Trump White House Mocks Biden, Reveals Official Presidential Portrait of Autopen

Some new artwork is now on display at the White House: a picture of President Joe Biden’s autopen.

President Donald Trump has teased that he was going to hang an official picture of the autopen to mock his Democratic successor and predecessor, and that joke came to reality on Wednesday, with White House Communications Advisor Margo Martin posting a video on X of several presidential portraits lining the West Wing Colonnade.

The video pans across pictures of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, before zooming in on the autopen, which is wedged between two framed images of Trump. The autopen is midway through signing Biden’s signature in its official portrait.

Trump, earlier this month, told The Daily Caller’s Reagan Reese the autopen picture would be going up at the White House. “This is going to be very controversial,” the president told Reese.

It seemed like there was some debate over which autopen image would be used, but it looks like Trump’s favorite, a black and white photograph, was the one that was ultimately selected.

Biden’s autopen has been a running joke — and a source of irritation — for Trump since returning to office. The mechanical device, which replicates a person’s signature, was reportedly used to sign numerous official documents during Biden’s presidency — a common practice in the executive office. Trump has since claimed it raises concerns over whether the former president personally oversaw the use of his signature.

In March, Fox News reported its digital team “examined more than 20 Biden-era executive orders documented on the Federal Register’s office between 2021 and 2024 and found each had the same signature.”

The president, in a Truth Social post in June, made it clear he was not a fan of Biden’s autopen.

“With the exception of the RIGGED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020, THE AUTOPEN IS THE BIGGEST POLITICAL SCANDAL IN AMERICAN HISTORY!!!” the president said.

And it is also now memorialized at the White House. You can watch Martin’s clip above.