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President Joe Biden has redecorated the Oval Office and it now includes portraits of some of America’s most prominent slaveholders: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton:
This is what President Biden sees from his side of the Resolute Desk. He chose presidential portraits of FDR, Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson & Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton.
(Photo: @washingtonpost )https://t.co/TD7N3wu49W pic.twitter.com/G2RMfjoLNb— Brendan Keefe (@BrendanKeefe) January 21, 2021
Thomas Jefferson is so toxic to Democrat politicians around the country that they were forced to rename their annual Jefferson-Jackson dinners:
Obama Family replaces slave holders Jefferson and Jackson as name of Colorado Democrats fundraising dinner https://t.co/qbtia2yDRP pic.twitter.com/o84f2xw3sF
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) December 20, 2017
Of note, President Biden is also honoring America’s most anti-immigrant president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who put American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps during WWII:
Out: Andrew Jackson
In: FDR
Read our exclusive piece on Biden's new Oval Office. https://t.co/ypXKg9xnft
— Annie Linskey (@AnnieLinskey) January 20, 2021
A portrait of Ben Franklin, who also personally owned slaves as well as profited from the sale of slave-trading advertising in his newspaper, will stand watch over the president’s left shoulder as he governs the nation:
President Biden has swapped out the portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office with one of Ben Franklin pic.twitter.com/npB0IbdbXQ
— Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) January 20, 2021
Also included in the redesign is a bust of Robert F. Kennedy, former Attorney General of the U.S. under his brother’s administration, which is a possible signal that President Biden is not afraid of using his position of power to benefit his family members:
Inside Biden's Oval Office:
Busts of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy flank a fireplace.
Behind the Resolute desk is a bust of Cesar Chavez.
A painting of Benjamin Franklin is intended to represent Biden's interest in following science.https://t.co/0nHmXwZIav
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 20, 2021
He is keeping the Resolute desk, however, last used by President Donald Trump:
President Biden kept the Resolute desk. A gift from Queen Victoria to Rutherford B. Hayes, it was made from timbers of the British ship HMS Resolute. Every president since has used the desk somewhere in The White House except Johnson, Ford & Nixon. Carter returned it to the Oval. pic.twitter.com/LxPKnR3DDp
— Brendan Keefe (@BrendanKeefe) January 21, 2021
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