Official portraits of Donald Trump

Over the course of his two terms as president of the United States, Donald Trump has been the subject of four official photographic portraits. The contemporary tradition of official presidential photographs dates back to Gerald Ford's 1974 portrait; since Ford, all presidents have been depicted smiling with a flag of the United States in the background. Trump's first portrait was taken in December 2016 by an unnamed staff member, ahead of Trump's first inauguration in January 2017. The portrait was used as a placeholder official portrait until October 2017, when the White House released official portraits of Trump and Vice President Mike Pence after months of delay. In Trump's first official presidential portrait, taken by Shealah Craighead, then the chief White House photographer, he is standing in the Oval Office with an American flag in the background and smiling broadly at the camera.

Before Trump's second inauguration in January 2025, official portraits of him and Vice President–elect JD Vance were taken and released by Daniel Torok, who became Trump's second chief White House photographer. Trump's portrait is more harshly lit than previous photographs, and his facial expression is stern with a raised eyebrow, modeled after his appearance in a mug shot of him taken in 2023. Trump's inaugural portrait was replaced in June 2025 by his second official presidential portrait. In the photograph, taken by Torok, Trump is staring at the camera with a more neutral expression. He is in front of an empty, dark background, without an American flag in the background, the first president to do so since Richard Nixon in 1969.

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