UPDATED: August 4, 2021 09:01 IST
The venue for the Barack Obama s birthday party is reported to be the $15 million Sea fronted property at Martha s Vineyard that Barack and Michele Obama bought in 2019. (File Photo: Reuters)
4th August 2021 is the day former US President Barack Obama turns 60 and he is reportedly planning to celebrate it in style. The US media is reporting that the former President is throwing a massive party over the weekend and the guest list is supposedly about 500 long, give or take a few.
Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney have their invitations, and friends and family apart from the Obamas are said to have invited their former staff as well. According to the news website Axios, which reported details of the party, guests are being asked to donate to a list of chosen charities in lieu of gifts for the birthday boy.
We should be more generous to our former prime ministers – and, yes, that includes David Cameron The US reveres its past presidents, while we banish our leaders into a purgatory of forced retirement.
Former prime ministers Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, David Cameron and John Major at Westminster Abbey in 2019 When British prime ministers visit Washington, DC they can stay in a government-owned townhouse called Blair House. The property is part of the bequest to the nation that includes the Pennsylvania Avenue Presidential Townhouse, the grand home once owned by the great Supreme Court judge Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr and which every former US president can use when he is in town. It is a stark illustration of the varying degrees of respect the two nations hold for the former occupants of their top post.
January 27, 2021 Press Release Introduces HR 484: The No Glory for Hate Act
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez (CA-38) introduced legislation to prevent federal projects, buildings, statues, or lands from being named after Donald J. Trump. HR 484,
The No Glory for Hate Act, would prohibit the use of federal funds for any project commemorating a president twice impeached by the House of Representatives and would further restrict the benefits afforded them after leaving office. “For years, Donald Trump poured gasoline on lies, encouraging racism and hatred, then lit the match on January 6th. A president who has been impeached twice does not deserve the honors bestowed on a former president,”
Notwithstanding section 3102 of title 40, United States Code, no Federal funds may be used to
(1) create or display any symbol, monument, or statue commemorating any former President that has been twice impeached by the House of Representatives on or before the date of enactment of this Act or has been convicted of a State or Federal crime relating to actions taken in an official capacity as President of the United States on Federal public land, including any highway, park, subway, Federal building, military installation, street, or other Federal property; or
(2) name, designate, or redesignate a Federal building or Federal land after, or in commemoration of, any former President that has been twice impeached by the House of Representatives on or before the date of enactment of this Act or has been convicted of a State or Federal crime relating to actions taken in an official capacity as President of the United States.
Democrats are most definitely losing their minds over President Donald Trump.
They still can’t get him out of their heads. They completely failed at going after him on impeachment, twice. But they just can’t stop trying to throw things at him.
Even if those things are just ridiculous and probably unconstitutional.
Several lunatic Democrats led by Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) have introduced a bill called the “No Glory for Hate” Act. Literally proposed by people so consumed with hate for Trump that they still are going after him.
The purpose of the bill? To prohibit the use of federal funds for any commemoration of President Donald Trump and to snatch any benefits he’s entitled to as an ex-President.