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President Donald J. Trump has restored the bust of Sir Winston Churchill to its place of display in the Oval Office. The bronze likeness of the late Prime Minister was originally a gift from the United Kingdom in 2001. However, both Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden removed the bust during their tenures in office.
After the 2016 presidential election, The National Pulse’s Editor-and-Chief, Raheem Kassam, and Nigel Farage, Brexit crusader and now leader of Britain’s Reform Party, urged then President-elect Trump to restore the Churchill bust after it had been removed by Obama.
‘A CHEEKY FAVOR’
“I’m reminded of November 12th, 2016, when [Nigel Farage] and I went to visit President Trump in his penthouse apartment in New York. After our meeting, Nigel and I realized we had forgotten to mention something we had discussed ahead of time: the Churchill bust that Obama had removed from the Oval Office,” Kassam recalled in a post on X (formerly Twitter) last year. He continued: “So as we were approaching the door to leave, I said to then President-Elect Donald Trump, something along the lines of, ‘Er, excuse me Mr. President-Elect, but I couldn’t ask a cheeky favor could I?’”
“He said: ‘What’s a cheeky favor?’ I explained that his predecessor had removed the Churchill bust. He was aware, and I asked if he planned to put it back. He thought about it for a second, and asked us, ‘Would that mean a lot to you?’ We all said it would. He then asked, ‘Would that mean a lot to your country?’ Again, we all said yes, it would,” Kassam wrote. He concluded: “And I remember finding out, that on his first day in office, he had the Churchill bust put back in its rightful place. ”
REMOVED BY BIDEN & OBAMA.
After its initial placement, the Churchill bust was moved by President Barack Obama in 2009. This action ignited controversy, with allegations suggesting an underlying anti-British sentiment. In its place, a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. was installed.
President Trump reinstated the Churchill bust in 2017. The bust’s return was highlighted during Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to the White House in 2017. In 2021, President Joe Biden once again removed the Churchill bust, replacing it with the busts of Robert F. Kennedy Sr., Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Today is #WinstonChurchillDay, the same day on which the former British Prime Minister was awarded honorary U.S. citizenship in 1963.
I’m reminded of November 12th, 2016, when @Nigel_Farage and I went to visit President Trump in his penthouse apartment in New York.
After our… pic.twitter.com/dSsKsBA3pc
— Raheem. (@RaheemKassam) April 9, 2024
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President Donald J. Trump has restored the bust of Sir Winston Churchill to its place of display in the Oval Office. The bronze likeness of the late Prime Minister was originally a gift from the United Kingdom in 2001. However, both Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden removed the bust during their tenures in office.
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