- Ivanka Trump, 43, shared a cheeky snap of son Theo, eight, and her father, 78
- It was a recreation of a historic picture of President John F. Kennedy and his son
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As April came to a close, Ivanka Trump shared a few snaps of family fun throughout the past month.
In one picture, her eight-year-old son Theo had climbed beneath President Donald Trump‘s desk to poke his head out through a door at the front.
The cheeky black-and-white photo also featured a smiling Trump, 78, who sat behind the desk in the Oval Office wearing his signature Make America Great Again cap.
Ivanka’s picture was a recreation of an iconic, historic picture of President John F. Kennedy and his son, John. F. Kennedy Jr., who was also playing beneath the desk.
The original picture was taken by Alan Stanley Tretick who was a Look magazine photojournalist that often captured moments of Kennedy and his family.
Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy was not a fan of having pictures of her children taken for the sake of politics, but she wasn’t at the White House at the time, per Irish Star.
In October 1963, JFK invited Tretick into the Oval Office for a family session while grieving the loss of a prematurely born child.
The desk in the picture is known as the ‘Resolute desk’ and it is made from the oak timbers of the British ship H.M.S. Resolute and was given as a gift to President Rutherford B. Hayes from Queen Victoria in 1880, per The White House Historical Association.
In one picture, Ivanka’s eight-year-old son Theo had climbed beneath President Donald Trump’s desk to poke his head out through a door at the front
The picture was a recreation of an iconic, historic picture of President John F. Kennedy and his son, John. F. Kennedy Jr., who was also playing beneath the desk
Every president has used the desk except Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and Ford.
It wasn’t always in the Oval Office either – it was first used in the President’s Office on the Second Floor of the Residence from 1880 to 1902.
In 1945, the desk’s rear kneehole was fitted with a panel carved with the Presidential Coat-of-Arms, and President Harry S. Truman was the first to sit at the new version.
It was first used in the Oval Office after JFK requested it.
There is a brass plaque on the desk that explains the history of its creation from the breaking of the ship to it being gifted to President Hayes.
In another recent post, Ivanka shared a heartwarming video of Theo as he sat perched behind a piano.
Theo, who was dressed in a smart off-white suit, masterfully played an original song on the historic instrument as grandfather Donald Trump affectionately watched on.
‘Theo debuting his first original composition for Grandpa last night at The White House,’ Ivanka wrote to caption the performance.
As April came to a close, Ivanka shared a few snaps of family fun throughout the past month
He was playing a Steinway grand piano that was presented to FDR in 1938 by Theodore Steinway, per The White House Historical Association.
It has gold leaf decorations representing ‘five musical forms indigenous of America,’ including a New England barn dance, a cowboy playing his guitar, the Virginia reel, two black field hands – one clapping and one dancing – and an Indian ceremonial dance.
The grand piano also has three mahogany legs carved as American eagles.
It has stood in the entrance hall to the White House since 1989 and is often played by members of the Marine Band during social functions.






