Has any official White House press release or archive published the full text of the Presidential Walk of Fame plaques?

1. What the user is really asking and why it matters

The core inquiry is narrow and documentary: did the White House itself, through its official channels (a press release or its archival publications), publish the full verbatim text of the bronze plaques installed on the Presidential Walk of Fame, rather than that text being reproduced by independent news outlets or described by spokespeople — a distinction that matters for establishing whether the administration formally authorized and disseminated the exact wording via official record systems (the question of an official press release or archival posting is implicit in considerations of provenance and permanence) ^{[5] [2]}.

2. What the independent press reporting shows about the plaques’ words

A raft of mainstream outlets printed the plaque language verbatim or summarized it: CNN and The New York Times published direct quotations and several newspapers provided the full lines as they appeared beneath portraits ^{[1] [5] [3]}. Associated Press and other wires ran photo captions and descriptions showing the plaques installed along the Colonnade near the West Wing, and the Houston Chronicle explicitly offered “the text as it appears on the plaques” in its coverage ^{[2] [3]}. These media reproductions created a consistent public record of the plaque wording, but they are reporting artifacts — not necessarily official White House publications ^{[1] [2]}.

3. What the White House has said in public reporting supplied here

Among the supplied sources, the only direct White House-sourced language cited is a statement from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying the plaques “are eloquently written descriptions of each president and the legacy they left behind,” a defense of the plaques’ character rather than a release of their full text in an official press document or archival entry ^[4]. Other coverage references that the plaques were “conceived, built, and dedicated by Trump” and notes the administration’s role in installing them, but those are descriptions from journalistic accounts rather than links to or citations of a White House press release or archival posting that reproduces every plaque verbatim ^{[1] [5]}.

4. Synthesis and the direct answer

Based on the reporting provided, there is no evidence that the White House issued an official press release or added the full text of the Presidential Walk of Fame plaques to an official White House archive; instead, multiple independent news organizations photographed, quoted, and transcribed the plaques for public consumption ^{[3] [1] [2]}. The administration’s public defense — the press secretary’s characterization — is documented in the media but does not substitute for a published White House text or an archival record reproducing the plaques in full ^[4]. If an official White House press release or archival posting exists, it is not cited in the materials provided and therefore cannot be confirmed from this record ^{[6] [7]}.

5. Caveats, alternate views and what remains to be checked

Reports from outlets across the political spectrum reproduced plaque wording and photographed the installation ^{[8] [9] [10]}, and some coverage explicitly presented the plaque text, which could be misconstrued as an “official” release by readers; critics argue the plaques are partisan and misleading while supporters framed them as a legitimate White House exhibit — those conflicting framings are present in the same coverage but none of the supplied sources point to an official White House document that publishes the full verbatim text as a press release or archival entry ^{[1] [10] [4]}. The absence of such a citation in these sources is the reporting limitation: this answer relies on the supplied articles and cannot assert whether an un-cited White House posting exists elsewhere beyond the materials provided ^{[6] [7]}.