22 Jan 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson would not criticise President Joe Biden for removing the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office a symbol of strong Anglo-American relations despite having done so when former President Barack Obama made the same gesture years before.
Mr Biden removed the bust of the wartime British leader, whose mother was American, from his White House office on Wednesday, replacing it with several other figures including those of Rosa Parks, Cesar Chavez, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Former President Donald Trump, an Anglophile, had famously returned the bust of Churchill to the Oval Office at his 2017 inauguration after it had been removed by his predecessor Barack Obama. So proud was Mr Trump of its return, that he posed with it alongside Britain’s then-Prime Minister Theresa May on her visit to Washington, DC.
Updated Jan 22, 2021 | 16:47 IST
After Twitter user Prayag Tiwari tweeted that Joe Biden is not his President simply because he s from India, #JoeBidenIsNotMyPreisdent made it to the top trends on Twitter. #JoeBidenIsNotMyPresident is trending on Twitter. | Image: AP/Twitter
Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States of America on January 20. Former president Donald Trump kept rejecting the election results till the last minute. Now, #JoeBidenIsNotMyPreisdent is trending on Twitter iin India.
The trend has caught the attention of several netizens and an Indian named Prayag Tiwari may be behind it. Just ahead of his swearing-in, Biden had tweeted, It s a new day in America.