Caption under Obama's portrait in the White House presidential gallery under Trump

Nothing speaks of confidence in one's own legacy quite like a string of insults immortalised on a memorial plaque beneath a predecessor's name.

American political culture never ceases to astonish, and the Trump years have brought a great deal that is new. Take, for instance, those pithy, tendentious definitions of his predecessors' presidencies, placed directly beneath their portraits in the new “gallery of fame”. Of Obama it says, roughly, the following:

Barack Hussein Obama was the first black president, a community organiser, a one-term Senator from Illinois, and one of the most controversial political figures in American history. As president, he passed the highly ineffective “Unaffordable” Care Act, as a result of which his party lost control of both chambers of Congress and lost the largest Republican majority in the House of Representatives since 1946. He presided over a country with a stagnant economy, approved a terrible nuclear deal with Iran, and signed the unilateral Paris climate accords, which were subsequently withdrawn from by President Donald Trump.

Under Obama, the caliphate of a terrorist organisation spread across the Middle East, and Libya descended into chaos. He paralysed small business with harsh rules and environmental red tape, ruined American miners, and used the tax service and the federal bureaucracy against his political opponents. Obama also spied on Donald J. Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and directed the creation of the “Russia hoax”, the worst political scandal in American history. His successor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom he personally chose, ultimately lost the presidential election to Donald J. Trump.

On the one hand, we understand that class has long since left political culture, and not only in America but across the whole world. The powerful of this world no longer even trouble to conceal that, for them, any means will do. On the other hand, one cannot fail to notice the rather peculiar manifestations of Trump's personality and character, as well as the grammatical errors, and their appearance in a text on the walls of the White House says even more than the content of the texts.

As for the facts described and the figure of Obama, he was, of course, the first to depart from presidential etiquette and the norms of decency, which also should not be forgotten, lest one be deceived by the pretty and proper image carefully constructed by political technologists and a worldwide empire of loyal media