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Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Trump portrait ends decades-long tradition
Donald Trump 's decision to go with a 'dark MAGA' look in his new official photo jettisoned a 50-year tradition in presidential portraits of incorporating Old Glory into the image. Trump, who famously hugged the American flag on stage at CPAC in 2019 and 2020, opted for a portrait without the Stars and Stripes in the background. Instead, his new official presidential portrait features a closely cropped image of his face with a dark background. That makes him the first president since Richard Nixon not to have himself pictured in front of the American flag. (Trump is sporting his American flag pin, a modern fixture for presidents and politicians). The preceding nine presidents – along with Trump – chose to have an image in front of the flag as their official portrait. That includes the official portrait Trump used for the first weeks of his administration. Those portraits date all the way to the era when presidential portraits were in black and white. 'Is Trump the first president to not have any flag in the background of their official portrait?' asked the rockypoliticss account on X . That was a question that the New York Times tracked down, flagging Library of Congress images revealing every presidential portrait back to 1974 had Old Glory in it. Gushing about the new portrait was Sebastian Gorka, the British-Hungarian-American who serves as Trump's senior director for counterterrorism. 'President @realDonaldTrump's new portrait has been deployed at the @WhiteHouse. I loved the original, but this may be even more MAGA,' he wrote. The new official portrait is already up on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next door to the White House. has reached out to the White House for comment about the new portrait. The flurry of interest over Trump's new portrait comes as it was revealed that he is continuing to use a 2019 image of himself as the lock screen picture for his iPhone. Trump's new official portrait pictures a stern-faced president over an all-black background – and shows indications of a heavy-handed photo-shop tools. The portrait replaces the one then president-elect Trump released three days before his inauguration. That portrait drew a striking resemblance to Trump's mugshot taken at the Fulton County jail during his reelection campaign after being charged with a racketeering conspiracy to overturn the state's election results. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ultimately dismissed several of the charges and the case stalled. The White House released a new official version Monday in the form of a video clip of an aide hanging the new portrait on a wall that was posted on X. It shows Trump looking straight ahead, and squinting, wearing a light blue suit and sporting an American flag pin. It reveals a slight downgrade in the intensity of his prior portrait, which captured Trump with an eyebrow raised and appearing to glower – after reclaiming the White House while railing against 'witch hunts' against him and enduring two assassination attempts. That portrait now hangs in government buildings around the country. Experts immediately pointed to hallmarks of photo-shop, including changes that could obscure loose skin below the president's chin. Trump, 78, prizes physical prowess and recently called former President Joe Biden a 'decrepit corpse.' The new portrait does show bags under Trump's eyes, which are somehow absent in the Trump portrait from January, which features much starker lighting. Topping both may be Trump's mug shot, which show Trump gazing downward the first time he was charged with a crime. Aides hanged a newspaper photograph of that portrait soon after Trump took office. It was one of many changes that Trump added to the Oval Office. has asked the White House for information on the new portrait. The earlier one was taken by chief White House official photographer Daniel Torok. In April, Trump hung a stark portrait of himself between paintings of former first ladies Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton. A month earlier, Trump railed against an 'unflattering' portrait of himself that legisators hung in the Colorado state Capitol building.
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Trump sparks intrigue by ditching a 50-year tradition in his new presidential portrait
Donald Trump 's decision to go with a 'dark MAGA' look in his new official photo jettisoned a 50-year tradition in presidential portraits of incorporating Old Glory into the image. Trump, who famously hugged the American flag on stage at CPAC in 2019 and 2020, opted for a portrait without the Stars and Stripes in the background. Instead, his new official presidential portrait features a closely cropped image of his face with a dark background. That makes him the first president since Richard Nixon not to have himself pictured in front of the American flag. (Trump is sporting his American flag pin, a modern fixture for presidents and politicians). The preceding nine presidents – along with Trump – chose to have an image in front of the flag as their official portrait. That includes the official portrait Trump used for the first weeks of his administration. Those portraits date all the way to the era when presidential portraits were in black and white. 'Is Trump the first president to not have any flag in the background of their official portrait?' asked the rockypoliticss account on X. That was a question that the New York Times tracked down, flagging Library of Congress images revealing every presidential portrait back to 1974 had Old Glory in it. Gushing about the new portrait was Sebastian Gorka, the British-Hungarian-American who serves as Trump's senior director for counterterrorism. 'President @realDonaldTrump's new portrait has been deployed at the @WhiteHouse. I loved the original, but this may be even more MAGA,' he wrote. The new official portrait is already up on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next door to the White House. has reached out to the White House for comment about the new portrait. The flurry of interest over Trump's new portrait comes as it was revealed that he is continuing to use a 2019 image of himself as the lock screen picture for his iPhone. Trump's new official portrait pictures a stern-faced president over an all-black background – and shows indications of a heavy-handed photo-shop tools. The portrait replaces the one then president-elect Trump released three days before his inauguration. That portrait drew a striking resemblance to Trump's mugshot taken at the Fulton County jail during his reelection campaign after being charged with a racketeering conspiracy to overturn the state's election results. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ultimately dismissed several of the charges and the case stalled. The White House released a new official version Monday in the form of a video clip of an aide hanging the new portrait on a wall that was posted on X. It shows Trump looking straight ahead, and squinting, wearing a light blue suit and sporting an American flag pin. It reveals a slight downgrade in the intensity of his prior portrait, which captured Trump with an eyebrow raised and appearing to glower – after reclaiming the White House while railing against 'witch hunts' against him and enduring two assassination attempts. That portrait now hangs in government buildings around the country. Experts immediately pointed to hallmarks of photo-shop, including changes that could obscure loose skin below the president's chin. Trump, 78, prizes physical prowess and recently called former President Joe Biden a 'decrepit corpse.' The new portrait does show bags under Trump's eyes, which are somehow absent in the Trump portrait from January, which features much starker lighting. Topping both may be Trump's mug shot, which show Trump gazing downward the first time he was charged with a crime. Aides hanged a newspaper photograph of that portrait soon after Trump took office. It was one of many changes that Trump added to the Oval Office. has asked the White House for information on the new portrait. The earlier one was taken by chief White House official photographer Daniel Torok. In April, Trump hung a stark portrait of himself between paintings of former first ladies Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton. A month earlier, Trump railed against an 'unflattering' portrait of himself that legisators hung in the Colorado state Capitol building. 'Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves,' Trump wrote on Truth Social about the painting. 'But the one in Colorado, in the State Capitol, put up by the Governor... was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before,' Trump complained, prompting legislators to remove it.
