{"id":362666,"date":"2025-12-21T23:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362666\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:22:09","slug":"fact-checking-trumps-plaques-for-past-presidents-at-the-white-house-walk-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362666\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-checking Trump\u2019s plaques for past presidents at the White House \u2018Walk of Fame\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article originally appeared on\u00a0PolitiFact<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a break from tradition, President Donald Trump decorated a White House walkway with bronze plaques for each U.S. president. In an even sharper break with tradition, the plaques were written in a style echoing Trump\u2019s Truth Social posts, with misleading or false descriptions of recent Democratic presidents.<\/p>\n

Former President Joe Biden, who Trump calls \u201cSleepy Joe,\u201d is represented not by a portrait but by a photograph of an autopen, the use of which Trump has\u00a0falsely<\/a>\u00a0said invalidates Biden\u2019s pardons.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Trump snubs Biden with autopen photo in new White House portrait collection<\/a><\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s plaque says he took office \u201cas a result of the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States.\u201d\u00a0That\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0false<\/a>. Trump and his allies filed dozens of lawsuits contesting the 2020 election results; they lost\u00a0more than 60<\/a>. And a group of Republicans, including former federal judges, examined Trump\u2019s statements about fraud and miscounting and found they didn\u2019t present evidence that would invalidate the election results.<\/p>\n

The plaque also says Biden oversaw the \u201chighest Inflation ever recorded.\u201d While inflation was the highest in four decades under Biden, the\u00a0highest<\/a>\u00a0ever occurred in the late 1970s and early 1980s.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Fact-checking Trump\u2019s speech on inflation, wages and a military dividend<\/a><\/p>\n

Former President Barack Obama\u2019s plaque calls him \u201cone of the most divisive political figures in American History,\u201d even though his retrospective favorability rating in 2025 is the\u00a0highest<\/a>\u00a0of any of the past five presidents, at 59% favorable, according to Gallup. Trump\u2019s favorable rating in the same poll was 48%.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s plaque said his Affordable Care Act \u2014 which made it easier to obtain health insurance when employers don\u2019t offer it \u2014 was \u201chighly ineffective.\u201d The percentage of uninsured Americans\u00a0dropped<\/a>\u00a0from 14.8% in 2012, before the law was fully implemented, to 8.6% in 2016, Obama\u2019s final year in office.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s plaque says he \u201cspied on the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Donald J. Trump,\u201d but multiple independent investigations, including bipartisan Senate reports,\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0no political influence over the FBI investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

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