'TRULY THE WORST'

Trump’s Least Favorite Portrait Is Coming Down After His Tantrum

The president threw a fit online over what he described as a “purposefully distorted” painting of him at the Colorado State Capitol.

President Donald Trump’s “worst” portrait is coming down. Just a day after the president complained about a portrait of him hanging at the Colorado State Capitol, Republican leaders in the state’s legislature moved to have the painting taken down, according to The Associated Press. Trump threw a Truth Social tantrum Sunday night over a portrait produced by artist Sarah Boardman for the state’s Hall of Presidential Portraits: “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 called on Colorado Governor Jared Polis to take the portrait down. Republican Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen said he asked for Trump’s portrait to be brought down and replaced with one “that depicts his contemporary likeness.” Colorado House Democrats said “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 portrait went up in August 2019 after former Colorado Senate President Kevin Grantham set up a fundraiser to get it made.