Joe Biden ‘worst president’, Obama ‘divisive figure’: How Trump is mocking his predecessors with portraits in White House Colonnade

President Donald Trump has added controversial bronze plaques beneath portraits of former presidents along the White House's West Wing Colonnade, dubbing it the "Presidential Walk of Fame," with sharply critical descriptions targeting Joe Biden and Barack Obama penned in his distinctive style. The permanent signs, many reportedly written by Trump himself, feature sporadic capitalizations, exclamation points, and unfounded claims, escalating his pattern of White House alterations that include redesigning the Oval Office with gold leafing and demolishing the East Wing for a multimillion-dollar ballroom set for completion by term's end.

Biden plaque: ‘Worst President’ and election fraud claims

Beneath Biden's autopen signature portrait, the plaque labels him "Sleepy Joe Biden... by far, the worst President in American History," alleging he assumed office via "the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States" and oversaw "unprecedented disasters that brought our Nation to the brink of destruction."

It attacks his economic record, climate and immigration policies, the Afghanistan withdrawal as "among the most humiliating events in American History," and blames Biden's "weakness" for Russia's Ukraine invasion and the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, while citing his "severe mental decline" and "unprecedented use of the Autopen."

Obama plaque: ‘Divisive’ figure and spying accusations

Obama's plaque acknowledges him as "the first Black President, a community organizer, one term Senator from Illinois," but calls him "one of the most divisive political figures in American History," falsely claiming he "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."

References to Hillary Clinton appear twice: as Obama's "handpicked successor" who lost to Trump, and under Bill Clinton's portrait noting his wife Hillary's defeat.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the plaques as "eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind," with many "written directly by the President himself" as a "student of history."

FAQs

Are the claims fact-checked?
Many unfounded, like 2016 spying or election corruption; Afghanistan withdrawal criticized but not universally "most humiliating."

Who wrote them?
Trump penned many personally, per Leavitt, expanding the Colonnade into a politically charged "Walk of Fame."