Overview

• The White House’s X account shared a gallery of presidential portraits in which Joe Biden is represented by a photo of a signing machine, captioned “Un embellissement de plus à la Maison Blanche” with laughing emojis.
• The video places the autopen image between two Donald Trump portraits along the West Wing colonnade leading to the Oval Office.
• President Trump used the post to allege Biden’s aides hid his decline and “usurped” authority via an autopen, asserting some actions, including certain pardons, could be invalid.
• Joe Biden rejected the accusations as “ridiculous and false.”
• The episode aligns with Trump’s redecoration drive and a June inquiry into autopen use, and there has been no public move to nullify Biden-era decisions.