The Biden plaque refers to him as “Sleepy Joe Biden” and calls him “the worst President in American History.”
WASHINGTON — The White House has installed plaques on the exterior of the building bashing President Donald Trump’s predecessors, including Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, and promoting disinformation about their administrations.
The plaques were hung up below presidential portraits that have been on display on Trump’s recently added “Presidential Walk of Fame” in the White House colonnade.
The one placed under the portrait of the “Autopen,” which stands in for President Joe Biden’s portrait, refers to him as “Sleepy Joe Biden” and calls him “the worst President in American History.” The plaque contains a number of derisive statements about the former president, referring to Biden’s “severe mental decline,” “the Biden Crime Family” and his “Radical Left handlers.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told NBC News in a statement that Trump wrote the text of “many” of the plaques.
“The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind,” she said. “As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself.”
The plaque says that Biden took office in the White House “as a result of the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States,” alluding to the 2020 presidential election whose results Trump sought to overturn. It accuses Biden of overseeing “a series of unprecedented disasters that brought our Nation to the brink of destruction,” noting the inflation that developed during his presidency, denouncing the Inflation Reduction Act as the “Green New Scam” and blasting his administration’s immigration policies.
“His Afghanistan Disaster was among the most humiliating events in American History,” the plaque says, noting the deaths of 13 U.S. service members during the 2021 withdrawal. “Seeing Biden’s devastating weakness, Russia invaded Ukraine, and Hamas terrorists launched the heinous October 7th attack on Israel,” it says.
It also references Biden’s poor performance in the 2024 presidential debate, saying, “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’s office declined to comment.
Obama’s plaque names him as “Barack Hussein Obama” — the former president’s full name, which is often used derisively in right-wing circles. Calling him “one of the most divisive figures in American history,” the plaque details what the Trump administration paints as his failures, including Obamacare, which it calls “the highly ineffective ‘Unaffordable’ Care Act.”
“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 plaque says.
Obama’s plaque also repeats Trump’s conspiracy theory that Obama “spied” on his 2016 presidential campaign and says he “presided over the creation of the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, the worst political scandal in American History.”
Obama’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
President Bill Clinton’s plaque ends with the fact that Trump beat Clinton’s wife, Hillary, in the 2016 presidential election. Clinton’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The two plaques summarizing Trump’s time as president describe his leadership in glowing terms.
The one detailing his first four years says during that period, he “signed the Largest Tax Cuts in History, built a booming Economy, eliminated a record number of Federal Regulations, rebuilt the United States Military, terminated the Iran Nuclear Deal and the Paris Climate Accords, ended the NAFTA disaster, destroyed the ISIS Caliphate, signed the historic Abraham Accords, and created the Greatest Economy in the History of the World.”
The plaque also boasts about Trump’s second term, including his sweeping tariffs, hard-line immigration policies and says he “removed Critical Race Theory and transgender insanity from public schools, and banned men from women’s sports.”
“He began the construction of the Golden Dome missile defense shield, renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, and has built, right here at the White House, the magnificent Trump Presidential Ballroom after a 225 year wait — but THE BEST IS YET TO COME!”
The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about how the plaques were paid for, whether government funds were used and whether they were installed by government employees.
The new plaques drew mixed reactions from Republicans on Capitol Hill.
“I’m really disturbed by that,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, who often bucks her party, told NBC News.
“These are individuals who served who were elected by people around this country. Whether I supported them or not, they were the country’s president,” Murkowski said. “Let’s not have President Trump trying to redefine the contributions or lack of contributions of each. That’s inappropriate.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, a staunch Trump ally, indicated the plaques were not a concern.
“I don’t think that’s going to move the ball for us. There may be some amusement there,” he said before pivoting to the 2026 midterm elections. “But the bottom line is, if we lose the House, he’s going to get impeached. We need to focus on, you know, fixing people’s problems. And the more we can focus on that, the better.”
