Trump moves Obama portrait and replaces it with Butler, PA painting

The White House moved a portrait of President Barack Obama and installed a painting of President Donald Trump shouting 'fight, fight, fight' after being nearly assassinated in its place. 

The Trump administration posted the new painting on social media Friday. 

'Some new artwork at the White House,' a post on the @WhiteHouse X account said, showing a video of tourists walking by the artwork. 

The message included the googly eyes emoji. 

Press aide Harrison Fields also set the record straight that Obama wasn't banished from the White House's ornate entryway.

'Obama remains in the Entrance Hall of the White House State Floor,' Fields said sharing a picture.  

Instead of on the left-hand side when visitors walk in, Obama is now located on the right-hand side of the entryway, near the piano and where the military bands often hold performances for guests. 

Obama took the place of President George W. Bush, who will be rehung to be closer to his father, President George H.W. Bush, the White House told the Associated Press.

The artwork is a painted version of a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci, snapped moments after an assassin's bullet grazed Trump's ear at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. 

At the time Trump yelled out to his supporters: 'Fight, fight, fight!' and pumped his fist, with blood splattered down his face. 

It became a rallying cry during the final months of his 2024 campaign. 

Ironically the photographer who snapped the photo is one of the AP journalists who've been barred with taking a place in the White House 'pool' - the smaller group of journalists who follow the president daily and are allowed into more confined spaces, including Air Force One and the Oval Office. 

In February the White House said it was banishing the AP from the pool over the wire service's refusal to use 'Gulf of America' instead of Gulf of Mexico in its influential style guide. 

Vucci was one of the AP's journalists who testified in the case. 

This week, the AP got good news from a federal judge this week, with the judge granting the AP's request for an injunction to force the White House to allow its reporters back on Air Force One and into the Oval Office. 

Shortly after the ruling, however, an AP reporter and photographer weren't allowed in the motorcade with the rest of the pool to travel to the National Building Museum to watch the president speak at the National Republican Congressional Committee President's Dinner. 

It's also unusual for a sitting president to have a portrait in the White House. 

However, Trump is in a unique position because he's only the second president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive terms. 

The only other was President Grover Cleveland. 

Usually a new portrait is unveiled with great fanfare - and the ceremonies are often bipartisan in nature. 

For instance, President Barack Obama invited former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura back to the White House for a May 2012 portrait unveiling. 

Trump bucked that tradition and did not invite Obama to the White House during his first term. 

Instead President Joe Biden, who served as Obama's vice president, invited the Obamas back for their grand portrait unveiling in September 2022. 

Biden did not hold a similar ceremony for Trump - though it would have more likely happened during a second Biden term had there been one.