The photo gallery, located along the West Colonnade linking the West Wing, home of the Oval Office, to the main White House building, was sighted by journalists on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump has installed a new set of controversial plaques beneath the portraits of past US leaders on what he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame inside the White House, using the displays to launch blistering political attacks on several former presidents, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
The photo gallery, located along the West Colonnade linking the West Wing, home of the Oval Office, to the main White House building, was sighted by journalists on Wednesday.
The corridor features portraits of America’s 45 presidents, each now accompanied by a written plaque personally attributed to Trump.
According to the inscriptions, Trump used the official White House space to criticise his immediate predecessor, Joe Biden, branding him the “worst President in American History” and accusing him of presiding over economic collapse, border chaos, foreign policy failures and what he described as a corrupt election.
One plaque refers to Biden as "Sleepy Joe.”
Biden’s plaques read: “Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History. Taking office as a result of the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States, Biden oversaw a series of unprecedented disasters that brought our Nation to the brink of destruction.
“His policies caused the highest Inflation ever recorded, leading the U.S. Dollar to lose more than 20% of its value in 4 years. His Green New Scam surrendered American Energy Dominance and, by abolishing the Southern Border, Biden let 21 million people from all over the World pour into the United States, including from prisons, jails, mental institutions, and insane asylums.
“His Afghanistan Disaster was among the most humiliating events in American History, and resulted in the murder of 13 brave American Servicemembers, with many others gravely wounded. Seeing Biden’s devastating weakness, Russia invaded Ukraine, and Hamas terrorists launched the heinous October 7th attack on Israel.
“Nicknamed both ‘Sleepy’ and ‘Crooked,’ Joe Biden was dominated by his Radical Left handlers. They and their allies in the Fake News Media attempted to cover up his severe mental decline, and his unprecedented use of the Autopen.
“Following his humiliating debate loss to President Trump in the big June 2024 debate, he was forced to withdraw from his campaign for re-election in disgrace. Biden weaponized Law Enforcement against his political opponent, while also persecuting many other innocent people. He left office issuing blanket pardons to Radical Democrat criminals and thugs, as well as members of the Biden Crime Family — But despite it all, President Trump would get Re-Elected in a Landslide, and SAVE AMERICA!”
Former President Barack Obama was accused of being one of the most divisive political figures in American History.
Trump’s inscriptions fault Obama for the Affordable Care Act, economic stagnation, the Iran nuclear deal, the Paris Climate Accord and the rise of ISIS during his tenure.
The plaques said, “Barack Hussein Obama was the first Black President, a community organizer, one term Senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political figures in American History.
“As President, he passed the highly ineffective ‘Unaffordable’ Care Act, resulting in his party losing control of both Houses of Congress, and the Election of the largest House Republican majority since 1946.
“He presided over a stagnant Economy, approved the terrible Iran Nuclear Deal, and signed the one-sided Paris Climate Accords, both of which were later terminated by President Donald J. Trump.”
The second plaque reads, “Under Obama, the ISIS Caliphate spread across the Middle East, Libya collapsed into chaos, and Russia invaded and took Crimea, in Ukraine. he crippled mall businesses with crushing regulation and environmental red tape, devastated American coal miners, and weaponized the IRS and Federal bureaucracies against his political opponents.
“Obama also spied on the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Donald J. Trump and presided over the creation of the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, the worst political scandal in American History. His handpicked successor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, would then lose the Presidency to Donald J. Trump.”
Meanwhile, a single plaque was installed for former President George W. Bush, offering a comparatively more mixed assessment.
While acknowledging Bush’s leadership after the September 11, 2001 attacks and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the inscription criticises the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, stating both “should not have happened.”
Bush’s single plaque reads: "The son of former President George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush was the Governor of Texas when he won the hotly contested 2000 Election for President. His Administration was largely defined by the vents of September 11, 2001 — The destruction of the World Trade Center, after which he led the war on terror.
“President Bush created the Department of Homeland Security, but started wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which should not have happened.
“He also enacted Tax Cuts, expanded Medicare, signed the No Child Left Behind education bill, and launched the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Shortly before the end of his Administration, a Global Financial Crisis and major Recession took place.”