You do realize that virtually every space image is a false-color image, right? Even color visual images are false-color in a way, because those sensors are usually monochrome that use color filters to composite together a color image.
As for it being a politically-motivated release, if that is true, it certainly would not be the first one. The WH has been doing that for about as long as there have been space-based observatories, under both Democrat and Republican administrations. There’s nothing new here to see.