Ex-president Barack Obama and his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, returned to the White House on Wednesday to unveil their official portraits more than five years after the former president left office.

“When future generations walk these halls and look up at these portraits, I hope they get a better, honest sense of who Michelle and I were,” said the former president.

The event was hosted by current U.S. president Joe Biden, who served two terms as Obama’s vice president.

Biden said: "There are few people I have known with more integrity, more decency and more courage than Barack Obama…Nothing could have prepared more for being president of the United States than being by your side for eight years. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart."

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