Uncle Joe is not going to introduce us to our new masters, the rabbits. This is a more than fifty-year-old American custom.
Who gets to be the Easter Bunny and what’s the backstory of the mask?
The White House Easter Egg Roll ceremony takes place on Easter Monday every year in Washington, DC. Parents and kids from across the nation are invited to participate in games on the lawn.
The beloved White House custom began when a staff member of Mrs. Nixon’s donned a white jumpsuit and a Peter Rabbit mask in 1969.
“That enjoyable custom endures to this day,” Ms. Pickens says to the News.
During Ronald Reagan’s administration, Ursula Meese, the spouse of US Attorney General Edwin Meese, donned a “Meester Bunny” costume.
President George W. Bush and Sean Spicer, the future press secretary for Donald Trump, dressed up in white and appeared on the Truman Balcony in 2008.
