during today s event, the former president echoed the point he made back in 2012, that presidents are renters at the white house, and that their time there is temporary. i ve always described the presidency as ays relay race, y take the baton from someone, you run your leg as hard and as well as you can, and then you hand it off to someone else. knowing that your work will be incomplete. the portraits hanging in the white house chronicle theit runners in thatth race. each of us tasked with trying to bring the country we love closer toy its highest aspirations. now the reason this event was heldth today and not during trump s term in office, the reason it hasp been a decade since we ve seen one of these unveilings is because for the first time in u.s. history, the incumbent president refused to honor his predecessor with this rite of passage. trump never scheduled the ceremony and given the content, it might have been awkward for trump given his intention of not leaving t
it might have been awkward for trump given his intention of not leaving the white house when his termus was up. it stands in stark contrast to the person who thought he owned the place and tried overthrow the results of a legitimate election and would have preferred that the president being red lined. and ntrejecting obama s leg cir and rejecting inclusion and eventually rejecting the will of the people. you saw it early. you saw this early in 2011, when trump went on national tv saying president obama should show his papers, show his birth certificate, those claimsrs continuedif through the years along with the falseug assertio that obama must beon muslim, no deserving the office of the presidency. he saw trump come down that escalator in 2015 to announce