On August 24, 2023, after being indicted on racketeering and related charges, Donald Trump, a former president of the United States who went on to win the 2024 presidential election, voluntarily surrendered himself to authorities at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia, where a mug shot of him was taken. In the photograph, Trump, wearing a blue suit with a white shirt and a red tie, glowers at the camera in front of a gray backdrop. His face is lit from the side and from above. It is the first and thus far only police booking photograph of a U.S. president. After its publication, the mug shot was used on merchandise by Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, in Internet memes, and featured on various media reports worldwide. Since 2025, it has also been on display at an entrance to the Oval Office.

On August 14, 2023, a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, indicted Trump on charges of election racketeering and related offenses, and issued an arrest warrant. The county's district attorney Fani Willis offered him the option to surrender voluntarily. Shortly after 19:30 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), August 24, Trump turned himself in at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia and was booked, given inmate number P01135809, processed and released on bond. At 20:05 EDT, a copy of the booking photograph without the Fulton County Jail watermark was posted on Twitter. CNN released the official image at 21:27.

At 21:38, Trump posted the photograph to X with the text "MUG SHOT - AUGUST 24, 2023, ELECTION INTERFERENCE, NEVER SURRENDER!" The post contained a link to a WinRed page soliciting contributions for his 2024 presidential campaign. The post was the first instance of Trump's activity on Twitter since his account was reinstated in November 2022 by Elon Musk following his acquisition of the platform.

Before Trump's arraignment in April 2023 in New York City, his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, said that any mug shot of Trump would "go down in history as the most famous mug shot ever to exist in America". Ex-Trump spokesman Hogan Gidley joked that such a photograph would be the "most manly, most masculine, most handsome mug shot of all time". No booking photograph was taken during the arraignment, and Trump's campaign website began selling T-shirts featuring a pretend mug shot.

Ninety minutes after Trump's release from the Fulton County Jail on August 24, the Trump campaign began selling T-shirts, mugs, and other merchandise with his booking photograph. On August 26, the campaign said it had raised $7.1 million since the release of the photo. The Lincoln Project, sellers on Etsy, and others also began selling merchandise with the booking photo; the Trump campaign, which did not hold the copyright, threatened to sue any user who did not obtain their prior authorization.

In December 2023, Trump launched a set of digital trading cards as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which he labeled the "Mugshot Edition". 100,000 digital cards were released at a price of $99 each. Customers who purchased 47 or more digital trading cards would receive one of 2,042 limited edition physical trading cards, 25 of which are hand-signed by Trump, along with a piece of the suit that he wore in the Fulton County Jail for the mug shot, and an invitation to dine with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. The first 200 customers who purchased at least 100 cards would receive a unique NFT, two tickets to a cocktail reception with Trump, a second physical card with pieces of Trump's suit and tie, and two additional commemorative cards.

Many newspapers in the United States and other countries featured the mug shot "splashed across" or in articles on the front page of their print issues while others printed teasers with thumbnails of the booking photograph on the front page. Other news outlets reported on the reporting.

Fox News featured the mug shot in an article on an exclusive interview Trump gave them soon after his release from jail. They cited him as saying that "officials in Georgia 'insisted' on a mugshot" and that he "agreed to do that".