President Donald Trump has put in bronze plaques beneath presidential portraits on the White House that mock his predecessors with private assaults and false claims.

The transfer caps off per week of unprecedented pettiness from the commander-in-chief.

Trump wrote many of the plaques himself, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. The everlasting indicators learn like his social media posts with random capitalizations and extreme exclamation factors.

The plaque underneath Joe Biden’s portrait calls him “by far, the worst President in American History” and claims he took workplace “as a result of the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States.”

Trump additionally attacked Biden’s “severe mental decline” and mocked his use of the presidential autopen for signatures. Barack Obama’s plaque describes him as “one of the most divisive political figures in American History” and falsely claims he “spied on the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Donald J. Trump.”

The plaque additionally references the “Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax” that Trump calls “the worst political scandal in American History.”

Hillary Clinton will get talked about twice throughout completely different plaques. Under Obama’s portrait, Trump notes she was his “handpicked successor” who “would then lose the Presidency to Donald J. Trump.”

Bill Clinton’s plaque additionally mentions that “President Clinton’s wife, Hillary, lost the Presidency to President Donald J. Trump.”

This newest show of pettiness comes after Trump confronted bipartisan criticism for his feedback about Rob Reiner’s loss of life. After the director and his spouse had been discovered murdered of their Beverly Hills dwelling, Trump stated Reiner was “very bad for our country” and prompt his loss of life was associated to “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Republican lawmakers called Trump’s remarks “disgusting” and “inappropriate.” GOP Rep. Thomas Massie said the comments were “disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered.”

Even conservative allies distanced themselves from Trump’s response. President Trump doubled down on his Reiner feedback throughout a press convention.

“I wasn’t a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form,” he stated whereas defending his preliminary assertion.

The insulting plaques are a part of Trump’s broader White House makeover, which incorporates paving over the Rose Garden and demolishing the East Wing to make method for a $300 million ballroom.

He’s additionally added gold leafing all through the Oval Office and put in statues across the Rose Garden. Preservationists have filed a number of lawsuits to cease Trump’s renovations. The National Trust for Historic Preservation argues that these modifications violate federal preservation legal guidelines.

The plaques now completely show Trump’s grievances alongside the West Wing Colonnade, the place guests and dignitaries stroll each day.

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