A challenging and bleeding Donald Trump will be the first to greet visitors who arrive at the primary and formal entrance of the White House.
The greeting comes in the form of painting from the iconic photo of Trump surviving the attempted murder at Butler, Pennsylvania, in July of the presidential campaign of 2024. Until Friday, he hangs in the great lobby of the White House.
The White House announced the measure as “some new works of art” in its accounts X and Instagram.
The painting replaces a portrait of former President Barack Obama who had hung there since 2022. That has now moved to a new prominent place, the entrance hall of the state floor of the White House, which was previously occupied by the portrait of George W. Bush. Bush’s portrait, in turn, has been transferred to a staircase near the residence, also an outstanding place.
The new painting of the lobby captures the moment when Trump raised his fist, pumping the words “fight, fight, fight”, which became a cry of campaign management and photography of the moment.
Associated Press reported that the original canvas painting “was made by artist Marc Lipp and was donated to the White House by Andrew Pollock through the Blue Gallery in Delray Beach, Florida.”
AP said:
Lipps online biography as part of the Blue Gallery website describes it as “a modern pop art that translates its love for art through paintings and sculptures.” Pollack is an author and defender of school security whose daughter Meadow was among the students killed in the mass shooting of 2018 in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
AP also implied that the portrait can be a matter of Trump’s perceived competition with previous presidents:
Regardless of the affiliation to the party, the acting president had greatly organized or organized to his immediate predecessor for the inauguration of his portrait, but Trump did not extend that courtesy to Obama.
The then President Joe Biden, and his wife, Jill, was left to welcome former President Obama and his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, the White House for the presentation of her portraits in 2022.
The departure said that the official Biden portrait has not yet been completed.
It is known that Trump weighs how it is portrayed by artists and photographers. Last month, a Trump painting that had hung with other presidential portraits was reported in the Colorado Capitol was tasks after he said that his similarity was “distorted on purpose.”
The president suggested that British artist Sarah Boardman “must have lost her talent as she aged.” He added: “The artist also did President Obama, and he looks wonderful, but the one that occurs to me is really the sausage.”
