White House replaces Obama’s portrait with painting of Trump after assassination attempt

The White House underwent some interior decorating on Friday, as Barack Obama’s official presidential portrait was replaced with a painting depicting President Donald Trump shortly after the attempt on his life in Pennsylvania, blood near his mouth and right ear.

“Some new artwork at the White House,” the White House tweeted Friday afternoon along with the eyes emoji.

The Trump painting now hangs where White House visitors used to see Obama’s official portrait.

Harrison Fields, special assistant to the president and White House principal deputy press secretary, indicated Obama’s portrait was merely moved and not entirely taken down.

“Obama remains in the Entrance Hall of the White House State Floor,” he tweeted.

The rearranging occurred two weeks after Trump urged for his portrait hanging in the Colorado State Capitol’s Gallery of Presidents to be taken down, claiming its “distorted” look was on display due to politics.

FILE – President Donald Trump’s portrait hangs in the Colorado Capitol after an unveiling ceremony, Aug. 1, 2019, in Denver. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, File)AP

“Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado, in the State Capitol, put up by the Governor, along with all other Presidents, was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

The unveiling of the portrait on Aug. 1, 2019 — at an event hosted by the Colorado Senate Republicans and artist Sarah Boardman of Colorado Springs — was described as nonpartisan by organizers.

The portrait, commissioned during Trump’s first term, was paid for with a Republican-led fundraising effort and approved by Colorado Republicans before it was put on display in 2019.