Trump’s fresh White House portrait sparks interest amid controversy over National Portrait Gallery leadership

Nearly six months into his second term President Donald Trump has a new portrait posted to the White House website White House leaders posted an eight-second video to social media on Monday showing the new portrait being hung on the wall at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus In his previous presidential portrait which was unveiled just days before taking the oath of office for his second term Trump could be seen wearing a blue suit coat white button-up shirt and blue tie The president evidenced no expression in the previous portrait compared to an official portrait taken of him in in which he was grinning LIZ PEEK DONALD TRUMP IS OUR PRESIDENT AND DEMOCRATS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DOIn the portrait unveiled on Monday Trump is wearing a blue suit coat white button-up shirt and a red tie In both images he has an American Flag pinned to his coat The president also shows little expression in the new portrait White House bureaucrats communicated Fox News Digital the photo was taken by White House photographer Daniel Torok TRUMP PORTRAIT HE CLAIMED WAS 'PURPOSEFULLY DISTORTED' TO BE TAKEN DOWN FROM COLORADO CAPITOLAs of Monday evening the photo is hanging in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and it will eventually start rolling out to other offices and federal buildings Trump s new portrait was unveiled just days after he disclosed that he was firing Kim Sajet the director of the National Portrait Gallery for being a strong supporter of diversity equity and inclusion DEI He revealed Sajet s termination in a post on Truth Social on Friday afternoon DONALD TRUMP FIRES NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY DIRECTOR FOR BEING 'STRONG SUPPORTER' OF DEI Upon the request and recommendation of several people I am hereby terminating the employment of Kim Sajet as Director of the National Portrait Gallery the president wrote She is a highly partisan person and a strong supporter of DEI which is totally inappropriate for her position Her replacement will be named shortly Thank you for your attention to this matter A White House official reported Fox News Digital that Sajet had donated to Democrats including the presidential campaigns of former President Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton Sajet also reportedly donated to other Democrats including former Vice President Kamala Harris The White House also pointed to the gallery's photo of Trump which was curated by Sajet The caption of the photo reads Impeached twice on charges of abuse of power and incitement of insurrection after supporters attacked the US Capitol on January he was acquitted by the Senate in both trials After losing to Joe Biden in Trump mounted a historic comeback in the balloting He is the only president aside from Grover Cleveland - to have won a nonconsecutive second term