Trump refused to unveil Obama's White House portrait after the former president criticized his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak. Here are 8 other famous presidential feuds in history.

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• Earlier this week, President Donald Trump reportedly refused to host a White House ceremony to unveil former President Barack Obama's official portrait. 
• Trump and Obama have traded barbs in recent weeks, particularly over Trump's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
• But they are far from the first American presidents not to see eye to eye.
• Here are eight other presidential feuds, dating as far back as Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. 
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The bad blood between President Donald Trump and his predecessor Barack Obama boiled over this week when NBC News reported that Trump was refusing to hold a White House ceremony to unveil Obama's official portrait. 

The ceremony is a long-held White House tradition, whereby the current president, usually in their first term, invites their predecessor back to the White House to see the painting unveiled. 

But according to sources who spoke to NBC News, there is so much animosity between Trump and Obama that the ceremony is not likely to happen. Trump in recent weeks also been accusing Obama of committing a political crime, which he has called "Obamagate" without explaining what it is.

With presidential power swinging back and forth between parties for decades, Trump and Obama certainly are not the first presidents not to see eye to eye. 

Here are eight other major presidential feuds in American history, from Thomas Jefferson and John Adams to Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. 

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson's relationship soured as they fought for power in the wake of George Washington's presidency.

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Founding Fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had a tumultuous off-and-on friendship before both died within hours of each other on July 4, 1826, according to CNN.

Their friendship was first tested when the nation's first president, George Washington, decided not to seek a third term, and the two ran against each other. 

Adams won that election, but things turned sour when Jefferson challenged him again four years later. 

Supporters for Jefferson called Adams a "hideous hermaphroditical character," while Adam's supporters called Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow."

Adams was so angered at losing to Jefferson in this race that he left town early and skipped Jefferson's inauguration.

However, the two did reconcile somewhat about a decade later, when they started exchanging letters again. 

John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson fought each other in one of the most heated presidential elections in 1828.

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Historians consider the 1828 presidential election to be one of the nastiest in US history, according to CNN. 

The reasons for this date back to the previous election, in 1824, which was also between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.

Adams won, and many felt that Jackson had been robbed of victory because of a deal that Adams cut with another contender, Henry Clay, whom he later made his secretary of state.

Adams and Jackson were also extremely different men.

Adams was the son of the nation's second president, came from a prominent New England family, was Harvard educated, and had spent a good portion of his life abroad. 

Jackson, meanwhile, had a tough upbringing, during which he was kidnapped and beaten by British soldiers, orphaned, and largely had to fend for himself in South Carolina. 

During the 1828 election, Adams was called a pimp, while Jackson's wife was labeled a slut.

According to The Atlantic, when Jackson eventually won, his supporters stormed the White House and Adams had to secretively escape.

Andrew Johnson refused to attend the inauguration of his successor Ulysses S. Grant.

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While Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant was a member of Andrew Johnson's Democrat party earlier in his life, he switched sides after Johnson became president following Abraham Lincoln's assassination. 

Grant and Johnson disliked each other so much that Grant refused to ride to his inauguration with Johnson in his carriage, as was the custom at the time, according to The Atlantic.

As a result, Johnson refused to go to the ceremony and stayed at the White House. 

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