So said the ostrich, as he buried his head in the sand.

And so said Donald Trump, as he omitted a portrait of President Joe Biden from his new “Presidential Walk of Fame” along the West Wing Colonnade.

They’re all there, from George Washington to the present. But in a petty, childish, vengeful, and revoltingly unstatesmanlike move, Trump substituted for Biden’s photograph — in a gilt frame to match all of the others — a picture of an autopen.

While many modern-day presidents and other officials have resorted to using the autopen on occasion, Trump has accused Biden of relying on it to hide his alleged (alleged by Trump) cognitive decline while in office.

And therein lies the real reason for this shameful display of hatred and meanness: In trying to “prove” that Biden was, for at least part of his presidency, mentally diminished, Trump hopes to be able to negate any of Biden’s executive orders and other actions that may not be to his (Trump’s) liking. In omitting his portrait, Trump symbolically erases Biden’s presidency . . . and as an added bonus, he doesn’t have to look at the face of a man who, for whatever reason, infuriates him beyond belief.

So there they are: A missing president, represented by a piece of mechanical equipment, stuck between two angry, scowling images of a tyrant whose vengeance knows no bounds.

And here he is, admiring his handiwork. I wonder what that young aide was thinking.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
9/25/25