President Donald Trump officially took over the @POTUS Twitter account on Friday:

Screengrab by the author



The new Twitter background made me wonder: Whose inauguration is this from? The answer:



Yeah, it’s from President Obama’s inauguration in 2009. carterdayne/Getty Images

Maybe the background was Melania’s idea?

Update, 1:20 p.m.: The team at Full Frontal With Samantha Bee has provided Trump a more accurate background:

Noticed you had to use an old Obama inauguration photo for your banner, so we fixed it for you. pic.twitter.com/qTkPCuGUY9 — Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) January 20, 2017

Update, 1:55 p.m.: For the record, the background wasn’t a vestige of Obama’s account—here is a screengrab of how Obama’s @POTUS Twitter page looked just Thursday evening:

Obama’s Twitter background yesterday. (The photo, his longtime background, showed the 50th anniversary march in Selma.) Screengrab by Slate’s Sam Adams

Regardless, someone on Trump’s social media team must have seen that they’d been caught, because they’ve changed the background for the second time today.

Screengrab by Forrest Wickman



At least they seem to have chosen the right flag?

Update, 2:50 p.m.: @POTUS has changed Twitter backgrounds for the third time today, this time to a photo that is clearly a little too grainy to make an ideal header. Maybe someone can tweet him a higher-resolution image?



Screengrab by the author



The smooth transition continues!