Smithsonian hangs portrait of Trump for inauguration

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has added a portrait of Donald Trump in honor of the president-elect’s inauguration.

The photograph, taken in 1989 for Fortune magazine, was donated by photographer Michael O’Brien back in 2011 and put on display this week. It’s also the same photo Trump used for his second book “Trump: Surviving at the Top.”

The portrait shows Trump in front of a blue sky, tossing a red apple into the air, a nod to New York as the Big Apple.

{mosads}Gallery senior historian David Ward said the Smithsonian has four images of Trump in its collection, including the O’Brien portrait, two sketches by the Wall Street Journal and a caricature, according to a report from ABC News.

Ward said the museum chose the O’Brien portrait because it serves as a “bridge between [Trump’s] business and the private career and now his public one.”

The caricature, while nice, said Ward, “wouldn’t really be appropriate for the incoming president.”

The Trump photograph will be on display in Washington D.C. through the end of February. 

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