The Democrat Party celebrated Presidents' Day by posting a tribute image featuring the party's most prominent commanders-in-chief. There was just one problem: Bill Clinton was nowhere to be found.
The @TheDemocrats account shared a "Happy President's Day" graphic that included Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. The 42nd president — a two-term Democrat once considered one of the most popular presidents in recent history — was simply erased from the lineup.
The Republican National Committee caught it instantly, retweeting the post with an image of Clinton and a two-word caption that did all the work:
"Forget someone again??"
The omission raises an obvious question: was this an accident or a deliberate choice? Fox News Digital reached out to both the DNC and the Clinton Foundation for comment. Neither responded.
That silence tells you more than any statement would.
Clinton's disappearance from his own party's honor roll didn't happen in a vacuum. The House recently took a step closer to referring the Clintons for criminal charges — with Democratic support. Both Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed to testify after the House threatened contempt in the Jeffrey Epstein probe. The party that once rallied around Clinton through impeachment, through scandal, through every allegation that surfaced across three decades, now can't even fit him into a graphic.
Harry Truman was also missing from the image, for whatever that's worth. But Truman doesn't carry the same political baggage in 2026. Clinton does, and everyone knows it.
Clinton's troubles with his own side didn't start yesterday. The late Kenneth Starr's investigation into a 1978 land deal in the Ozarks — the "Whitewater" affair, dating back to Clinton's time as Arkansas attorney general — eventually uncovered the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Clinton's Arkansas business partners Jim and Susan McDougal were convicted. His successor as governor, Jim Guy Tucker, was convicted. Clinton himself was never charged with wrongdoing in Whitewater, but the investigation spiraled into impeachment.
On January 26, 1998, at what was supposed to be a childcare policy press conference, Clinton delivered one of the most infamous denials in American political history:
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
He followed it with a declaration that has aged about as well as his party's loyalty to him:
"I never told anybody to lie, not a single time. Never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people."
The party stood by him then. They defended him through impeachment, called it a partisan witch hunt, and insisted that character didn't matter as long as the economy hummed. Now they can't even put his face on a holiday post.
This is the pattern with Democrats. Loyalty is transactional. Heroes become liabilities the moment they threaten the current narrative. Clinton was useful when he was winning elections and raising money. Now, with the Epstein probe casting a fresh shadow and the #MeToo framework his own party built, making his record indefensible, he's been quietly shelved.
No announcement. No reckoning. Just a Presidents Day graphic with a conspicuous gap where a two-term president used to be.
The party that lectures the country about honoring institutions and norms decided that one of its own two-term presidents doesn't merit inclusion alongside Jimmy Carter's single term. They didn't explain why. They didn't address it. They just hoped nobody would notice.
The RNC noticed.
Republicans, for their part, posted a Presidents Day image of Mount Rushmore with a color image of Donald Trump featured alongside Abraham Lincoln. The Department of Health and Human Services offered its own tribute with a composite featuring Trump, Lincoln, and George Washington, along with a statement:
"This Presidents Day, we honor the leaders who shaped our nation and reaffirm our commitment to serving the health and well-being of every American."
No memory-holing. No quiet omissions. No pretending inconvenient figures never existed.
Democrats have spent years building a political culture where yesterday's allies become today's unpersons the moment they become inconvenient. It happened to Al Franken. It happened to Andrew Cuomo. And now, in the most passive-aggressive way possible, it's happening to the man who reshaped their party for a generation.
Bill Clinton won two presidential elections. He remains the only Democrat between LBJ and Obama to serve two full terms. And his own party just pretended he doesn't exist on the one holiday dedicated to acknowledging the men who held the office.
They didn't denounce him. They didn't explain his absence. They just deleted him — which, in today's Democratic Party, is how you handle problems you helped create but no longer want to own.
