Overview

• Users noticed on Tuesday that Barack Obama’s LinkedIn experience for president displayed Trump’s image after the White House changed its page photo.
• White House Communications Director Steven Cheung confirmed the move was intentional and framed it as trolling of former staffers.
• The change affected anyone who listed “The White House” as an employer, including multiple Biden aides and the Biden–Harris campaign manager.
• LinkedIn auto-populates a company’s profile image into users’ listed work history, which caused the portrait to cascade across profiles.
• As of Sept. 3, there is no widely reported fix beyond editing one’s employer listing, and the Trump portrait remains on the White House page.