US President Donald Trump took a swipe at former President Joe Biden during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the White House, turning a tour of his newly installed presidential portraits into a joke about his predecessor.
Trump and Xi were walking through the White House colonnade on Thursday when the US president stopped at the Presidential Walk of Fame, a row of portraits of former commanders-in-chief. Biden is the only former president whose portrait is not displayed alongside the other commanders-in-chief in the row. An autopen instead represents him, a reference to Trump’s repeated criticism of Biden’s use of the machine to sign official documents. “The President mocking a former President in front of the communist leader of China is the most un-American thing an American president has ever done.
“And, this is the autopen,” he said, pointing towards Biden’s portrait as Xi burst into laughter. “Let’s be very clear on this one point,” Delaney wrote on X. “An American President mocking another American President to the communist leader of China is … gross and unAmerican”, she wrote. “President Trump and Xi Jinping laughing together over the Biden autopen portrait has to be the HIGHLIGHT of the day so far,” he said.
