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amid growing anger over President Donald Trump’s $300 million ballroomHis administration has revised the “timeline of major events” on the official White House website to include scandals affecting prior Democratic administrations.
The Trump administration’s latest efforts to troll Democrats have targeted former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, as well as former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
It comes just like the parties do Demolishing the historic East Wing to include the President in his 90,000-square-foot ballroom, which he said was being paid for with private funds.
Trump officials included a slide on the White House website calling Hunter Biden an “admitted drug user”, photos of Clinton with his arm around Monica Lewinsky, and a photo of Obama with a member of the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist movement.
On his official X account, the White House Posted a link on Thursday On the new timeline, along with the nail polish emoji, is often used to express dullness or carelessness.
In addition to the scandals of prior Democratic administrations, the timeline ignored the first Trump administration and only included information about the major construction of 1791.
Starting with the White House Briefing Room in 1970, the timeline jumps to the “Bill Clinton scandal” with Monica Lewinsky in 1998.
The entry, accompanied by a photo of Clinton with Lewinsky, read, “President Bill Clinton’s affair with intern Monica Lewinsky was exposed, leading to a White House perjury investigation. Oval Office efforts led to impeachment for obstruction.”
Then, 14 years passed without any major incident until 2012 when “Obama hosted members of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Obama met with former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Islamic movement, at the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. Obama administration officials met with the group in April 2012 as part of “routine diplomatic outreach”. Reporting at that time.
The Obama administration reported at the time that prominent Republicans, including Senators Lindsey Graham and the late John McCain, had also met with members of the Muslim Brotherhood. politico Informed. A bill was introduced but rejected by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) earlier this year calling for the group to be designated a terrorist organization.
The only event featured in the timeline of the first Trump administration is the 2020 construction of the White House Tennis Pavilion, which was overseen by First Lady Melania Trump.
Trump officials took a dig at Hunter Biden and chose to portray its 2023 “Cocaine Discovery” entry with a photo of him semi-nude with a cigarette in his mouth in a bathtub.
Post about Hunter Biden highlights a 2023 incident where a bag Cocaine was discovered in the White House By a Secret Service agent during his father’s presidency.
Hunter Biden denied that the drugs were his and the Secret Service investigation remained inconclusive due to the lack of “latent fingerprints” and “insufficient DNA”.
The website also attacked the Biden and Harris administrations for acknowledging International Transgender Day of Visibility in 2023 and 2024, an annual event that was launched more than a decade ago and is celebrated every year on March 31.
The slide reads, “The Biden/Harris Administration will host transgender people in the White House in 2023 and will establish “The Transgender Day of Visibility” on Easter Sunday in 2024.”
MAGA members enjoyed the administration’s latest troll on social media.
“Wow! President Trump’s White House majorly trolls Democrats by adding a “timeline of major events” to the official website,” wrote conservative influencer Eric Dougherty. He added, “I love it.”
Another person said, “If you need a laugh tonight and/or a reminder of how amazing your President is, please take a few minutes to go to the White House website, scroll down to the timeline of major events and flip through… I’m honestly mortified.”
Others were not so impressed.
“We’re living in hell,” Jess Piper, a grassroots campaigner in Missouri, responded to BlueSky.
“Pretty useless, but what do you expect from a useless administration,” someone else commented on X.
“Why I always think it can’t get worse… In today’s “Holy S***, What Now” installation, the White House added this under a timeline of major events,” said another.
The government enters its 23rd day of shutdown as Trump moves toward demolishing the East Wing to make way for his ballroom.
“In fact, I think we raised $350 million,” the president said at an event at the White House on Thursday. “It’s all donor money and money that we’ve put in, we’ve raised – it’s going to be, it’s going to cost around $300 million.”
“The optics are not good,” said GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. NBC News.
And according to recent polling, the ballroom plans haven’t landed well with many Americans. A YouGov voting The poll conducted on Tuesday showed that 53 percent of people disapproved of demolishing part of the East Wing for renovation.
Faced with questions about the construction Thursday, White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt urged Americans to “trust the process” and defended the administration’s transparency on the project.