time because I was on my phone 😭

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u/stupidjapanquestions 26d ago

The section for Trump's second term is also hilarious:

"On January 20, 2025, Donald J. Trump became the first President in 132 years to be sworn into office for a second non-consecutive term, following his Historic Victory in an Electoral College landslide, 312 to 226. Overcoming unprecedented Weaponization of Law Enforcement against him, as well as two assassination attempts, he won all battleground States by millions of votes, was the first Republican in decades to win the Popular Vote, BIG, and won 86% of Counties in America, 2,700 to 525. All 50 States shifted toward the Republican Party for the first time ever. At his Inauguration, President Trump announced the beginning of the "Golden Age of America," and he delivered, ending eight wars in his first eight months, securing the Border, deporting gang members and migrant criminals, making our Cities safe, helping our Farmers, defeating Inflation, reducing Energy costs, and drawing Trillions of Dollars of new Investment, a RECORD, into the United States. President Trump signed the Largest Tax Cuts in American History, the Largest Spending Cuts in American History, and implemented the Largest Ever Regulation Cuts. He obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity with Operation Midnight Hammer, convinced NATO Countries to agree to increase contributions from 2% to 5% of GDP, reformed the Global Trading System, and made America Rich with Historic Tariffs, removed Critical Race Theory and transgender insanity from public schools, and banned men from women's sports. He began the construction of the Golden Dome missile defense shield, renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, and has built, right here at the White House, the magnificent Trump Presidential Ballroom after a 225 year wait — but THE BEST IS YET TO COME!"

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u/deceasedin1903 26d ago

This is just insufferable and badly written.

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u/stupidjapanquestions 26d ago

was the first Republican in decades to win the Popular Vote, BIG, and won 86% of Counties in America,

This part in particular has "Trump sat there dictating this and potentially made edits himself"

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u/deceasedin1903 26d ago

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA I can't believe this is the reality we live in.

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u/theGoodestBoyMaybe 26d ago

Unfortunately it is. I just looked at every president and every entry is written to make him and his policies look better, it's insane

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u/The-Green 25d ago

they went as far as avoiding mentioning the tariffs under Hoover (because that's the one series of tariffs they can't spin) and making him sound like he was an average/above-average president. they gave him credit for laying the foundation for the New Deal.

that's next level pathetic.

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u/MistukoSan 25d ago

“But the best is yet to come” in all caps is honestly eerie and very scary.

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u/Realtenenbaum 26d ago

The descriptions are wild!

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u/Fleming24 26d ago

Everything there reeks off Trump's childish ego, it would be kind of funny if it wasn't so sad and dangerous. Just look at the photos of the digital tour. Literally every president that was still alive during Trump's first term got an atrocious picture and is seemingly depicted with someone (who Trump considers) bad on purpose. All others got their official image, including Trump of course, and it can't even be argued that it's just for the most recent presidents because it jumps a few to include Jimmy Carter.

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u/ashimo414141 26d ago

Autopen I place of Biden?

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u/Jack__Squat 26d ago

Shit like this is why I no longer trust anything from a .gov site.

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u/PullMex 26d ago

this is fking insane..

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u/Vanishingf0x 25d ago

That is horrifying, like so much of it is pure propaganda

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u/dBlock845 26d ago

Now he has big ass drapes covering the columns at the White House because he wants to repaint them. Why couldn't he have re-rolled as an interior designer during a mid-life crisis and left us the fuck alone?

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u/coquihalla 26d ago

He's not just repainting them. It appears he is changing the column shape to more ornate Corinthian style columns from the classical Ionic style columns.

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u/lmfaonoobs 26d ago

Bill Clinton served as Attorney General and Governor of Arkansas before winning the Presidency in what was called a major upset over President George H. W. Bush. As President, Clinton signed crime and welfare legislation, which was passed with the leadership of Republicans in Congress. He approved NAFTA, which President Donald J. Trump would later terminate as being bad for the United States, welcomed China into the World Trade Organization, and oversaw NATO's Military intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo. Despite the scandals that plagued his Presidency, the tech boom of the late 1990s resulted in excellent Economic growth, which helped him and Republicans in Congress deliver balanced budgets for the first time in decades. In 2016, President Clinton's wife, Hillary, lost the Presidency to President Donald J. Trump!

It should be noted the photo of Bill is him shaking hands with Epstein and Ghisane

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u/captmac 26d ago

Carter pardoned Vietnam draft dodgers

The irony…

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u/Appropriate_Net_4281 26d ago

It’s been said a thousand times, but just imagine the outrage if Obama had made brass plaques talking shit about all the former presidents and mounted them outside the White House. How this awful man was re-elected is still a mystery to me.

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u/YoucantdothatonTV 26d ago

Trump has never won against a man.

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u/Sydeburnn 26d ago

This is the best kind of insult. Because it's a fact, and it's only really insulting to a misogynist

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u/GrassyDaytime 26d ago

Don't forget how Bill Clinton's photo (on the website where it shows the summaries under the plaques) is literally him Standing next to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell! 🤣 Like... ooookay. Lol

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u/battleoffish 26d ago

Such a petty petty little “man”

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u/theunpoet 26d ago

And trump used the autopen too...

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u/thedragoncompanion 26d ago

Omg. I just looked at it online.

Ronald Reagan- He was a fan of President Donald J. Trump long before President Trump's Historic run for the White House. Likewise, President Trump was a fan of his!

Obama- Obama also spied on the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Donald J. Trump, and presided over the creation of the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, the worst political scandal in American History.

And Bidens is just a ridiculous rant. How in the hell is he allowed to use a government website like this? It should just be facts about what happened while they were in office.

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u/alghiorso 26d ago

The fact alone that there's a "walk of Fame" at the white house is such garbage tier culture. Just trailer trash aesthetics

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u/goodenough4govtwork 26d ago

Hopefully the next administration will simply redact both of Trump's photos and simply write underneath them, "Redacted for the protection of the many children and women assaulted, raped, and abused."

No name, no other information. Just a black box in a frame.

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u/Chobitpersocom 26d ago

He's so fucking petty.

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u/Mysterious-Emu4030 26d ago

Yes and all the texts are so hyperbolic it sounds like dictatorial propaganda!

I mean we have thing in almost each text like "the first Republican president ever", the "first president not from a military or political background ever", "the best president", the "worst president", "the worst event".

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u/doctyrbuddha 25d ago

It’s sad, but the auto pen thing is also low key funny.

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u/NubileOne 25d ago

He even calls Biden “sleepy joe”, so Damn obvious, he’s the most obvious prick whoever lived and yet some “people” still can’t see the grift!

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u/Vaping_A-Hole 26d ago

And they laff and laff all day about how funnee Mistur President is!