White House Hangs Bold New Trump Painting Where Hillary Clinton’s Portrait Was – and It Has a Hidden Detail

A new and very unusual painting of Donald Trump has just been added to a wall in the East Wing of the White House. It shows Trump’s face blended with an image of the American flag, and it’s now hanging between the official portraits of two former first ladies, Laura Bush and Patricia Nixon. The artwork appeared around June 18, 2025 — the same day Trump hosted a flag-raising event for two massive 88-foot flagpoles he says he paid for himself, one on the North Lawn and one on the South Lawn.

This painting has caught a lot of attention because it’s far from the traditional presidential portraits usually displayed at the White House. It replaced the portrait of Hillary Clinton, which had been hanging in that spot. The Clinton portrait wasn’t removed by the White House itself, though — it’s currently on loan to the Clinton Presidential Center in Arkansas for an exhibit called “Portraits From a Presidency.” So, the White House only decided what would go in its place.

The new painting of Trump was created by a pro-Trump artist known as “MAGA Angelo,” who is known for making bold, patriotic images of conservative political figures. He has made similar artworks of Melania Trump and Ronald Reagan. His painting of Trump is especially eye-catching and clearly breaks with the usual style of art displayed in the presidential residence.

This isn’t the only major change Trump has made to the White House since returning to office in January 2025. He’s also been redesigning the space in line with his own tastes and political branding. For example, earlier in the year, he had Barack Obama’s official portrait removed from the Grand Foyer — a highly visible spot where the two most recent presidents’ portraits usually hang — and replaced it with a painting based on a dramatic photo of himself raising a fist after surviving an assassination attempt in July 2024. The bullet had grazed his ear during a rally in Pennsylvania.

Normally, portraits of the two most recent presidents are featured in the Grand Foyer so guests and visitors see them right away. Since neither Trump’s nor Biden’s official portraits are finished yet, the ones on display had been Obama’s and George W. Bush’s. But now Obama’s portrait has been moved across the foyer, and Bush’s has been relocated next to his father’s portrait in a different hallway.

Trump made similar changes during his first term too. Back then, he took down the portraits of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and instead put up paintings of Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

Other Trump-related art pieces have popped up around the White House this term as well. A framed copy of the New York Post’s front page showing Trump’s mug shot from 2023 has been seen near the Oval Office. In the same area, he’s also hung a framed version of the Declaration of Independence, flanked by blue curtains.

When a journalist asked Trump what the Declaration of Independence meant to him, he said it represented unity, love, and respect, and called it something very special to the country.

These changes show that Trump is reshaping the White House in ways that reflect his personal style, political message, and image — sometimes dramatically breaking from long-standing presidential traditions.