If you had seen this 10 years ago, what would it reveal about the state of our politics?

[Progressive Pessimist]

Biden became President after he ran and won in 2016, defeating President Romney (even back then it was always obvious that Romney would probably be the Republicans' next nominee). That defeat then made the GOP finally come around to accepting Trump as a nominee after he rode his Birther gambit into right wing stardom. (Actually nevermind, he started with that in 2011, so I wouldn't actually have had any idea why Trump got the nomination of a major party at the time-maybe the whole businessman thing?). Regardless, Trump would still have finally succeeded at getting a party's nomination for President after decades of trying. Perhaps he tried it in the Democratic Party four years prior.

[Progressive Pessimist]

If you wanna get deep into the weeds, Trump's portrait might give away that he won in 2016. He wouldn't have had such an official-looking portrait taken in front of the American flag otherwise.

Come to think of it, the (b) after Florida might give it away too (or, at the very least, give away that he'd previously been nominated while living in another state), given how the Nixon CA/NY situation was handled on the 1968 election's wikipedia page.

That isn't his official portrait though, is it? I recall that image being used in 2016 before he won.