Former President Joe Biden raised eyebrows at Syracuse University after an awkward onstage remark comparing a Black member of the school's Board of Trustees to former President Barack Obama. Biden returned to his alma mater for the unveiling of his portrait. The private ceremony featured an oil-on-canvas portrait painted by artist Michael Shane Neal. It will hang in the Law Library Reading Room and be open to the public during regular library hours. Syracuse chairman of the board of trustees Jeffrey M. Scruggs had just honored Biden before the former president took the stage.