As if Obama bore, Trump’s Churchill statue, Biden, was immediately removed.

President Joe Biden, who commenced business on the 20th (local time), is rapidly leading the state administration by pouring out various policies for the three days of his inauguration. ‘Erase Trump’, such as an executive order to reverse the anti-immigration policy, was the main focus, but it wasn’t just policy that changed. The composition of the White House office as well as the working style is clearly different from the Trump era. The representative changes in the’biden era’ analyzed by foreign media were selected.

The composition of the oval office in the White House, the president’s office space, has changed. On the 21st (local time), the White House unveiled its new Oval Office on the Washington Post (WP). From the start, it is quite different from former President Donald Trump, who rejected the WP and other mainstream media.

According to the WP, the White House decorated Biden’s office in a way that emphasizes the president’s leadership and reveals his philosophy. Trump’s coke button disappeared from the so-called “decision desk,” where the president handles documents. Former President Trump, who doesn’t drink alcohol, lived with a diet coke, and the appearance of pressing a red coke-only button on the desk appeared frequently in foreign media. On the other hand, President Biden met with reporters on the 20th (local time) with dozens of documents for approval, a fountain pen, and a phone on his desk. It is interpreted to give the impression of focusing on work from the first day.

The statue of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, which was placed on the wall on the right after former President Trump took office, also disappeared. Instead, President Biden brought new statues of human rights activists, including US labor activists Cesar Chavez and pastor Martin Luther King. Photos of family members were placed right behind the’Decision Desk’.

In particular, the Churchill statue has a history of moving inside and outside the oval office through various twists and turns over the past half century. The Churchill statue, made by British sculptor Jacob Epstein, was first donated to the White House in 1965 when President Lyndon Johnson, and was later damaged. Accordingly, the British government gave the statue of the same artist to the White House again in 2001 as a loan. At the time, British Prime Minister Tony Blair was a gift to President George W. Bush as a sign of friendship.

But later, as President Barack Obama, the Churchill statue was removed outside the oval office, which led to an interpretation that he took a critical gesture against British imperialism in the past. At the time, the Mayor of London (now British Prime Minister) Boris Johnson made a racial disrespect for the incumbent US President, saying, “The president, who is half Kenyan, has a deep-rooted resentment against the British Empire,” and it became a major international controversy.

Former President Trump placed a statue of Churchill with this story on one side of the oval office from the first day of his tenure, and maintained a close relationship with Prime Minister Johnson. The British Daily Guardian reported that President Biden was known to have called Prime Minister Johnson “a mental and emotional clone of Trump.”

Then, in the days of President Biden, the Churchill statue was pushed out of the oval office again. CNN reported that the British Prime Minister’s office avoided an immediate response, saying, “The oval office is the president’s office, and how to decorate it depends on his mind.”

The first call between the U.S. and the British leader on the 23rd was held in such a subtle tension. The White House said President Biden spoke with Prime Minister Johnson today to reaffirm the importance of the NATO alliance. After taking office, it was the third normal foreign currency after Canada and Mexico.

Although he is in his early tenure, relations with the media are also cruising. The White House recently started resubscribing to the New York Times (NYT) and WP, ​​according to political media The Hill. Earlier, former President Trump cut off the two newspapers from October 2019, saying it was a hotbed of “fake” and “corruption.”

Former President Trump fought a war by pushing the media critical of the regimes such as NYT, WP, and CNN as “fake news”. In 2018, the White House confiscated the pass of Jim Acosta, CNN’s White House access reporter, who fought with him at a press conference, and then canceled it by court order. The White House spokesman’s office has also been criticized for lack of communication due to lack of briefings.

On the other hand, the new White House spokesman Jen Saki of the Biden government received favorable reviews from the first debut briefing on the 20th. Saki said, promising a daily briefing that day, “the media and (government’s) position may be different, but we have a common goal of delivering accurate information to the public.”

Forbes, spokesman Saki responded seamlessly to issues such as national security and public health, and was unaware of sensitive but important issues such as the FBI Director Christopher Ray’s takeover. “An issue that has not yet been discussed with the President He gave high marks for being honest with him.

Another device that symbolizes the Trump era is Twitter. Former President Trump, who didn’t believe in the media, once poured out dozens of tweets a day. In this regard, poll expert Neil Newhouse, co-founder of Public Opinion Strategy, told the WP that “Trump’s non-political approach had some appeal to the voters.” “For example, many Americans are used to communicating via Twitter, and actually ( Some people miss the Trump method.”

The WP predicted that this would disappear in the Biden government, and a group of experts would appear on the front. This was described as “the return of the technocrats.”

On the 23rd, Anthony Pouch, the head of the National Allergy and Infectious Disease Research Institute, appeared on the official Twitter account of the White House, and a video was uploaded to recommend “Wear a mask.”

The appearance of stubborn administrative bureaucrats and experts in Washington is a point different from the Trump administration. However, the limitation of working as a minority elite group in Washington can be seen as a’league of their own’ to the public again.

Reporter Lee Yoo-jung [email protected]