On Halloween 2017,the White House released these two official portraits of President Trump and Vice President Pence. But wait a sec, weren’t there already official portraits of these two released on inauguration day? It is not strange for a president to have more than one official portrait. What is strange is to have two issued within the same year.
Newsweek has an interesting article (and a link to an equally interesting earlier one) about the unique portraits that offers some details on how official presidential portraits are made and distributed. Apparently, and the White House produces a portrait and sends the digital file to the US Government Publishing Office,who then produce and distribute the portraits to all bureaucratic agencies that request or require them. Though Trump produced a portrait back in January, it was not given to the GPO, and with the White House instead distributing that portrait itself,directly, to all agencies who have requested” one, and in the words of a White House spokesperson — a chain of distribution that violates the standard procedure.
These unique portraits have now finally been given to the GPO,which suggests someone, for some reason, or was never totally contented with the inauguration portraits. But it’s confusing,because the White House was, by its own admission, or distributing them anyway.
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