Obamas Beautiful Essay About The White House Puts Trumps Dump Comment To Shame

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Obama’s Beautiful Essay About The White House Puts Trump’s Dump Comment To Shame

By Jason Easley on Tue, Aug 1st, 2017 at 10:36 pm


In 2013, then President Obama wrote a beautiful essay about Lincoln, the White House, and the Gettysburg Address. Reading Obama’s words today reminds everyone that the same piece of living history that previous presidents were in awe of is the same place that classless Trump called a dump.

When talking to members at his Bedminster golf club, Trump explained that he golfs every weekend because the White House is a dump.

As an example of how a president should treat the White House, here is Barack Obama’s handwritten essay on the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address:

In the evening, when Michelle and the girls have gone to bed, I sometimes walk down the hall to a room Abraham Lincoln used as his office. It contains an original copy of the Gettysburg address, written in Lincoln’s own hand.

I linger on these few words that have helped define our American experiment: “A new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Through the lines of weariness etched in his face, we know Lincoln grasped, perhaps more than anyone, the burdens required to give these words meaning. He knew that even a self-evident truth was not self-executing; that blood drawn by the lash was an affront to our ideals; that blood drawn by the sword was in painful service to those same ideals.

He understood as well that our humble efforts, our individual ambitions, are ultimately not what matter; rather, it is through the accumulated toil and sacrifice of ordinary men and women – those like the soldiers who consecrated that battlefield – that this country is built, and freedom preserved. This quintessentially self-made man, fierce in his belief in honest work and the striving spirit at the heart of America, believed that it falls to each generation, collectively, to share in that toil and sacrifice.

Through cold war and world war, through industrial revolutions and technological transformations, through movements for civil rights and women’s rights and workers’ rights and gay rights, we have. At times, social and economic change have strained our union. But Lincoln’s words give us confidence that whatever trials await us, this nation and the freedom we cherish can, and shall, prevail.

Living in the White House is an honor and a responsibility. Trump has already neglected the responsibilities of his office, but he is a man who is so shallow and entitled that he can’t see and appreciate the history of the place that he is occupying.

Donald Trump wants so badly to be Barack Obama, but he will never measure up to his predecessor. Obama and others before him conducted themselves as a president should, and Trump will always be the reality television star who was sent into the West Wing from Russia with love.

[Warren DeMontague]

1. The guy with the ferret for a hair implant, who likes his steaks cooked to shoe leather

isn't in any position to make sweeping judgments of taste.

[thesquanderer]

24. Well in all fairness, the place was a lot nicer...

...before Trump came in and hired hookers to pee on all the beds.

[alfredo]

49. I heard he "marks his territory." He's killing the lawn.

[Hieronymus]

43. And ketchup.

[wasupaloopa]

2. It really pisses me off to think of Trump and his family walking around in the

White House.

It's going to take a lot of disinfectants to get the stench out

[Neema]

14. Oh god, they'll have to call in shamans to smudge the place.

That's AFTER they disinfect it from top to bottom.

The only thing that makes the WH "a dump" is the current occupants.

[Doreen]

36. Every religion in existence will need to go in and do their fashion of cleansing.

To bad we couldn't drop the whole white house into a pot of boiling water before disinfecting it further. The grounds to.

[a kennedy]

20. I know, we're still living a horrible, horrible nightmare.

[lostnfound]

44. It scares me to think he has access to any of it.

I hope there's a thorough inventory and security on the way OUT.

[smirkymonkey]

3. What a contrast. Obama was so dignified, intelligent and humble.

Trump is not fit to kiss the ground that he walks on. The man is Obama's polar opposite. He is vulgar, loud, ignorant and filled with ego. The only reason the White House is a dump now is because he and his trashy family occupy it.

[Volaris]

21. That difference is why he's there..

Obama was the best of what today's America had to offer up to We The People. And the deplorables couldnt fucking stand it that they ARE the political minority. Donald Trump is their very temporary, and very impotent, political and social vengeance. That they know their time is almost up, should help all of us sleep better at night.

[underpants]

4. You can't buy class

Obama was born with it. Others weren't.

[WePurrsevere]

7. So very true...

Class isn't outward stuff like money, gold, etc.

