Trump has banished the official portraits of former Presidents Barack Obama George H.W. Bush and George Bush to a secluded stairwell removed from guests’ eyes, based on a brand new report.
It’s custom for the portraits of the 2 most up-to-date presidents to greet White Home guests on the Grand Lobby. However Obama is now tucked right into a nook atop the Grand Staircase, the touchdown that marks the entry to the non-public residence, CNN reported.
The portraits of former Presidents George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush, have been moved to the identical space, sources acquainted with the matter advised CNN.
Now, solely these permitted into the closely restricted space — presidential relations, U.S. Secret Service Brokers and a smattering of staffers — will see Obama’s portrait. It has been White Home protocol for the reason that Nineteen Sixties to prominently show the portraits of latest presidential predecessors, based on the White Home Historic Affiliation.
Trump had already moved Obama’s portrait as soon as, in April, to the wall reverse its preliminary spot within the lobby close to the staircase. He changed it with a portray of himself elevating his fist skyward after the 2023 assassination try in opposition to him in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The transfer displaced the portrait of former President George W. Bush, which was then hung nearer to his father’s likeness, on the Grand Staircase.
All three former presidents have spoken out in opposition to Trump’s insurance policies, sparking his ire. In June, in a uncommon transfer, Obama and George W. Bush brazenly criticized the Trump administration for dismantling the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID). The elder Bush, who died in 2018, referred to Trump as a “blowhard” in Mark Okay. Updegrove’s biography, “The Last Republicans.”
Initially Revealed: August 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM EDT
