The former White House photographer shares 2 theories about Trump who hides the portrait of Obama
The former White House photographer, Pete Souza, had a question on Instagram on Tuesday for President Donald Trump, who, according to the reports, transferred the presidential portrait of former President Barack Obama to a less visible place in the White House: “Petty or racist?”
CNN reported Sunday that the president had ordered his staff to move the portrait to the top of the great staircase. The departure cited two familiar sources with the matter, and even reviewed a photo that shows the painting hanging in its new house of very easy, very unimportant.
Souza has shaded Trump blatally before, but seemed seriously worried about this news. The former White House photographer, who served during the administrations of Obama and President Ronald Reagan, explained his frustrations in a long place.
“There is a long -standing protocol/tradition where the portraits of former presidents are hanging,” Souza wrote on Tuesday on Instagram. “The most recent are exhibited in the great director, then in Cross Hall, then on the big staircase, in that order.”
“Everyone exhibits prominently so that visitors during the public tours of the White House would see the most recent presidents,” he continued. “(Other portraits such as Lincoln and Washington are prominently shown in the state dining room and the east room).”
Souza went on to excuse Trump without using his name, and criticized “the current occupant of the Oval Office” for transferring the portrait of Obama “to that hidden zone”, where “you cannot see publicly on tours of the White House and cannot be seen by the White House staff.”
The governor of California Gavin Newsom (D) has also ridiculed the movement in social networks.
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“Why was this?” Souza asked Tuesday blank on Tuesday at the end of his post. “Was it because President Obama lives free in the head of the current occupant? I would say he is quite petty. Or could there be another reason?”
Possibly, Trump has rejected more presidential norms than any of his predecessors, and has long demonstrated minor and racist trends. Obama’s portrait was first removed from the traditional place in the Great Foyer in April and hung in the east room, to leave space for a Trump paint.
Unlike Trump and his loyal band, Souza seems to yearn for past administrations.
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He accompanied Tuesday’s publication with his own photo, which caught Obama already the then first Lady Michelle Obama descending the great staircase in 2009, with the portraits of former presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry Truman appropriately adorning their walls.