True class comes from within (whether born or raised to have it). I've known dirt poor people with more class in their little finger's tip than Trump has in his whole body... heck his whole family.

[Dustlawyer]

5. He has always been a self-entitled asshole born with a silver spoon in his spoiled, jaded mouth!

[Hortensis]

6. Rump's mentally disordered. He simply cannot be an Obama.

[Ilsa]

8. Trump's comments show what a shallow, two-dimensional man he is, that

He lacks moral fiber, depth of moral conviction. He lacks understanding the fourth dimension of Time and history, what it means to us now, how it forms us as a nation. Donald believes the United States of America is only about individual ownership and individual gain. Our moral standing in living and promoting democracy and rights means nothing to him. He is a self-centered ignorant bully.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Trump doesn't do the reading thing

Nor writing either (unless tweets count).
But he certainly enjoys the sound of his own voice.
What a disgrace.

[Pachamama]

10. I agree with everything except the idea that Trump wants to be like Obama - I believe Trump wants to

....destroy anything good about Obama and all he achieved. Trump clearly is trying to destroy not just Obamacare, but any civil rights, environmental and diplomatic policy that Obama did. He hopes to leave anything associated with Obama in chaos and shattered. But the reality is that he is not going to be able to do that to the memory of who Obama is. And Trump will never achieve the popularity amongst the US, nations and in intellect and achievements that will be remembered positively.

The only reason the White House could be called a dump right now is because of the garbage that is in it right now. I just look forward to the day it's clean again.

[Neema]

16. But I think the reason he wants to destroy Obama is because he'll never be as great or as loved.

He's an entitled, sick little man-child who wants to be loved the way Obama was (is) loved but doesn't want to have to work at it, behave appropriately, actually learn what it takes to do the job, care about anyone but himself, have some impulse control or do a single thing that would earn the love and respect of the American people. He just thinks adoration and adulation is his birthright, and it incenses him to learn that it's not. So rather than change his ways, he wants to destroy the legacy of the man who is so loved and respected around the world, like a petulant child knocking down a tower of blocks made by a playmate rather than building one himself.

[Pachamama]

18. I completely agree...

[Achilleaze]

11. Why does the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief hate America's great history

and architecture?

Why are he and the republican party so vile, vituperative, and small-minded in general?

And what part do russian mob money, hookers, and wholesale electoral hackery play in the Sickly Sour Soul State (SSSS) of the TreasonWeasel KGOP?

Ya gotta wonder.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Lincoln had a way with words

that survived the Civil War, even as his racist beliefs and political ties to cutthroat capitalism,
railroads, and northern businessmen, as well as mismanagement of the war went unnoticed or
were erased in the nation's admiration for him in the decades following his assassination.

Historians continue to examine the long record of his political life, in papers, speeches, policies,
and the records of his life kept by political contemporaries who interacted with him. Like any
man, it's a mixed bag for sure, but 150 years of eulogizing his achievements has been quite a
distortion. Does Obama cling to Lincoln as a fellow Illinoisan?

[Hekate]

40. Speaking of dumping on a beautiful moment -- was that necessary?

[bucolic_frolic]

41. Truth is important to me

I might ask the same of your post?

[Butterflylady]

13. Beautiful essay

Orange face couldn't put together an essay as eloquent as Obama's because he doesn't know that many words, let alone spell them.

[3catwoman3]

15. The only thing, and I mean...

...the ONLY thing President Obama and the Pretender to the Oval Office have in common is a 46XY karyotype.

[tanyev]

17. Donald walks down the hall and thinks, "This dump needs more gold."

[catbyte]

19. When I read such thoughtful & profoundly patriotic words from President Obama,

it feels like a slap in the face to read Twitler's lame ass tweets and his "BEEYOOTIFUL" this and "INCREDIBLE" that. He's like a lazy child who didn't study for the big test so now he's got to bullshit his way through the answers. It's beyond pathetic. To see how far down into the gutter that orange shithead has dragged our country right alongside him alternately breaks my heart and infuriates me.

Everything he touches turns to shit. I shudder to think what the East Wing looks like now. I wonder if he's installed gold plated crappers so he can pretend he's on a Golden Throne when he tweets his early morning bullshit, delusions, and lies.

