WASHINGTON (AP) — One picture reveals President Donald Trump staring straight forward stone-faced, monitoring the mission that took out three Iranian nuclear enrichment websites on Saturday.
In one other picture, Trump stands as his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, Dan Caine, seems to talk. And at any time when Trump is pictured, he’s donning a brilliant purple hat blaring his signature marketing campaign slogan, “Make America Nice Once more.”
The collection of images that the White Home revealed on its X account Saturday offers the general public a uncommon glimpse contained in the Scenario Room — once more stirring the intrigue that happens any time photos from the extremely secret advanced are launched.
( Recall the picture of then-president Barack Obama watching the raid that killed Osama bin Laden?)
The images from Saturday portrayed Trump with senior members of his group, together with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio — doubling as Trump’s nationwide safety adviser — White Home chief of employees Susie Wiles and Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth. They’re gathered round a big wood desk in the principle convention room of the Scenario Room, generally known as the “JFK Room” — named for the president who was in workplace when the Scenario Room was established.
Trump is all the time in sharp focus at any time when he’s pictured, at the same time as different officers within the foreground — like Hegseth or Vance — are softly blurred.
The 2 officers closest to Trump when he’s seated are Vance and Rubio, maybe underscoring the depth of their affect as Trump deliberated for days whether or not to strike Iran.
However the president isn’t all the time sitting nonetheless. At factors, Trump was roaming across the room, standing behind his prime aide Wiles as Caine appeared to talk. Some images present Cupboard members sitting nonetheless, intently watching one thing, whereas others present a relative flurry of actions — the joint chiefs chairman pointing animatedly, Hegseth conferring with one other official.
There are half-empty water bottles on the wood convention desk, together with disposable cups that includes the White Home seal. Colourful highlighters. A thick binder in entrance of Caine.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe had a binder and papers in entrance of him as effectively, though his paperwork seemed to be blurred — actually for safety causes.
Senior administration officers not thought-about principals had been additionally there. Within the again in a single picture is Dan Scavino, the president’s omnipresent deputy chief of employees. In one other, White Home counsel David Warrington is pictured.
The Scenario Room that Trump and his nationwide safety group sat in is a vastly totally different one than from his earlier time period. The sprawling advanced positioned on the bottom flooring of the West Wing underwent a $50 million renovation that was accomplished in 2023.
