Washington, Lincoln And Trump: Hegseth’s ‘war Department ‘ And Others Post Presidents Day Tributes

The Trump management is marking a vacation meant to grant nan nation’s first main executive pinch societal media messaging intended to comparison nan existent president to nan “father of nan country” and nan martyred president who led nan U.S. done nan Civil War.

On Monday, nan Pentagon’s charismatic societal media relationship (which uses nan administration’s preferred but unofficial sanction for nan Defense Department, nan “Department of War,” posted an image to X showing President Donald Trump pinch legendary presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln arrayed down him, pinch nan accompanying all-caps text: “HAPPY PRESIDENTS DAY.”

The glaring image of nan 47th president appears to beryllium taken from nan charismatic White House image taken up of his inauguration by Daniel Torok, nan ex-music video head turned main White House photographer.

But not to beryllium outdone, nan Department of Health and Human Services besides issued a Presidents Day connection putting Trump successful nan aforesaid pantheon arsenic Washington and Lincoln, this clip pinch what appeared to beryllium an AI-generated schematic showing each 3 broadside by side.

It wrote: “This Presidents Day, we grant nan leaders who shaped our federation and reaffirm our committedness to serving nan wellness and well-being of each American.”

The Treasury Department sewage successful connected nan action pinch yet different Trump-centric Presidents Day post, this clip showing Trump gesturing successful floor plan during remarks successful nan East Room, pinch nan image cropped truthful nan incumbent president is portrayed alongside nan life-sized image of Washington by Gilbert Stuart.

The 97-inch-tall painting, which is simply a transcript Stuart made of a 1796 image commissioned by Pennsylvania Senator William Bingham arsenic a gift for then-British premier curate Lord Lansdowne, has hung successful nan East Room for 226 years and was famously saved from demolition by then-first woman Dolley Madison earlier British troops nether Major General Robert Ross group nan White House ablaze during nan War of 1812.

The department’s station actively promoted Trump, penning that he is “setting nan shape for nan adjacent 250 years of American excellence” pinch “tax deals, waste and acquisition deals and bid deals.”

Not each furniture section chose to specifically characteristic Trump successful a station marking nan yearly holiday.

The Department of Agriculture, which is led by erstwhile America First Policy Institute leader Brooke Rollins, said it was commemorating nan time by giving “ode to our founding fathers, particularly our first president George Washington and USDA's laminitis Abraham Lincoln.”

But nan USDA has antecedently chosen to elevate Trump alongside Lincoln successful an moreover much visible way, pinch a brace of monolithic banners that were hung extracurricular nan building since past year, depicting Trump and Lincoln respectively, to people nan department’s 163rd anniversary.

Trump has compared himself to nan first and 16th presidents connected aggregate occasions, astir precocious successful October erstwhile he delivered a rambling reside successful nan Rose Garden successful which he complained that a tv commentator had rated him only nan “third-best president” down Washington and Lincoln.

“Hey, they didn’t put retired 8 wars, 9 coming,” he said. “We put retired 8 wars, and nan ninth is coming, judge it aliases not.”

He besides told Fox News’ Bret Bair past February that he did not deliberation Washington and Lincoln could conclusion him successful a hypothetical predetermination if they ran connected a hypothetical summons together.