[HAB911]

22. White trash in the White House

[Major Nikon]

23. Nothing says inflated sense of worth like gold plated toilets

Trump's apartment is a dump, it just cost a lot to get it that way.

[Hekate]

39. Hey, it costs a lotta money to look that cheap

The Trump apartment is a whorehouse version of Versailles, so he should know

[DFW]

25. Two things one should not confuse with each other

It is one thing for a building to be a "dump."

It is quite another to dump trash in a building that is otherwise stately and elegant.

[syringis]

26. WH is a dump?

Well M TrumpTheRealDumb, feel free to move at any pigsty where you will live perfectly happy, surrounded by your pairs.

[Marcuse]

33. He'd rather transfer White House staff and infrastructure to his post office hotel.

At above market rent.

[cilla4progress]

27. TRump motivated by his urge to take a dump

Not only on Obama's presidency, but on everything hallowed about this country...as well as all of us.

[Louis1895]

28. I love the last line of this article!

Trump will always be the reality television star who was sent into the West Wing from Russia with love.

[treestar]

29. Don the Con has no concept

Of those values. Nothing. No sense of our history. Screw him and anyone who voted for him

[iluvtennis]

31. Well said, I agree

[maddiemom]

30. Trump knows LESS about history than the average eight-year-old.

I'm more freaked out that he has proven to understand even less about how our government works.

[furtheradu]

32. My Dear God! I MISS MY PRESIDENT

Every day, I miss the Obamas more than the day before.
Thank You for this post.
& "thanks, Obama!"

[Moral Compass]

34. Privilege deforms the spirit

Trump has no self awareness and can't possibly understand how revealing his constant blurtings are...

Now that he is old and his face is fleshy it is easy to see the spoiled toddler he was--understanding very early that he could get away with everything and that the people who worked for his parents were frightened of him because he held their livelihood in his fat little hands.

What a grotesque occupies the White House.

[BigMin28]

35. dumpy

will go down in history as the illegitimate President. He knows this and it is killing him. Nothing he can do to change it now.

[Doreen]

37. I read what could be read without going to his essay.

I know if I read the essay ( at least right now ) that I will cry. I am tearing up right now from what I read and the comments everyone has made. I miss our president.....great, now I am tearing up more.

[Hekate]

38. Well, damn

We went from Barack and Michelle Obama -- hell, even George and Laura Bush -- to this horror show who think The People's House should replicate a whorehouse version of the Palace at Versailles with a Glam Room for the Queen.

There's something about this episode and this essay that has me, for the first time, actually in tears over Trump.

And he's fckng going to take us to war in N.Korea.

[pansypoo53219]

42. again. a black president must be exceptional. the WHITE MAN who wants to ERASE him

is UN-exceptional AND CAN'T HANDLE IT!

[lordsummerisle]

45. So if he's planning on razing the White House and erecting The Trump House

in its place who would stop him (he asked rhetorically)...?

[liberaldemocrat2024]

46. Trump Has No Class At all and just says whatever pops in his head

Trump has no integrity or morals at all. His vulgar language is as bad as Scaramucci's and well birds of a feather! As President it was expected that Trump would change but it's now obvious that he will never change. He will keep on with his hate filled speeches, dirty foul language and insults

[NRaleighLiberal]

47. who expected he would change? None of us here, I suspect. Welcome to DU!

[trueblue2007]

48. i LOVE PRESIDENT OBAMA. GOD BLESS HIM.

[iluvtennis]

50. What a contrast! A Phony & the real thing!

Link to tweet

[burrowowl]

51. K&R!!!!!!

Beautiful essay!

[BeyondGeography]

52. He was over the head of so many Americans

which is a sad comment on them, not him.

[calimary]

53. I started reading this and soon enough, I was in tears.

The magnificence of President Obama. The eloquence of President Obama. The heart, compassion, and conscience of President Obama. HIS White House was no dump. Maybe it is now, considering the occupant.

But take the trump out of the White House and it becomes once again, the place of historical wonder and power and reverence that it's always been (even if he was too stupid and pig-headed to realize it).

Let's take the trump OUT of the White House. The sooner the better (even if it means Mike Pence. He'll just be a temporary zit to be popped at the next opportunity. We can dispense with him in 2020).