{"id":159267,"date":"2025-09-25T09:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159267\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T09:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:43:07","slug":"trump-hangs-autopen-photo-instead-of-biden-portrait-in-new-presidential-gallery-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159267\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump hangs autopen photo instead of Biden portrait in new presidential gallery | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> has added a \u201cPresidential Walk of Fame\u201d to the exterior of the White House, featuring portraits of each of the previous commanders-in-chief \u2013 except for one.<\/p>\n

Instead of a headshot of Joe Biden<\/a>, the Republican incumbent instead placed a photo of an autopen signing the Democrat\u2019s name \u2013 a reference to Trump\u2019s frequent allegation that the former president was addled by the end of his term in office and not really the one making decisions.<\/p>\n

The snub is the latest attempt by Trump to delegitimise a predecessor he routinely belittles, including in front of more than 100 world leaders on Tuesday at the UN general assembly gathering. Trump has never acknowledged his own defeat to Biden in the 2020 election, instead falsely chalking up the outcome to voter fraud.<\/p>\n

Trump had previously signalled he would represent Biden with an autopen on the walkway. Trump has alleged without evidence that Biden administration officials may have forged their boss\u2019s signature by using the autopen and taken broad actions he was not aware of.<\/p>\n

He has also cast doubt on the validity of pardons and other documents that Biden signed with an autopen, even though other presidents before him have also relied on the device to sign key papers. A Republican-led House committee is investigating the Biden administration\u2019s autopen use.<\/p>\n

White House staff sent out a burst of social media posts on Wednesday afternoon gleefully promoting the finished project. The media may get its first in-person glimpse of the display when Trump hosts a dinner on Wednesday night on the new Rose Garden patio that sits adjacent to the West Wing Colonnade on which the portraits hang.<\/p>\n

The addition is the latest in a series of design changes he has made at the White House since resuming office. The president also added gold flourishes to the Oval Office walls, installed massive new flagpoles on both lawns, replaced the grass in the Rose Garden with patio stone and started construction on a large new ballroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump has added a \u201cPresidential Walk of Fame\u201d to the exterior of the White House, featuring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-159267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}