A framed photograph of President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin hangs in the White House, as a photo taken by Bloomberg photographer Kent Nishimura in the Palm Room on Tuesday shows.

The Palm Room connects the West Wing to the White House residence and serves primarily as a lobby, according to the New York Times.

The striking framed photograph in question hangs above a photo of Trump and one of his grandchildren.

Photographs showing US President Donald Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump and one of his grandchildren hang in the Palm Room of the White House in Washington, DC, Tuesday, January 27, 2026.
Photographs showing US President Donald Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump and one of his grandchildren hang in the Palm Room of the White House in Washington, DC, Tuesday, January 27, 2026.

Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Given Trump’s obsession with photographs of leaders, this is almost certainly not an oversight.

According to News themezone White House correspondent SV Dáte, Trump hung a photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the West Wing during his first term. When he left the residence, Trump found a new home for the photo: the bar at Trump Tower in New York.

Last year, Trump had his staff move the official portrait of former President Barack Obama to a corner where most people couldn’t see it. He did the same with portraits of former presidents George W. Bush and George HW Bush.

President Joe Biden’s portrait has not yet been completed, but will undoubtedly receive a similar treatment.

In a colonnade just outside the Palm Room, Trump installed a “Presidential Walk of Fame” whose sole purpose, it seems, is to troll American leaders not named Donald Trump.