White House Omits Joe Biden Portrait from New ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’ Outside the West Wing

President Donald Trump has unveiled a new installation at the White House, once again directing criticism at his predecessor, Joe Biden.

On X, White House communications adviser Margo Martin shared a video of the new “Presidential Walk of Fame” along the West Wing Colonnade. The walkway features portraits of past presidents in chronological order — but Biden’s image is missing.

Instead, in place of Biden’s portrait, there is a photo of an autopen, a device used by presidents to reproduce their signatures. Trump has repeatedly accused Biden’s administration of using the autopen to sign executive orders without his direct approval.

The display mirrors a meme Trump circulated in January, when he posted an image of an autopen signature framed between his two presidential portraits with the dates “2021–2025” in place of Biden’s.

Trump has long raised suspicions about Biden’s reliance on the autopen, though no evidence has confirmed his claims. In June, Biden, 82, dismissed the accusations, telling The New York Times that he personally signed all pardons and commutations during the final days of his presidency. “I made every single one of those,” he said, adding of his critics, “They know it.”

Despite Biden’s denials, Trump has continued to highlight the autopen issue. During a joint press conference with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer last week, Trump accused Biden of authorizing illegal actions. “Joe Biden wasn’t giving those orders,” Trump said. “The autopen was illegal. It was illegally used. He never gave the orders.”

He went further, suggesting that the only pardon Biden personally signed was for his son. “Those people are so guilty… They’re smart people, probably brilliant, but sick in ideology. They were running the autopen. And it was totally illegal.”

Before beginning his second term, Trump had already used the autopen theory to cast doubt on Biden’s final pardons — which included his son Hunter, Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark A. Milley, and members of the bipartisan House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

On March 17, Trump declared on Truth Social: “The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen.”