Twitter users took issue with a statement made by President Joe Biden about late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
On Sunday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre posted a statement made by Biden on Twitter, saying, “When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, eighty-one years ago today, it ushered in one of the most shameful periods in American history.”
.@POTUS: “When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, eighty-one years ago today, it ushered in one of the most shameful periods in American history.”
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) February 19, 2023
Read the full statement: https://t.co/g48DKAfIz9
Podcast host Stephen Miller replied, “Hey who is that in the center stage portrait above the Oval Office fire place?”
The photo shows a portrait of FDR hanging above Biden’s head.
Hey who is that in the center stage portrait above the Oval Office fire place? https://t.co/zkWLN0uIai pic.twitter.com/JqRAMqRFGh
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 19, 2023
One user asked, “How long till FDR gets rewritten as a Republican?”
How long till FDR gets rewritten as a Republican? https://t.co/WumNS4IiyW
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) February 19, 2023
Writer Kimberly Morin argued, “Biden behaved exactly like FDR when he pushed his covid vax mandate. That’s actually probably even worse because the vaccines kill some people.”
Biden behaved exactly like FDR when he pushed his covid vax mandate. That's actually probably even worse because the vaccines kill some people.
— Kimberly Morin (@Conservativeind) February 19, 2023
Another user replied, “History will view your vaccine mandates the same way.”
History will view your vaccine mandates the same way. pic.twitter.com/sWL7Sxio16
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) February 19, 2023
Read more reactions below:
Umm who is this- front and center? pic.twitter.com/gYqB0NfCim
— Nick Britton (@njbritton) February 19, 2023
And yet… Biden has FDR’s portrait hanging in the Oval Office. https://t.co/aW8uj8oeqP
— Brittany (@bccover) February 19, 2023
Democrats are horrible people, always have been. https://t.co/Dk7zPMi3v5
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) February 19, 2023
Great. Now do the January 6 people you're holding without allowing for them to see their lawyers or get basic due process. NOTE THIS IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF THE ACTIONS OF THAT DAY BUT ALL AMERICANS ARE ENTITLED TO DUE PROCESS, PAL. https://t.co/YSZx0uiiuY
— Brandon Weichert (@WeTheBrandon) February 19, 2023
In Biden’s full statement, he remembered the “wrongful incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent.”
The statement continues, “And in a tragic miscarriage of justice, the Supreme Court upheld these immoral and unconstitutional policies.”
He explained, “The incarceration of Japanese Americans reminds us what happens when racism, fear, and xenophobia go unchecked. As we battle for the soul of our nation, we continue to combat the corrosive effects of hate on our democracy and the intergenerational trauma resulting from it.”
Biden concluded the statement, saying his administration reaffirms the “Federal Government’s formal apology to Japanese Americans for the suffering inflicted by these policies. And we commit to Nidoto Nai Yoni – to ‘Let It Not Happen Again.'”
In 2021, The Washington Post’s Annie Linskey published a profile on Biden’s Oval Office.
“President Biden has filled the Oval Office with images of American leaders and icons, focusing the room around a massive portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt that hangs across from the Resolute Desk. It is a clear nod to a president who helped the country through significant crises, a challenge Biden now also faces,” she wrote at the time.
