There’s a big empty space on the wall above the information desk at the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Federal Building near North Station. At the John Joseph Moakley US Courthouse, two lonely hooks protrude from the wall near the elevators.

Portraits of President Trump could not be found hanging at federal buildings in Boston on Tuesday morning. Nearly eight months into his controversial presidency, there were blank spaces in the usual prominent places where the president’s portrait is typically displayed.

The Washington Post reports that, in a surprising twist for a president who is such a showman, the missing portraits are a national phenomenon. They haven’t been hung in thousands of federal courthouses, laboratories, military installations, ports of entry, and US embassies.