Jill Biden clutters up the White House lawn with those giant hearts again

AP Photo/Susan Walsh

She did it again. Jill Biden decorated the lawn of the White House with giant cut-outs of hearts and the Biden family pets, Commander, the German Shepherd, and Willow, the cat. The theme this year is “Reach Out with Open Hearts and Helping Hands this Valentine’s Day.”

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Valentine’s Day is one of Jill Biden’s favorite holidays and she likes to celebrate by putting up tacky cut-out hearts on the White House lawn. She positions them so that the White House press corps sees them and can report about them. Last year the message was all about “healing” and “unity”, as they were the words painted on the hearts. She virtue-signaled that the new people in the White House are all about bringing America together. It was her “Valentine to the country,” her office said. The left and their cohorts in the media swooned.

I wrote last year that the gesture was a way for Jill Biden to virtue-signal and she knew the press would eat it up. Joe and Jill are determined to show how compassionate they are and imply that the previous residents in the White House were not. Remember all the criticism when Melania decorated the White House? We were told how classless and tacky her taste in decorations was in the White House. Yet, Jill Biden gets a pass. All that is important is that she is not Melania.

So, another Valentine’s Day, another lawn full of giant cut-out hearts. This year she used child labor and wrote out her theme message in full.

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Three large hearts, one with the message, “Reach Out with Open Hearts and Helping Hands this Valentine’s Day,” and two others featuring handprints are on display on the north lawn in view of television cameras where White House correspondents stand for their live reports.

Cut-outs of the dog Commander and cat Willow are also part of the display.

A corner of the East Wing inside the White House is decorated with the handprints of military children on paper hearts. The handprints are also on the hearts outside. The indoor hearts are decorated with “Love” printed on them. Cut-out replicas of the dog and cat are also displayed indoors for visitors. Hearts bearing the children’s handprints are strung together and hung in a window. Visitors taking public tours can see them.

The first lady and the children worked on the “heart” projects when she visited the U.S. Army Garrison Fort Drum, New York, home of the 10th Mountain Division, on Jan. 30. The 3- to 5-year-old children are enrolled at Fort Drum South Riva Ridge Child Development Center.

The visit was part of her Joining Forces initiative to support military and veteran families and their caregivers.

Her message falls flat for many of us. Given that she and her husband are so divisive and partisan, the attempt at unity doesn’t ring sincere. Joe Biden even used his State of the Union address to launch his re-election bid. He openly criticized Republicans by using a lie that they want to kill Medicare and Medicaid. He will use it throughout his campaign, you can be sure of that. President Unity can’t seem to make a speech without tossing in a reference or three to “Mega MAGA Republicans” these days.

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The little ones are cute. Jill’s beating us over the head with her messaging is not. I said it last year and I’ll say it again this year – the hearts on the lawn of the White House are tacky. The White House isn’t a house on a suburban street. It deserves to be treated as special.

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