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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mike Bedigan

‘Petty or racist’: Ex White House photographer rips Trump for ‘hiding’ Obama portrait and bucking tradition

Barack Obama’s official White House photographer has hit out at Donald Trump’s decision to “hide” the portrait of the former president, questioning whether the motives for the shake-up were “petty or racist.”

Pete Souza, who served under Obama and former president Ronald Reagan, said that breaking a longstanding tradition of where presidential portraits are hung was “pretty petty,” and suggested that Obama lived in the president’s head “rent free.”

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