A self-approved portrait of President Trump now hangs in the Colorado Capitol – replacing an earlier version he disaproved as “purposefully distorted” and “truly the worst.”
The new painting, created by Tempe, Arizona-based artist Vanessa Horabuena, closely resembles Trump’s current official photograph for his second term in office.
The portrait replaces a previous painting completed by Colorado Springs-based artist Sarah Boardman. Boardman's painting had been up since 2019 after Colorado Senate Republicans raised $10,000 to commission it during Trump's first term in office.
However, it was taken down after Trump publicly criticized it back in March, writing on Truth Social: "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."