The bold warning to Melania Trump's critics hidden in her new official White House portrait
The bold warning to Melania Trump's critics hidden in her new official White House portrait
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In 2017 it took almost three months for the White House to release an official portrait of the new First Lady who in a significant break from tradition had yet to move permanently into the executive mansion. Amidst swirling rumours that Melania’s relocation was contingent upon (from her view) successful renegotiation of her pre-nup, she was a largely absent figure in the Trump eco-system, and certainly a peripheral presence as the administration crafted its public image.
![[Melania and President Donald Trump are pictured at the Liberty Ball during the 60th Presidential Inauguration last week]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/01/94581067-14331923-image-a-24_1738029286214.jpg)
Fast forward four years and this time things, like so much else in Trump 2.0, look very different. Less than twenty-four hours after watching her husband be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, Melania found herself, bags already unpacked, standing in front of her long-time photographer Regine Mahaux in the distinctive Yellow Oval Room, supposedly one of Melania’s favorite’s, posing for a picture that even for more traditionally minded presidential consorts rarely appears with such haste.
Melania Trump's White House portrait was released on Monday. Like the bombardment of executive orders and policy announcements that sprang from the West Wing in opening hours of the new administration, Melania’s lightning-fast pictorial statement - in bold black and white (another barrier breaking feature of the image) - makes clear that she too realizes that not only is there no time to waste in declaring herself part of a presidential triumvirate (she is picture three in the line-up after her husband and his vice-president on the White House homepage).
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