U.S. federal facilities display a portrait of the current president. Obama’s portrait was released Jan 20, 2017, and was expected to be distributed the first week of March '09 according to the Chief Public Relations Officer for the General Printing Office (GPO) Gary Somerset (WP article, Jan '09).
President Trump’s portrait was released Jan 19, 2017 but not distributed to federal facilities to date. Mr. Somerset with GPO blamed the White House for the delay in emailing the file to GPO. The White House hasn't commented on this specific situation, could be from low level stonewalling of the public questions.
Mr Somerset (graduated from a very liberal college) is reported to get a little testy when pressed for details of the delay.
Davita Vance-Cooks, Director of GPO was appointed by Obama in 2013. She graduated from Columbia University (c81-83) with Obama.
The GPO motto is “Keeping America Informed”. It's mission statement:
“The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is the Federal Government’s official, digital, secure resource for producing, procuring, cataloging, indexing, authenticating, disseminating, and preserving the official information products of the U.S. Government. The GPO is responsible for the production and distribution of information products and services for all three branches of the Federal Government, including U.S. passports for the Department of State as well as the official publications of Congress, the White House, and other Federal agencies in digital and print formats. “
GPO Facebook page since Jan 20, 2017 - Feb 20, 2017
4 Posts related to President Trump.
10 Posts related to a GPO woman athlete.
Either Gary (also in charge of social media) has a crush, or a bias against our new President.
-Abnormally delayed portrait, could stem from both WH Staff and GPO
-GPO have the modus operandi of possible leakers.
-GPO have access to all govt. documents form all branches of govt.
-fb bias