A torrent of the words that are accompanied by the media, where people learned that the White House had replaced a picture Barack Obama In the main entrance hall with the president’s painting Donald Trump In the photo during an assassination attempt on June 2024 in Bater, Pennsylvania. It was presented in a modern style, and the blood nominated image shows flowing on his face, and his fist high in a challenge, and shouting to his sudden supporters, “fighting! Fight!”
Some may criticize the taste of portrait, the wisdom of placing it in such a prominent position, or the unprecedented nature of a government prime minister that displays himself on the governmental floor of the executive palace, which is usually allocated to the traditional images of former presidents. However, presidents can choose the paintings that must be hung at the entrance and along the hall that connects the state’s dining room to the eastern room. For example, the Biden administration has taken a bilateral party approach with Obama and George WW Bush Pictures in the main lobby, JFK and RIGAN on both sides of the dining room entrance, Johnson, Clinton, Carter, and Ford Visible outside the eastern room.
Like Trump, all presidents aspire to be heroic, but some are more accurate, even modest, more than others than their actions before breastfeeding in courage. The victorious American generals and other senior officers have installed their fame along the way to the presidency, but they are not always highlighted once in his position. George Washington (Revolutionary War), Andrew Jackson (War of 1812), William Henry Harrison (Northwest India War and the 1812 War, and Zakari Taylor (1812 war, US Mexican War), both the American War War (World War War). Their military experiences contributed to decisions on the defense policy, but they usually did not shown themselves in the battles.
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Other military warriors who saw the fighting, including most of the seven war chiefs, as well as Harry Truman (World War I), and John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, and George Haw Bush (World War II), they served proudly and felt a strong connection with their former courses in the weapon. However, they rarely boast about their service, which can speak for itself.
Of course, the party’s 1840’s logo was for WH Harrison and his colleague in running, John Tyler, rhyme, “Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.” The voters reminded Harrison’s victory in 1811 in Indiana’s lands over the original tribes.
Compare it with Eisenhower’s iconic campaign buttons and television advertisements that simply declared, “I love you.” Everyone was aware of his stellar service as the leader of the highest allies, who led the invasion of 1944 to say Hitler Europe. There is no need to be uploaded to the 1952 or 1956 campaigns. When John Kennedy He was asked how he became a war champion in the South Pacific. [the Japanese] I sank my boat. Labor Party 109About how he saved the balance of his crew after an enemy destroyer cut off a boat in his engine in two parts while he was patrolling in the Solomon Islands on one of the dark nights in 1943.
Trump exceeded the military service of the Vietnam War, with a 4 -f draft, from bone diagnosis. Avoid the assassination through the fast reactions to avoid hitting the direct bullet, then the bounce to display its flexibility, and provided an ideal plate to emphasize survival skills. He believed that he was under a pictorial fire from the legal system, the media, universities and political elites. In Pennsylvania on the amazing Saturday afternoon, literally appeared in the shooting clips. During the remaining period of the 2024 campaign and now in the White House, he promoted his image as an alert leader, by the Almighty to make America great again.
Other presidents have escaped assassination attempts and dealt with antiquities in various ways, depending on their personalities. Theodore Roosevelt, whose traditional image in the eastern room, took a bullet to her chest during his campaign as a third -party candidate in 1912. His story and thick folded speech manuscript in his chest pocket limited the penetration of the round. TR continued with the event before removing the bullet. Perhaps the closest president to Pravado Trump and Bragadoco was boasting, “It takes more than one bullet to kill the Eur Moss. [the nickname of his Progressive Party]”
His cousin, President -elect Franklin Roosevelt, was almost a victim of a killer 17 days before his first opening in 1933. He gave a speech in Miami from the back of an open car when the shots were sober. The FDR was safe, but the mayor of Chicago Anton Sermak received a abdominal wound. Roosevelt remained calm, confirming the crowd, “I am fine.” When the car rushed to the hospital, the president, the mayor, who died two weeks after medical complications. Although there were no pictures of FDR immediately after the shooting, the stories of his grace under fire spread through the media and gave an additional rest to the nation that was transferred to depression when he announced in his opening speech that “the only thing that we should fear is the fear itself.” In fact, like many of Trump’s supporters, voters in Roosevelt believe their hero has survived a higher power.
Ronald Reagan used the humor to deviate from the deadly shooting by John Hinkeli, where the President appeared from Washington Hilton in 1981. Even when he was putting white as a card of internal bleeding at George Washington Hospital, he mocked his amazing wife, First Lady Nancy Reagan, “Hani, I forgot the duck.”
For surgeons before they numbed him, the president joked, “I hope you are all Republicans“This reported report reassured the nation because it waited for the president after the surgery. Once enough to speak to Congress The next month, Wan Regan admits the insomnia and Wan Regan, the loud applause from both sides in the room and then put everyone in comfort with a distinctive story. He pointed out that a boy wrote his desires to obtain his desires with Bosibet, “I hope you will not have to deliver a speech in your pajamas!” The shock of Mrs. Reagan pushed her to the brush of her beloved husband to consulting astrology on how to maintain a “Rooney” safe for the two assumptions that he will serve. Imagine how annoyed her from facing her home in her home.
In 1950, two nationalists opened Puerto Rico fire on Blair House, where President Harry Truman lived during the renewal of the White House. Half from a nap in the afternoon, moved to the window and witnessed one of the potential killers at the threshold of a threshold that started from fire to his head and the secret service worker with fatal wounds. Did you ask a painting from the heinous scene? No, he followed his agenda on that day, and commented, “The president must expect these things.”
Andrew Jackson was the first president to face an assassination. In 1835, the Capitol left Jackson, one of the attackers approaching him with drawn pistols. Both failed to shoot, and the hero of the New Orleans battle, with the mood of hair activation, began to get rid of the potential killer. Before photography, stone photos appeared from the accident. Jackson is not known to be in his home.
In fact, the presidential panels, from Washington to Obama, are displayed in the White House, traditionally depicting their citizens in work clothes and official positions. They are rarely presented at work as politicians, or in their previous career as military officers, farmers, businessmen or lawyers. Most of the presidents relied on the dignity of the CEO as a source of their strength, while Trump tends to extract his sense of power from his unique personality and now the story of his resurrection from the Bater stage. Especially in the contemporary media era, with the emergence of Christian nationalism, this presidential image may be inevitable and effective for 45Y And 47Y president.
Barbara a. Perry is the professor of government in c. Wilson Newman at the Miller Center at UVA. Follow it on Blueskybarbaraperryuva.
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