New Trump portrait set for unveiling at Colorado Capitol after president complained about old one
A new White House-approved portrait of President Donald Trump will soon hang in the Colorado State Capitol The new portrait bears a close resemblance to Trump s official photograph for his second term in office albeit with him wearing a blue tie in the painting versus a red one in the photo The painting casts Trump against a black background instead of the textured brown and black in the portraits of his predecessors A new portrait of President Donald Trump that was provided by the White House is set to be unveiled soon in the Colorado State Capitol after it's framed Provided by Colorado Legislative Council Staff Colorado s legislative leadership has agreed to display Trump s new portrait temporarily while leaders discuss the future of the Capitol s presidential portrait gallery On Thursday former Sen Lois Court the chair of the Capitol Building Advisory Committee stated the group will have a thorough discussion of all the presidential portraits at our next meeting in September The White House donated the portrait after Trump objected to a prior painting that had been on display since 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 on his social media platform Truth Social in March Colorado Senate Republicans raised in to commission the original portrait of Trump Colorado Springs artist Sarah Boardman painted that image as well as the one for former President Barack Obama a Democrat A previous portrait of President Donald Trump hangs on a wall in the Colorado State Capitol on March Photo by Helen H Richardson The Denver Post Boardman reported then that she strove to make both paintings apolitical Former Senate President Kevin Grantham who led the benefit event recalled in March that the portrait s unveiling was nothing but smiles and applause and endorsement for the artist and her work Legislative leadership took down the portrait the day after Trump s criticisms Boardman announced in April that Trump s accusations were directly and negatively impacting my business of over years which now is in danger of not recovering Related Articles Supreme Court has cases to decide including birthright citizenship States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood the Supreme Court rules Key Medicaid provision in Trump s bill is revealed to violate Senate rules The GOP is scrambling Ozone days and stifling heat are not the days to cut EV tax credits Letters Federal judge orders US Labor Department to keep Job Corps running during lawsuit The new portrait was painted by Vanessa Horabuena of Tempe Arizona Horabuena s website describes her as a Christian worship artist and features patriotic and religious works History Colorado framed the new portrait Thursday ahead of it going on display and mentioned in the late afternoon that it had been returned to Capitol building staff The portrait will be displayed in the third-floor rotunda of the state Capitol but there was no firm timeline Thursday afternoon for when it would go up Stay up-to-date with Colorado Politics by signing up for our weekly newsletter The Spot
