![]() ![]() Obama, too, projects absolute ease in the presidency. ![]() Jan 2009 – Humour, love and friendship – the Obamas share a joke in a lift on inauguration night The room they are in – the Blue Room – is opulently decorated with gold stars, Empire-style furniture, and a portrait of some grand national father who holds a white handkerchief in his white hand. Here are three African Americans in the White House. The meeting was also a celebration of Black History Month – and Souza’s picture manages to be both intimate and historic. In Pete Souza’s official White House photograph of their get-together, President Barack Obama cracks a delicious smile as the first lady dances with McLaurin, who was invited to visit the White House in recognition of community work she has done for decades in the US capital. In the week Trump’s xenophobic bid to be the Republican presidential candidate began to look unstoppable, the man whose Americanness he has questioned was meeting 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin. ![]() In Washington DC, civilisation still existed. In Las Vegas the casinos were humming with a hell-yes tide that was about to sweep the manic Donald Trump to his most pumped-up victory yet. ![]()
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