<p data-async="">Shortly after his January inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump made the peculiar decision to remove a portrait of the great Thomas Jefferson from the Oval Office and <a data-evt-val="{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;replace&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https://www.wsj.com/politics/the-painting-that-explains-trumps-foreign-policy-c387323a&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/the-painting-that-explains-trumps-foreign-policy-c387323a" target="_blank">replace</a> it with a portrait of James Polk.</p>

The former president wanted to push British Loyalists in B.C. back to 54-40{ai:summary}<p>President Donald Trump replaced Thomas Jefferson's portrait in the Oval Office with that of James Polk shortly after his inauguration in January. This decision marked a notable shift in the symbolic representation of American history within the presidential office. #history</p>

Terry Glavin: Is Trump's lionization of James Polk an ominous sign of things to come?

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