President Trump has called for the governor of Colorado to remove a painting that was created during his first term and is displayed in the state capitol.
The president is shown wearing a dark suit and red tie in the oil picture, which was created by Colorado-based artist Sarah Boardman and debuted in 2019. It is displayed in the rotunda of the building’s Gallery of Presidents.
In a post on his Truth Social network on Sunday, Mr. Trump stated, “Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado, in the State Capitol, put up by the Governor, along with all other Presidents, was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before,”
Mr. Trump continued, “The artist also did President Obama, and he looks wonderful, but the one on me is truly the worst,”. He included a picture of the painting, which seemed to soften the president’s appearance, and mentioned that other Colorado residents had complained by phone and letter.
The artist “must have lost her talent as she got older,” he wrote in the tweet, and he also disparaged Colorado’s Democratic governor, Jared Polis, calling him “extremely weak on Crime.”
Mr. Polis said in a statement that he was astonished that the president was a “aficionado” of the structure and its artwork and that he appreciated Mr. Trump’s enthusiasm. Whether the painting would be taken down was not mentioned in the statement.
The artist, Ms. Boardman, who had included the portrait as one of her pieces on her website, did not immediately respond.
The website claims that she won a contest to paint the pictures of Mr. Trump and former President Barack Obama that are displayed at the Denver State Capitol.
Making paintings seem apolitical was vital to Ms. Boardman, she told The Denver Post when the portrait of Mr. Trump was exhibited in 2019.
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