Trump complains about Colorado portrait years after it was unveiled – video
by Guardian Staff from US news | The Guardian on (#6W54K)
Donald Trump complained in a social media post about a portrait of him that has been hanging in the Colorado state capitol since 2019. The US president said that the painting 'was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before'. In the post, Trump blamed Colorado governor Jared Polis for the portrait and demanded it be taken down. However, a Republican senator had commissioned the portrait using fund from a GoFundMe campaign. Colorado Senate Republicans hosted an event alongside the artist in 2019 to hang the painting, which had been approved by the group
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