Fox News Host Rejects Trump’s Presidential Walk of Fame as Trolling

The White House’s Presidential Walk of Fame, installed along the West Wing colonnade outside the Oval Office earlier this year, has provoked mixed reactions from media and observers. On Thursday, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade said he is not a fan of the display, calling it trolling and predicting it would be undone by a future president. “I’m not for this at all,” he said during a segment of The Five, adding that the project could end up being just a temporary flourish that future administrations roll back.

Among the newly installed plaques are portraits of former presidents whose legacies are framed through the Trump administration’s perspective. Obama is described as “one of the most divisive political figures in American history,” while Clinton’s plaque notes that Hillary Clinton “lost the presidency to President Donald J. Trump!” The display also depicts Joe Biden with an autopen device in place of a portrait and labels him “the worst President in American history.” By contrast, some Republican presidents receive more favorable summaries; Ronald Reagan’s plaque states that “he was a fan of President Donald J. Trump before President Trump’s historic run for the White House. Likewise, President Trump was a fan of his.”

Kilmeade’s colleagues on The Five did not all share his reaction. Co-host Jesse Watters pressed a counterpoint, alluding to former President Bill Clinton’s intra-office actions as a reminder that presidents decorate the White House in various ways. “If you think this is repulsive, what would you call what Bill Clinton did in there?” Watters asked. “It’s his house for now. For the next three years — maybe more. And so he can decorate it any way he wants.” The roundtable format highlighted the broader tension over how the presidency is publicly commemorated and who gets to shape that memory.

A HuffPost report described the exchange as part of a broader conversation about whether the display is a tasteful tribute or a provocative political statement. The White House has presented the project as a way to present presidential legacies, but the choice of language and imagery clearly aligned with the current administration’s perspective. The juxtaposition of positive notes for some Republican predecessors with sharp, often critical lines about Democratic presidents has fueled immediate online and on-air debate about history, memory, and power.

The walk itself runs along the West Wing colonnade, and the newly installed plaques summarize each president’s legacy as the Trump administration sees it. Republican voices on the roundtable partially embraced the idea of a decorative, self-assured retrospective; Kilmeade remained skeptical. The debate, captured in live television and subsequent coverage, underscores how a ceremonial display at the seat of executive power can become a fresh flashpoint in an era of polarized political media coverage.

As discussions about the display continue, observers note that such public commemorations sit at the intersection of culture, history, and politics. The Walk of Fame serves as a reminder that how presidents are remembered—especially by their successors—can be as consequential as the legacies themselves, and it can provoke strong reactions across ideological lines.