White House plaques attack ex-presidents in typical Trump style

Donald Trump's administration has installed new plaques beneath portraits of former presidents attacking his predecessors in the US president's typical fashion.

Among the plaques, apparently written by Mr Trump himself, is one for Joe Biden reading: "Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst president in American history." The "Presidential Walk of Fame" at the White House features a picture or painting of every former US president - except Mr Biden, who has been replaced by a photo of an autopen. Mr Trump has repeatedly claimed Mr Biden was not mentally capable by the end of his term as president and his staff made decisions on his behalf, using an autopen to sign them off without his knowledge.

The device reproduces a person's signature, allowing them to repeatedly sign documents without having to do so by hand each time. The damning decoration goes on to falsely accuse Mr Biden of winning the "most corrupt election ever" and claims he made "unprecedented use of the autopen." Another plaque refers to "Barack Hussein Obama" as "one of the most divisive political figures in American history." The plaque underneath Bill Clinton's photo reads: "In 2016, president Clinton's wife, Hillary Clinton, lost the presidency to President Donald J Trump!" Even George W Bush, a fellow Republican - though not a Trump supporter - is given a badge of rebuke, with his plaque saying the former president "started wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which should not have happened." The "Presidential Walk of Fame" is a recent addition to Mr Trump's White House and displays the portraits along corridors between the Oval Office and the South Lawn.

The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said the plaques were an "eloquent" description of each president's legacy. "As a student of history, many were written directly by the president himself," she said.

It is the latest change to Mr Trump's White House, which has seen the increased use of gold-coloured accents and gilded fixtures that mimic the decorations in Trump Tower in New York and his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida..