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An emblematic painting of President Donald Trump surviving an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania last summer is now suspended from the Grand Hall of the White House, after an official portrait of former president Barack Obama was moved by the location.
The official social media account of the White House has published an image of the Trump painting – the authenticity of which two managers confirmed separately at CNN. The portrait of Obama was moved through the Grand Hall in place of a portrait president of George W. Bush. The 43rd president was moved to reach his father by a nearby staircase.
The dramatic image of Trump raising his right fist, with blood splashed on his face, has become an emblem of force in his presidential campaign. Friday morning, he was hung in one of the most important places in the east wing of the White House.
The tradition of the White House calls the portraits of the most recent American presidents who receive the most important placement, at the entrance to the executive manor, visible for guests during official events. An official portrait of Trump has not yet been revealed, but a The official said that the president wanted this moment to Butler, in Pennsylvania, to play the role of prominence.
This decision recalls a decision made that Trump in his first mandate, when he replaced the portraits of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush in the Grand Foyer, rather choosing William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
The portrait of Obama is always suspended in a prominence place, just opposite the Grand Haller from which he has been since 2022. A portrait of former president Joe Biden has not been finished.
CNN contacted the historic association of the White House for Comments. A spokesperson for Obama refused to comment.
Funded private by the historic association of the White House for non -profit, the official tradition of the presidential portrait became in the early 1960s under the first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, according to The former curator of the White House Betty Monkman. Previously, there had been a relatively “random” policy, said Monkman in a 2017 podcast for the association, with the portraits funded by the congress or commanded by friends – or by the president himself.
The details on the origin of this Trump portrait, his artist and who paid for him were not immediately clear, although he seems to be based on emblematic photographs of Trump taken for a few moments after the assassination of his butler in July 2024, in Pennsylvania, the photographer of the associated press Evan Vucci and the photographer of the New York Times.
In the modern era of the portraits of the White House, the presidents and the first ladies invited their predecessors, former staff and friends and family to reveal ceremonies.
“It is a declaration of generosity for the current president and the First Lady to invite all these people from an outgoing administration,” said Monkman, recalling a ceremony during the Johnson administration for the portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt.
The new table was transported inside the west wing early Tuesday morning and was suspended without a pump and significant circumstance on Friday morning, according to a person familiar with the issue.
The official portraits of the president and the first lady of the collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery are currently underway, although an uniform has not yet been announced. These two portraits will be paid by private funds, including a donation of $ 650,000 from Save America PAC of Trump, and an additional private donation, which supports artist costs, shipping, framing, installation and events, according to the spokesperson for the National Portrait Gallery Concetta Duncan.
An impression of a 1989 photograph By Michael O’Brien of a smiling Trump in a suit, throwing a red apple, is also in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