Hunter Biden blames ‘distasteful’ Obama team for his foreign influence peddling — including ‘viper’s den’ of Ukraine
WASHINGTON — Former first son Hunter Biden is blaming the “really distasteful” “hypocrites” who worked for then-President Barack Obama for setting in motion his most controversial foreign business dealings during his father Joe Biden’s eight-year vice presidency.
Hunter, now 55, blamed Obama’s staff for forcing him to start back at “square one” because they were concerned about conflicts of interest in his domestic lobbying work, using a new 5 ½-hour podcast with “The Shawn Ryan Show” to blast former associates and powerful Democrats.
“Obama picked him to be vice president. And in so doing, he had a group of people that I find to be really distasteful and hypocrites, but they said that I needed to give up my [domestic lobbying work],” he said.
“I was working for these universities, but I was assisting them both in the legal and the policy perspective and lobbying to help them get money… I was a lobbyist and so I voluntarily, but with a lot of pressure from them, none from my dad, had to give up that business.”
Hunter said in his woe-be-me account that he had been earning money from “like 14, 15 Jesuit universities. And that was my entire practice and I was really proud of it.”
“And so I basically started back in square one,” he said.
“And I started a consulting firm because I also stepped down from the board of Amtrak because they said that that was a conflict of interest and they were concerned that it was a conflict of interest,” the disgraced former first son said.
“I had to rebuild and I didn’t have any savings — had three girls, all in private school at the time, and, you know, don’t have any money.”
Hunter said that he initially worked with new domestic clients, including a “large Midwestern infrastructure firm” after his dad became vice president in 2009, before joining in 2014 the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, which famously paid him $1 million per year despite no industry experience.
“I was very, very naive about what a viper’s den Ukraine is. What an absolute, like, talk about a, like, a level of corruption that [is] still staggering,” said Hunter, whose dad led the Obama administration’s Ukraine portfolio when he was raking in millions there.
“It was absolutely a mistake,” he said of the Burisma job, “not because of anything that I did that I am embarrassed about or in anyway whatsoever feel conflicted about as it relates to what I did for Burisma. But because of the political position that it put us all in.”
He brushed past his dealing with two Chinese government-linked entities, which paid him additional millions — including after he wrote in a 2017 text message that he was sitting with his dad and expecting payment — and laughed off concern about his art career later during his dad’s presidency.
“What f—ing foreign business are you talking about? I had a partner who was Chinese, who was part of a private equity company, and we were gonna invest in natural gas in the United States in an industry that I knew of. And it fell apart and it didn’t happen,” Hunter blustered.
“And I worked for, on the board of a Ukrainian gas company, and as a lawyer, I represented a guy that was from Romania for a three month period of time. There’s my foreign business. I never had any business with any foreign government ever, ever.”
He blasted his former “best friend in business” Devon Archer, whom President Trump pardoned in March for defrauding an American Indian tribe, for gaining his clemency after he “literally stuck his lips around the ass of [first sons] Don Jr. and Eric [Trump].”
Hunter Biden said he’s roughly $15 million in debt with no plan to pay it off after federal prosecutions and congressional investigations throughout his dad’s four-year term of office.
He didn’t mention specific debtors, presumably including Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris, who spent at least $6.5 million to bankroll Hunter’s defense and Los Angeles lifestyle, including covering his $17,500 monthly rent.
The former first son didn’t spare his dad’s administration from criticism, blasting his disastrous 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan and illegal immigration, which surged on his father’s watch.
“One of the failures was the way in which they executed the withdrawal from Afghanistan. I think it was an obvious f–king failure. I think 13 Marines are dead. I think that there was a better way to do it,” he said.
“I can blame it on his generals. I can blame it on… the way in which we did it. But my dad always knew this also is that the buck stops with him.”
On illegal immigration, Hunter Biden surprisingly sounded like Trump, saying: “We need immigration, we need a vibrant immigration, but we don’t want immigrants that are coming here illegally draining us of resources and being prioritized above people that are actual literal heroes that are coming home or that are still recovering from 21, 20 years of endless war or anybody else in our society.”
