(Washington) Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama will return to the White House on September 7 to revive a tradition broken by former President Donald Trump: the presentation with great fanfare of their official portraits.
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They will be received at 1:30 p.m. local time by President Joe Biden – former vice president of Barack Obama – and his wife Jill Biden, in one of the reception rooms of the White House, according to an executive statement. American.
This is the second time that the former Democratic president, very popular in his camp, has returned to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
He made a publicized appearance there in April, for a public event devoted to health spending, the opportunity for Joe Biden and him to re-enact their camaraderie.
The tradition in the United States is that the president invites his predecessor and his wife to the official hanging of their portraits at the White House.
Republican Donald Trump, who broke with many protocol uses of this kind, and who had multiplied the attacks against the first black president of the United States, had not done so.
His administration had also, according to the American media, moved the official portraits of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Exhibited in the entrance hall of the White House, as is the custom which commands to leave the best seats to the last two occupants of the premises, their portraits had been relegated by the Republican billionaire to a little used room of the residence. presidential.
The portraits of the “First Ladies” adorn a long corridor on the ground floor of the residence of the American presidents.