A portrait of former President Barack Obama that hung in the Grand Foyer of the White House has been replaced by a painting of a bloodied and defiant Donald Trump raising his fist after an assassination attempt last year at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino posted Friday on X before-and-after photographs of the Obama portrait and the Trump painting in the same area at the bottom of the Grand Staircase. The White House also released a video Friday on its X account showing people walking past the painting of Trump where the Obama portrait used to hang.
Obama’s portrait, by artist Robert McCurdy, shows the former president in a black suit and gray tie in front of a white background. It still hangs in a place of prominence, just across the Grand Foyer from where it had been since 2022, according to a post on X by Harrison Fields, White House principal deputy press secretary.
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