When I got to know Pauline, in the late 1970s, she looked just like the portrait, as if Hester, who believed in uncanny apparitions, had presciently seen her friend’s older face.

Unlike her 2025 portrait, the first lady's 2017 photo was in color and featured a close-up of her face. The new portrait shows Mrs. Trump standing over a desk with her fingers propped on the top.

Black & White (premiering Oct. 29) takes an in-your-face approach from the first frame: The series begins with an extreme close-up of the real Colin Kaepernick, who serves as narrator and a sort ...