DENVER — A portrait of President Donald hanging on the Colorado state Capitol might be taken down after Trump claimed it was “purposefully distorted,” state officers stated Monday.
Home Democrats stated in a press release that the oil portray can be taken down on the request of Republican leaders within the Legislature.
“If the GOP wants to spend time and money on which portrait of Trump hangs in the Capitol, then that’s up to them,” the Democrats stated.
The portrait was painted by artist Sarah Boardman throughout Trump’s first time period and unveiled in 2019. Colorado Republicans raised greater than $10,000 by a GoFundMe account to fee the oil portray.
In a Sunday night time put up on his Fact Social platform, Trump stated he would like no image at everywhere in the one which hangs within the Colorado Capitol. The Republican lauded a close-by portrait of former President Barack Obama — additionally by Boardman — saying “he looks wonderful.”
“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,” Trump wrote.
The portraits usually are not the purview of the Colorado governor’s workplace, however the Colorado Constructing Advisory Committee.
Boardman didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from The Related Press.
