Trump's second term portrait shows the president unsmiling, a departure from his first term portrait and of his immediate ...

The last president to use a plain background was Richard Nixon. Most presidents over the last century, including Nixon, were also smiling in their official portraits.

Richard Milhous Nixon, Law School ‘37, is the only U.S. president Duke has produced in its century. “Few came so far, so fast, so alone,” biographer John A. Farrell wrote about the man who ...

Trump’s new official portrait lacked two elements his predecessors had in their photographs in recent decades, including an American flag in the background.