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President Donald Trump has installed new plaques on the Presidential Walk of Fame in the White House Rose Garden, which displays portraits of the 47 U.S. presidents.
Trump is known for replacing former President Joe Biden's photo with an autopen, a jab at the 46th president's alleged illegal administrative actions, where he allegedly passed authority to his inner circle, who then affixed Biden's signature with a robot pen, implying Biden did not actually run the White House.
White House reporters discovered the newly installed plaques beneath the photos on Wednesday morning, Dec. 17, which featured biographical information about the presidents, as written by the Trump White House.

Not only was a picture of an autopen placed where Biden's portrait should have been, but the word "AUTOPEN" was inscribed in place of his name, along with his tenure, 2021-2025. Biden was dubbed "Sleepy Joe Biden" and "the worst president in U.S. history," while Obama's middle name, "Hussein," was emphasized. Obama was also referred to as "one of the most divisive politicians in U.S. history."
The White House listed Biden's alleged election rigging in 2020 and his catastrophic record that "brought our nation to the brink of ruin," including record-high inflation, mass illegal immigration, the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, and the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars.
It also mocked Biden's "severe mental decline," his "humiliating defeat" in the 2024 election, his persecution of white people, Christians, and conservatives, including President Trump, and his use of autopen pardons for Democrats and criminals. The plaque read: "Nevertheless, President Trump will save America by winning in an overwhelming landslide!"

Obama's plaque, engraved with "Barack Hussein Obama," stated: "The first Black president of the United States, a community organizer, a one-term senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive politicians in American history."
The plaque also criticized his achievements, including his healthcare reform (ACA), sluggish economy, ISIS, Russia's invasion of Crimea, abuses of American workers and business owners, the Iran nuclear deal, and the Paris climate accord, adding, "Both of which were subsequently terminated by President Donald J. Trump."
It continued: "Obama also spied on Donald J. Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and orchestrated the creation of the 'Russia, Russia, Russia' hoax, the worst political scandal in American history," adding, "His hand-picked successor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, would eventually lose the presidency to Donald J. Trump."
Meanwhile, for President Trump, the plaque beneath the 45th president's photo introduced him as someone who ran on the slogan "Make America Great Again" and was the first president in American history to not be a politician or military officer.
It also listed his achievements, including enacting the largest tax cuts in history, stimulating the economy by dismantling federal regulations, rebuilding the military, ending the Iran nuclear deal, withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, ending the NAFTA disaster, destroying the ISIS caliphate, and signing the Abraham Accords. It also added that he saved millions of lives worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic with Operation Warp Speed.
The plaque beneath the 47th president's photo mentioned that he was elected as a bridge president, the first in 132 years, and overcame the weaponization of law enforcement and two assassination attempts, while also garnering significant support, winning in 86% (2,700 out of 525) of American counties.
He declared an "American Golden Age" at his inauguration, and the plaque added that he secured the border, deported criminals, aided farmers, made cities safe, defeated inflation, lowered energy costs, and attracted trillions of dollars in record investments to America.
It also listed signing the largest tax deduction, cutting government spending, and signing deregulation; neutralizing Iranian nuclear facilities with Operation Midnight Hammer; increasing NATO member defense spending from 2% to 5% of GDP; reforming the international trade system and making America wealthy with historic tariffs; removing Critical Race Theory (CRT) and transgender madness from public schools and sports; commencing the construction of the Golden Dome missile defense system; renaming Culpmann to just America; and building a new White House ballroom after 225 years.
It concluded with the capitalized sentence: "THE BEST IS YET TO COME!"
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