Barack Obama Has Now Been President Longer than FDR

This week, Barack Obama passed Franklin Roosevelt for the longest presidential tenure in American history.

What’s that, you say? — president for longer than FDR? But FDR was elected president four times; Obama was elected president two times.

Yes, all of that is true. That’s why this record has an asterisk next to it.

For anyone with eyes to see, the current presidency is being run by Barack Obama.

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Blackout: White House curbs press, public access as Biden struggles with public demands of job

Throughout his presidential campaign and continuing since taking the White House, Joe Biden has promised a transparent approach to press and public relations. Yet in recent weeks, his administration has closed off — at least for now — several key avenues via which the press and public have for years gained a modicum of transparency, accessibility and accountability from the White House.

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President Joe Biden’s press team is seeking to charge reporters $170 for mandatory COVID-19 tests every day they enter the White House, The Washington Post reported Friday.

The White House is reportedly seeking to implement the unprecedented measure on Monday, arguing that the cost of testing dozens of journalists each day has “strained its budget.” The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) has already raised objections to the change, and critics argue it could effectively ban smaller outlets from the campus, giving major outlets a monopoly on White House access.

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White House Website Adds LGBT Friendly ‘Pronouns’ to Contact Form

If you want to contact the White House via its official website, there is now a category named Pronouns between Suffix and Email.

President Joe Biden’s administration updated the Contact page of whitehouse.gov to include a Pronouns pulldown with the selections: she/her, he/him, they/them, Other and Prefer not to share.

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