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'Full-Blown Meltdown': Trump Flips Out Over A Not-Very-Flattering Official Portrait

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24.03.2025

President Donald Trump spent part of his Sunday railing against a portrait of himself that’s been hanging in the Colorado State Capitol for nearly six years.

“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,” he griped on his Truth Social website.

Trump said a portrait of President Barack Obama created by the same artist, Sarah Boardman, “looks wonderful.”

But the president slammed the image of himself as “truly the worst.”

Check it out in this 2019 photo taken after the unveiling:

President Donald Trump's portrait hangs in the Colorado Capitol after an unveiling ceremony Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, in Denver. Colorado Republicans raised more than $10,000 through a GoFundMe account to commission the portrait, which was painted by Sarah Boardman, an artist who also produced the Capitol's portrait of President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

The president insisted that “many people” have called and written to complain about the image, which he blamed on Democrat Governor Jared Polis.

“Jared should be ashamed of himself!” Trump said as he demanded that Polis take the portrait down.

But Polis wasn’t behind the painting, which was commissioned in 2018, before he took office, after a prankster placed a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin in a spot where an image of Trump should have been, but wasn’t.

There was no image of Trump at the time because no money had been raised to commission it.

When that story went viral, Kevin Grantham ― a Republican who was president of the Colorado Senate at the time ― raised more than $10,000 via crowdfunding for the portrait.

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