A new, “orange” portrait of President Donald Trump appears to be the latest in a run of paintings hanging in the White House, with a senior aide teasing there’s “more to come.”
Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka unveiled the artwork just hours after Trump hosted leaders from across Europe in hopes of finding a path to peace in Ukraine.
The new painting shows a non-smiling Trump striding between a row of American flags, wearing a trademark navy suit and red tie combo set to a luminous burnt orange backdrop.
“One of the new @WhiteHouse paintings of President @realDonaldTrump,” Gorka wrote on X Monday evening. “More to come.”
The White House told The Independent that artist Vanessa Horabuena was behind the painting, which is hanging in the West Wing between Lower and Upper Press Offices.
On Monday, as nine leaders of European nations and NATO posed for their “family photo” in the Grand Foyer ahead of a multilateral meeting in the East Room, Trump showed off another new artwork.
Flanked by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to his right and French President Emmanuel Macron to his left, Trump pointed to a large painting depicting a bloodied president pumping his fist in Butler, Pennsylvania, last summer, after he survived an assassination attempt.
“That was not a good day,” he said. “That was not a great day. See the picture.”
The portrait joins an array of new paintings hung on the White House walls since Trump returned to office in January.
In April, the president hung a striking new portrait of himself in the East Wing area with his face painted with the American flag. The picture was wedged between portraits of former first ladies Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush.
A month later, the president unveiled a piece in the West Wing that features him alongside former GOP presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, in front of an American flag.
Trump, however, is notoriously particular about his depiction in paintings and portraits hanging in public institutions.
The president flew into a fit of rage in March, demanding that a portrait of himself painted by artist Sarah Boardman be removed from the Colorado Capitol building. Trump peddled a conspiracy theory that it was “purposely distorted” in an alleged petty plot orchestrated by Colorado Governor Jared Polis.
The White House has donated a portrait, also painted by Horabuena, of Trump to the Colorado Capitol to replace one that the president hates.
The Independent has contacted the White House for more information.
