Melania Trump’s New Portrait Breaks With the Past

After the inaugural hat, the official portrait. Once again, Melania Trump is telegraphing to the world that we should not expect first lady business as usual. But perhaps we should expect business?

The picture, which will top Mrs. Trump’s official web page and make its way to the National Archives, was taken by Régine Mahaux, a Belgian photographer and Trump insider who also took Mrs. Trump’s first official portrait in 2017 and whose photographs of the president and Mrs. Trump have appeared on the covers of Us Weekly, French Vanity Fair, Paris Match and Russian Tatler.