British-born artist Sarah Boardman, who now lives in Colorado Springs, painted the portrait in 2019.
“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 wrote on his TruthSocial platform.
Colorado Republicans raised more than $10,000 through a GoFundMe account to commission the oil painting, which was unveiled in 2019.
“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 Democrats said.
Boardman has not commented on the latest developments, but in interviews from the time with The Denver Post, she said it was important that her depictions of both Obama and Trump looked apolitical.
It came as the Kremlin confirmed that Vladimir Putin had gifted Trump a new portrait, which the president is said to have described as “beautiful”.
The gift was first mentioned last week by Witkoff in an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
During his interview with Carlson, Witkoff described Putin’s gift as “gracious” and recalled how Putin told him he had prayed for Trump last year when he heard the then-candidate for the US presidency had been shot at a rally in Pennsylvania.
It was not immediately known if the portrait Putin gave to Trump had been examined for bugs. The White House has not commented on the portrait.
In 2021, the Russian leader gave then-President Joe Biden a $12,000 lacquer writing box and pen when they met at a summit in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2013, he reportedly sent then-President Barack Obama porcelain plates and espresso cups.
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