Sitting on gold-painted chairs in a secure room within the Mar-a-Lago resort, US President Donald Trump and many of his closest counsel discuss the Syrian catastrophe.
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A photograph of the scene - tweeted by White House press secretary Sean Spicer after President Trump ordered missile strikes on Syrian government targets - may become a defining image of his presidency.
The photograph's cast controls trillions of dollars and the world's most advanced military.
Already, it has been compared to the picture of then president Barack Obama in the White House Situation Room monitoring the strike on Osama Bin Laden with his top advisers.
In the Trump photograph, the President sits at the head of a crowded table in a "sensitive compartmented information facility" - a vault-like room in the Florida resort he has turned into a "Southern White House."
Mr Trump stares stonily ahead at a TV screen for a hook-up with Vice-President Mike Pence, Defence Secretary James Mattis and the United States' most senior military adviser, Joseph Dunford.
To President Trump's right sits his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
The economic heads were present for the President's two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
To President Trump's left sits his chief of staff Reince Priebus, National Security Advisor HR McMaster and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Mr Tillerson will travel to Moscow next week for talks after Russia said US strikes on its ally had further damaged relations between the two superpowers. The secretary of state has said Russia was either incompetent or "complicit" in the Syrian chemical attack near Idlib that killed more than 70 people.
WH photo (ed for security): @potus receives briefing on #syria military strike fr Nat Security team, inc @vp , SECDEF, CJCS via secure VTC pic.twitter.com/aaCnR7xomR??? Sean Spicer (@PressSec) April 7, 2017
One person who does not have a seat at the table is chief strategist Steve Bannon.
His back corner position serves as a neat representation of his demotion from the National Security Council, ordered by President Trump this week.
General McMaster had pushed for the strategist to be dumped from his unorthodox position on the council.
The one woman in the room is Dina Powell, named Deputy National Security Advisor three weeks ago at General McMaster's recommendation.
Ms Powell, a fluent Arabic speaker and former Goldman Sachs employee, had worked for President Trump's daughter Ivanka during the President's transition to office.
To Ms Powell's left sits another Goldman Sachs alumnus, Gary Cohn, who quit as the investment bank's president in December to become the director of the National Economic Council.
Revealing as the scene is, it is not quite the full picture: Mr Spicer said the photograph had been edited for security reasons.