One Democratic source jokingly referred to the book-length interview as “the podcast from Hell” — a reference to Hunter’s infamous laptop containing embarrassing photos and documents linking his dad to foreign patrons across the globe.
A former Biden aide, who admitted they hadn’t listened to the sprawling soliloquy, said Hunter is entitled to his own views, and that his sniping at Obama’s aides was understandable because “they hated his dad from the beginning and were actively mean and dismissive.”
Hunter also sought to turn the tables on the Trump administration on tape, arguing he had more experience to justify his foreign work than businessman Steve Witkoff has to serve as Trump’s special envoy to the Mideast and Russia.
“Witkoff… has zero experience. Everybody says that I don’t have experience. I was a f–king adjunct professor at Georgetown University School of Foreign F–king Service,” he exclaimed.
He insisted that his tax fraud, for which his dad last pardoned him after he pleaded guilty, stemmed from his addiction to crack cocaine and the fact that his accountant died, and argued that his illegal gun-possession conviction, for which he also was pardoned, won’t be a constitutionally valid rap for long due to a pending court case.
Hunter Biden served no prison time for either set of crimes after his father’s pardon last December — despite similarly situated offenders often being put behind bars.
Hunter says he’s concerned about influence-peddling
Hunter Biden spent much of the interview portraying Trump and his family as far worse than him when it comes to alleged corruption, saying he would be surprised if the current president leaves the White House and “the copper pipes are still in the walls” and saying “they are profiting off the presidency directly profiting and directly.”
The former first son’s remarks come after first lady Melania Trump recently threatened to sue him for falsely claiming she was introduced to the president by the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and his commentary could invite further legal threats.
“Don Jr opened up a club in Georgetown called the Executive Club, and he’s charging people… a $500,000 initiation fee to join the club with the stated purpose of the club being, it is the place where you can come and rub shoulders with the decision makers in his father’s administration,” Hunter said.
“Well, don’t forget about Gaza… They’re gonna redevelop Gaza. And where are they gonna get the money to do it? They’re gonna get the money from the Saudi royal family. They’re gonna get it from the Emiratis, they’re gonna get it from the Qataris, they’re gonna get it from the Russians. They’re gonna get it from the oligarchs.”
“I’m not joking,” Hunter Biden insisted. “It is the most openly corrupt [administration]. Everything that they do is projection or confession.”
Barack Obama Opens Up About ‘Turbulent’ Years in Marriage to Michelle Obama
Former U.S. President Barack Obama has shared surprising insights into his three-decade marriage to Michelle Obama, revealing that their relationship once endured a period of intense strain.
“I was in the doghouse with my wife. And so, I’d try to get out of the doghouse by occasionally doing something fun,” Obama candidly shared during a conversation on April 3 with Hamilton College President Steven Tepper, as reported by The Daily Beast.
Barack Obama has previously noted that serving two consecutive terms as president (2009–2017) took a significant toll on his marriage.
In an interview in May 2023, he admitted: “I have to say, being out of the White House and having more time with her has been a wonderful thing.” He also praised Michelle, describing her as someone who is “forgiving of my flaws.”
For her part, the former First Lady caused a stir in December 2022 when she revealed she “couldn’t stand” her husband for an entire decade—specifically when their daughters, Malia (now 27) and Sasha (24), were young. She emphasized that she wasn’t being bitter or petty in making that admission.
According to Michelle Obama, “Marriage is never 50/50.” She explained: “There are times I’m 70, he’s 30. There are times he’s 60, 40. But guess what? Out of 30 years, if I take 10 bad years—I’ll take it. It’s just how you look at it.”
The couple married in October 1992. Recently, they have been the subject of several divorce rumors, particularly since January 2025, when Barack Obama attended several high-profile political events without his wife, including the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter and the inauguration of Donald Trump.
However, a source close to the family has dismissed the rumors, asserting that Michelle Obama has simply stepped back from Washington political life. An individual who previously worked with the Obamas told Page Six: “They were never trying to be Camelot. They weren’t trying to be the perfect couple.”
