Discovered by chance

Trump police photo hangs framed in front of Oval Office

(Bild: AFP/Jim Watson, Krone KREATIV)

A front page of the "New York Post" with a historic police photo - a so-called mugshot - of the now incumbent US President Donald Trump from 2023 hangs directly in front of his office in the White House.

As a video posted on X by Dan Scavino, deputy chief of staff at the US government headquarters, shows, a copy of the front page of the US newspaper "New York Post" with the photo in a gold-colored frame is located in front of one of the doors of the famous office. "Welcome to the beautiful Oval Office," Scavino wrote in capital letters on Friday (local time).

Several US media outlets also reported that the picture could be seen through an open door in photos of Trump's meetings, for example with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (local time).

The well-known police photo was taken in a prison in Atlanta in 2023 after charges were brought against Trump in the state of Georgia in connection with attempted election fraud.

Made millions with "mugshot"
In the police photo, Trump can be seen in a dark blue suit, a white shirt and a red tie, looking somewhat darkly into the camera. He immediately used the photo for a marketing campaign: With the slogan "Never surrender!", the "mugshot" was printed on T-shirts, coffee mugs and bumper stickers, flushing around four million dollars into Trump's campaign coffers within a very short space of time at the time.

Trump is the first convicted felon in the history of the USA to hold office.