The Mama Ayesha's Restaurant Presidential Mural is a large, 2009 mural in Washington, D.C., featuring 11 American Presidents, starting with Dwight D. Eisenhower and ending with Barack Obama. Created by El Salvador-born artist Karla Rodas (aka Karlisima), the mural was funded by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. It has been described by locals as being DC's "largest postcard."

The mural, painted on the exterior wall of a Middle Eastern restaurant in the Adams Morgan neighborhood, depicts selected United States presidents standing in front of the White House. The owner of the restaurant, Mama Ayesha, stands in the middle between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, with their arms interlocked. A bald eagle is shown flying in the upper left corner near trees losing their leaves in the fall season, in the background is the Lincoln Memorial. Cherry blossom trees are shown in bloom by the White House. On the right side of the mural is the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the Jefferson Memorial, the Washington Monument and the United States Capitol. In front of the reflecting pool is a section painted blue for the next president. A mosaic of the United States Flag appears on either side of the painting.

The mural was created in 2009, the year Obama was sworn into office. As noted above, there’s a space left for the next president, but interestingly, Trump hasn’t been added.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly
unsharp.

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