Michelle and Barack Obama prove they’re still going strong with cozy Christmas pic
Michelle Obama and Barack Obama cuddled up for a cozy Christmas snap on Thursday.
“Merry Christmas!” Michelle wrote via Instagram. “Barack and I send you our heartfelt wishes for a blessed holiday and joyful start to the new year.”
In the social media upload, the couple put their arms around each other while standing in front of trees wrapped in twinkle lights.
Michelle Obama and Barack Obama posed for a smiling Christmas photo on Thursday.
Barack, 64, paired an all-black outfit with a tan jacket, while Michelle, 61, showed some skin in a lacy black dress.
The pair’s adult children — Malia, 27, and Sasha, 24 — did not appear in the post.
The pair’s A-list followers, including “One Tree Hill” alum Sophia Bush, gushed over how “stunning” Michelle looked in her daring ensemble.
Michelle, pictured above in October, rocked a sultry lace dress in the social media upload.
Andy Cohen, for his part, commented, “We miss you.”
Barack shared the same holiday snap to his Story, writing, “Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.”
The former president and Michelle similarly posted a smiling shot for Thanksgiving last month — that time, with their daughters included.
The couple have been married since 1992.
“During this season of giving, let’s do what we can to give back to the communities that have given us so much,” they captioned a joint November post. “From our family to yours, have a wonderful Thanksgiving!”
Michelle and Barack have been married since 1992 and are still going strong despite rampant divorce speculation earlier this year.
The couple addressed the rumors directly on Michelle’s “IMO” podcast in June.
The politician poked fun at headlines, joking, “She took me back! It was touch and go for a while.”
Michelle denied marital woes during the episode, clarifying, “There hasn’t been one moment in our marriage where I have thought about quitting my man.
“We’ve had some really hard times and we’ve had a lot of fun times, a lot of adventures and I’ve become a better person because of the man I’m married to,” the former first lady continued at the time.
Michelle Obama Stuns in a Sheer, Plunging Black Lace Dress to Celebrate Christmas With Barack
The former First Couple shared their “heartfelt wishes for a blessed holiday.”
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- Former First Couple Barack and Michelle Obama are sending holiday well-wishes to their social media followers.
- The pair shared the same photo on December 25, both with their own uplifting Christmas messages.
- In the photo, Michelle wears a sheer, plunging black dress worn under a long sleeve black turtleneck shrug.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama are sending holiday greetings in a fashion-forward way.
On December 25, the former First Couple posted a message on Instagram, Michelle in a sheer, plunging black dress with gold detailing, worn under a long sleeve black turtleneck shrug. Her husband stood beside her, his arm wrapped around her, in a black ensemble worn under a tan coat, festive holiday lights visible in the background.
“Merry Christmas!” the former First Lady wrote on Thursday. “Barack and I send you our heartfelt wishes for a blessed holiday and joyful start to the new year.”
The former president shared the same photo on X, writing in his caption, “Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.”
In addition to their own posts, the Obama Foundation shared a throwback photo of the couple standing in front of a Christmas tree, Michelle in a plunging animal print dress with dangling earrings and Barack in a tuxedo.
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“Merry Christmas from the Obama Foundation!” the post read. “May your Christmas be filled with unwrapping new possibilities and the warmth of time spent with your loved ones!”
In a December 15 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Michelle shared the staggering number of Christmas cards she and her husband send each year, telling Kimmel, “You know, we checked—it’s over 100,000.”
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“But that incorporates friends, family, business people, [and] foundation people, so it’s a lot of folks that we want to thank,” she clarified.
Michelle also told Kimmel that she’s the maestro behind the Obama family’s gift-giving process at Christmas, telling the talk show host that “Everybody gets a gift, [but] I’m generally the one who is orchestrating it.”
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As for whether Barack gets high-quality gifts, Michelle clarified, “He does,” adding that her husband often asks “Meredith Koop, my stylist” for advice on what to get his wife.
“You know, he tried for a few years, early on in our lives, and I would open it up like, ‘Oh yeah, you tried,’” she said with a laugh.
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