So why do YOU think Obama would not be interested in such an event? George W. Bush was interested in such an event when Obama was president. Clinton was interested in such an event when W. was president. HW was interested in such an event with Clinton was president.
What do YOU think would make Obama not be interested in having his portrait unveiled at the White House, like every other president in recent history has had done?
If Trump gets the successor he wants – maybe Trump Jr. – it won’t be a problem.
But if his successor is a small-d democrat (probably also means a big D Democrat), all sorts of honors that normally go to a former President won’t go to DJT.
Ideally, it won’t be a one-off, but a chance to rethink the dangers of an imperial presidency.
So – Obama’s presidential library should be the last.
The Former Presidents Act should be scaled back to secret-service protection only.
And no more having an on-premises, drug-dispensing-on-request, Physician to the President. Abolish the position, or at least make it an honor, for a senior doc, and thus closer to the Physician to the Queen. People talk about how the President is treated like an king, but doing so would be an improvement.
Limit the President to the normal vacation time allocated to federal employees when going to a golf course or rally. Have a White House inspector general, that the President can’t fire, keep his or her leave.
I’m sure there are modest, popular, ideas I haven’t thought of that would lower the presidential profile. If they applied to Biden, it would be hard for many Republicans to vote against them.
Ideally, Trump will flee to one of his UAE golf clubs, from which it will hard for him to oppose such a never-Trump-again agenda. A guy can dream, right :smack:
Well, you know, both sides have agreed that it’s probably a bad idea, har har har. No need to wonder why, peoples! Both sides, OK? Both sides.
I didn’t say anything about “who started it”. :rolleyes:
Trump did.
Well, maybe they should have led the story off with the fact that Obama doesn’t have any interest in attending his portrait unveiling by Trump at the White House.
Would that have been better?
Cite please.
Who is the first so called president to refuse this tradition? Cite, my fucking ass.
Obama also refused to attend.
I understand that you don’t want to answer the question.And I will no longer respond to your posts. Just trying to be polite about it.
Dude, seriously.
This borders on trolling. I know the concept of ‘cite?’ is venerated here. But that presupposes a complete lack of obliviousness.
Try harder. No warning issued.
How can he refuse to do something that’s not happening?
How can he refuse to attend when there’s been no invitation?
How can he refuse to attend when he has no right to without an invitation?
So far, I’ve only found one story that stated that Obama reportedly “has no interest” in having his portrait unveiled.
Yet to find even an actual quote.
It was in the OP’s own link. It was also linked in post #11. But I’m somehow oblivious.
Yeah, I read it and am not surprised considering how shitty Trump has been toward Obama since he was inaugurated.
If DJT had an ounce of class he would invite Obama and then when Obama declined he would still go ahead and have a ceremony just like any previous President would do. Instead he yet again shows himself to be a petty, childish, narcissistic asshole.
This is incorrect. DJT refused to hold the traditional ceremony to unveil the portrait. It then appears when asked an Obama spokesperson indicated he wouldn’t be interested in attending if there were a ceremony.
As I pointed out in my previous post - if Trump had an ounce of class in his childish, vindictive, narcissistic soul he would have a ceremony, extend the invitation and then if Obama declined, DJT would end up looking like the bigger man. Instead, he petulantly says he’s not gonna have a ceremony for Obama and shows the world what a small, insecure and petty little man he is.
Also said he’s not interested. You stated he refused to attend.
Link the source that clearly uses the word refused.
A politician should accept criticism coming with the game. But there gets to a point where the insults have been both too extreme (birtherism, which last I heard Trump blames on Hillary Clinton) and too recent (blaming Obama for COVID-19, “OBAMAGATE!”, and deliberately ambiguous mention of 50 years in prison) to be turned aside.
I am for going high when they go low. I’m not for visiting the emperor in his palace, while reporters wait to see how long Trump holds back insults. If Donald ever offers Barack the opportunity, and there’s no indication of a Trump personality change, President Obama should decline. Some might not think it bigger, but it would be wiser.
Attend what?
Morally, Donald Trump is a white supremacist in a business suit. Intellectually, he is the personification of, “Beavis and Butt-head Do America”.
This makes me wonder whether Biden, if he were elected, would invite Trump for an unveiling ceremony.
And speaking of which, just what would Trump’s portrait look like? Would it depict him sitting on a throne or wearing an ermine robe?
Or would he go for something like this: