Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician who was the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives,serving from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,she was the first woman elected as U.S. House Speaker and the first woman to lead a major political party in either chamber of Congress,leading the House Democrats from 2003 to 2023. A member of the House since 1987,Pelosi currently represents California's 11th congressional district,which includes most of San Francisco. She is the dean of California's congressional delegation.
Huỳnh Công Út,known professionally as Nick Ut,is a Vietnamese-American photographer who worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles. He won both the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the 1973 World Press Photo of the Year for his 1972 photograph The Terror of War,depicting children running away from a napalm bombing attack during the Vietnam War. In 2017,he retired. Examples of his work may be found in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington,DC.
Melania Knauss Trump is a Slovenian and American former model who has been the first lady of the United States since 2025 as the wife of Donald Trump,the 45th and 47th president of the United States. She previously held the role from 2017 to 2021. She is the first naturalized citizen to become first lady,the second foreign-born first lady after Louisa Adams,the second Catholic first lady after Jacqueline Kennedy,and the second first lady to serve two non-consecutive terms after Frances Cleveland.
Mar-a-Lago is a resort and National Historic Landmark in Palm Beach,Florida. It spans 126 rooms and 62,500 sq ft (5,810 m2) built on 17 acres of land. Since 1985,it has been owned by Donald Trump,the president of the United States. The estate has been his primary residence since 2019.
David Hume Kennerly is an American photographer. He won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his portfolio of photographs of the Vietnam War,Cambodia,East Pakistani refugees near Calcutta,and the Ali-Frazier fight in Madison Square Garden. He has photographed every American president since Lyndon B Johnson. He is the first presidential scholar at the University of Arizona.
Beginning with painter Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington,it has been tradition for the president of the United States to have an official portrait taken during their time in office,most commonly an oil painting. This tradition has continued to modern times,although since the adoption of photography as a widely used and reliable technology,the official portrait may also be a photograph.
Peter Joseph Souza is an American photojournalist,the former chief official White House photographer for Presidents of the United States Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama and the former director of the White House Photography Office. He was a photographer with The Chicago Tribune,stationed at the Washington,D.C.,bureau from 1998 to 2007;during this period,he also followed the rise of then-Senator Obama to the presidency.
Bill Clinton was the 42nd president of the United States,serving from 1993 to 2001. After the end of his presidency,he continued to be active in the public sphere,touring the world,writing books,and campaigning for Democrats,including his wife,Hillary Clinton,who served as the junior U.S. senator from New York between 2001 and 2009 and the 67th United States Secretary of State between 2009 and 2013,on her presidential campaigns in 2008,in which she was runner-up for the Democratic nomination,and in 2016,when she lost the election to Donald Trump. After Clinton left office,he ended up forming a close friendship with George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush,and later,with their son George W. Bush.
Chris Buck is a New York-based photographer known for his unconventional portraits.
Hope Charlotte Hicks is an American public relations executive and political advisor who served in President Donald Trump’s administration from 2017 to 2018 and 2020 to 2021. She served as White House director of strategic communications from January to September 2017,as White House communications director from 2017 to 2018,and returned to serve as a counselor to the president from 2020 to 2021.
The official White House photographer is a senior position appointed by the president of the United States to cover the president's official day-to-day duties. There have been twelve official White House photographers. Since the beginning of the second presidency of Donald Trump,the position is currently occupied by Daniel Torok.
Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee Sanders is an American politician serving as the 47th governor of Arkansas since 2023. Sanders is the daughter of Mike Huckabee,who served from 1996 to 2007 as Arkansas's 44th governor. A member of the Republican Party,she was the 31st White House press secretary,serving under President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019. Sanders was the third woman to be White House press secretary. She also served as a senior advisor on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Sanders became the Republican nominee in the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election and won,defeating Democratic nominee Chris Jones.
David Valdez is an American photographer,best known for being the Chief Official White House Photographer from 1989 to 1993,during the presidency of George H. W. Bush.
Doug Mills is an American photographer who has covered the White House since 1983. He began working for The New York Times in 2002,having previously been the chief photographer for The Associated Press in Washington,in which capacity he won two Pulitzer prizes for team coverage. As of February 2019,he is a board member of the White House Correspondents' Association.
On June 22,2018,a co-owner of The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington,Virginia,asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders,then the White House press secretary,to leave. The co-owner later cited Sanders' role in what they called the "inhumane and unethical" Trump administration in which Sanders had "publicly defended the president's cruelest policies." The Red Hen planned to cease operations at the end of December 2023 and rebrand as a new concept.
The 2020 State of the Union Address was given by the 45th president of the United States,Donald Trump,on February 4,2020,at 9:00 p.m. EST,in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 116th United States Congress. It was Trump's third and final State of the Union Address and his fourth and final speech to a joint session of the United States Congress during his first term. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker,Nancy Pelosi,accompanied by Mike Pence,the vice president,in his capacity as the president of the Senate.
Donald Trump,serving as the 45th president of the United States,was impeached for the first time on December 18,2019. On that date,the House of Representatives adopted two articles of impeachment against Trump:abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. On February 5,2020,the Senate voted to acquit Trump on both articles of impeachment.
Erin Schaff is an American photographer and photojournalist. She currently works as a political photographer for The New York Times based in Washington,D.C. She has covered numerous political events in Washington,D.C.,most notably the Ford-Kavanaugh sexual assault hearings,the first impeachment of Donald Trump,and the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
