{"id":561364,"date":"2021-06-11T18:07:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=561364"},"modified":"2021-06-11T18:07:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:07:07","slug":"biden-gifted-boris-johnson-6000-bike-johnson-gave-biden-framed-photo-reportedly-sourced-from-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-gifted-boris-johnson-6000-bike-johnson-gave-biden-framed-photo-reportedly-sourced-from-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Gifted Boris Johnson $6,000 Bike, Johnson Gave Biden Framed Photo Reportedly Sourced From Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-gifted-boris-johnson-6000-bike-johnson-gave-biden-framed-photo-reportedly-sourced-from-wikipedia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=561364&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233390871.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden gifted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson a $6,000 bike during his trip to the Group of 7 summit on Thursday, while Johnson returned the favor with a slightly less expensive gift, a framed photograph of American abolitionist Frederick Douglass that government officials noticed on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Johnson exchanged their gifts when they met on Thursday in\u00a0Carbis Bay, England, the first time the two have met since Biden took office. Both met with other\u00a0world leaders on Friday for the\u00a0first day of the G7 meeting in Carbis Bay, Biden\u2019s\u00a0first foreign trip as president.<\/p>\n<p>The custom-made \u201cBoris bike,\u201d as Biden\u2019s gift to the prime minister was dubbed, comes with a blue helmet emblazoned with the American and British flags and was handmade by Philadelphia-based Bilenky Cycle Works, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/newsletter\/london-playbook\/politico-g7-playbook-carbis-bay-fitness-regime-hug-and-walk-turbot-charged-dinner\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018Boris Bike\u2019 comes full circle back to its British roots,\u201d as the bike\u2019s maker started his frame building skills with an English builder, Philly Bike Expo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/phillybikeexpo\">said<\/a>, noting that the bike is a\u00a0\u201cremake of the classic English 3 speed in lightweight form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The framed picture Johnson handed the president on Thursday was a photo of a Frederick Douglass\u00a0mural that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/picture-of-edinburgh-anti-slavery-mural-given-to-president-biden-by-pm-n3l953nrn\">painted<\/a> on a wall in Edinburgh\u00a0by the Scottish street artist Ross Blair, otherwise known as Trench-One. After escaping slavery himself, Douglass became one of the most famous\u00a0abolitionists in American history, speaking and writing eloquently against slavery before he died in 1895.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Embassy in London wrote in a tweet that the two had exchanged \u201cthoughtful gifts of welcome,\u201d and noted that Douglass toured the British Isles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.687116564417\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exchanging thoughtful gifts of welcome, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> presented <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BorisJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BorisJohnson<\/a> with a \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 made bicycle &#038; helmet, receiving in return a framed photo of a mural in Edinburgh depicting abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who toured the UK &#038; Ireland in 1845-47. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bXkJ5wIjgH\">pic.twitter.com\/bXkJ5wIjgH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Embassy London (@USAinUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USAinUK\/status\/1403381423680233478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.9252669039146\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pictures of the \u201cBoris Bike\u201d and helmet from Philadelphia-based <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bilenkycycles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bilenkycycles<\/a> that Biden gave UK\u2019s Boris Johnson, who was the 1st foreign leader he met with on his 1st overseas trip as president. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/indVyn6JuS\">pic.twitter.com\/indVyn6JuS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenniferJJacobs\/status\/1403228377318891520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The photo of the mural was\u00a0taken by Melissa Highton, a dual U.K-U.S. national and assistant principal\u00a0at the University of Edinburgh, who wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2021\/06\/10\/joe-biden\/\">post<\/a> drawing attention to the British government\u2019s use of her photo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people on Twitter are being a bit rude about the traffic cone but I would remind you that both Edinburgh and Glasgow have a fine tradition of adding traffic cones to significant public art works and perhaps David Hume wasn\u2019t using his,\u201d Highton wrote, referring to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-statue-of-david-hume-philosopher-and-historian-with-a-traffic-cone-49741237.html\">photo<\/a> of Edinburgh\u2019s\u00a0statue of philosopher David Hume with\u00a0a traffic cone on the statue\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p>U.K. government officials reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/picture-of-edinburgh-anti-slavery-mural-given-to-president-biden-by-pm-n3l953nrn\">contacted<\/a> Highton several weeks ago asking for permission to present the photo to Biden after they noticed it on Douglass\u2019 Wikipedia page.<\/p>\n<p>The mural is part of the part of Curious Edinburgh\u2019s\u00a0Black Lives Matter\u00a0mural tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe artworks \u2013 colourful, challenging, moving, powerful and diverse \u2013 inspired by the themes of I Can\u2019t Breathe and Black Lives Matter, have been created by artists from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, all living in Scotland,\u201d Curious Edinburgh <a href=\"http:\/\/curiousedinburgh.org\/blm-mural-trail-edinburgh\/\">said<\/a>\u00a0on its website.<\/p>\n<p>The G7 summit is a meeting of seven of the world\u2019s most powerful government heads, the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States, which make up about\u00a0half of the global economy.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden gifted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson a $6,000 bike during his trip to the Group of 7 summit on Thursday, while Johnson returned the favor with a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280072,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233390871.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Gifted Boris Johnson $6,000 Bike, Johnson Gave Biden Framed Photo Reportedly Sourced From Wikipedia","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233390871.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Gifted Boris Johnson $6,000 Bike, Johnson Gave Biden Framed Photo Reportedly Sourced From Wikipedia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}