Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 12:41     Subject: Trump is big mad he looks obese in portrait hanging in state house
Anonymous wrote:He’s gross, end of story.


He's gross, and she's a mediocre painter. She should stick to something other than faces and portraits.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 12:36     Subject: Re:Trump is big mad he looks obese in portrait hanging in state house
Anonymous wrote:I looked at her other work. She's basically photo-realistic although she also says she tries to capture the person's spirit and keep her own thoughts out of the way. A lot of her work looks stiff and frankly much like portraits I've seen in other state houses, which are not art, they are just pictures of people.
It was the Colorado Senate Republicans who unveiled the portrait in 2019.
The picture in his post is blurry, Denver Post has a front on photo of the actual portrait. Honestly, it looks like him except without the glaring orange, and he looks serious. I wonder what his own body image is and I wonder if a painting doesn't feed back to that image as a mirror would.


Then again, he should be grateful that she was so generous. If she's capturing his spirit, it very well could have come out like this.

Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 12:27     Subject: Trump is big mad he looks obese in portrait hanging in state house
He’s gross, end of story.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 12:25     Subject: Re:Trump is big mad he looks obese in portrait hanging in state house
I say it's too flattering. Let's have an art contest where Americans can send in their own portraits of Donald Trump to replace this one.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 12:20     Subject: Trump is big mad he looks obese in portrait hanging in state house
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It never fails to astound me how vain but also insecure the Radical Extreme Right president is. This whole house of cards rests on his fragile ego, which must be tended to like a delicate seedling.


Very few would have seen the picture until he shared it.


It is the Streisand Effect. Now we've all seen it.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 12:16     Subject: Trump is big mad he looks obese in portrait hanging in state house
Anonymous wrote:He should be thanking her. He looks way worse in real life.


+1
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 12:13     Subject: Trump is big mad he looks obese in portrait hanging in state house
The artist paints in a George Washington era style. Stiff and expressionless. She's really not very good.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 12:08     Subject: Trump is big mad he looks obese in portrait hanging in state house
It’s Dorian Gray but in reverse.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 12:00     Subject: Re:Trump is big mad he looks obese in portrait hanging in state house
I looked at her other work. She's basically photo-realistic although she also says she tries to capture the person's spirit and keep her own thoughts out of the way. A lot of her work looks stiff and frankly much like portraits I've seen in other state houses, which are not art, they are just pictures of people.
It was the Colorado Senate Republicans who unveiled the portrait in 2019.
The picture in his post is blurry, Denver Post has a front on photo of the actual portrait. Honestly, it looks like him except without the glaring orange, and he looks serious. I wonder what his own body image is and I wonder if a painting doesn't feed back to that image as a mirror would.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 11:56     Subject: Trump is big mad he looks obese in portrait hanging in state house
Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the resistance, Colorado



To be fair, he does look terrible - in different ways from how he looks terrible in real life. More like a 60 year old used car salesman who keeps a low rent mistress on the side, less like the elderly orange clown burning down our democracy.

That’s exactly what he would have been at 60 had his father not made any money. Think Bill Paxton’s character in True Lies.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 11:47     Subject: Re:Trump is big mad he looks obese in portrait hanging in state house
He is obese. Has he seen a picture of himself or looked in a mirror lately? The portraitist flattered him - his neck is definitely not this firm and his coloring is much more even than it is in real life.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 11:45     Subject: Trump is big mad he looks obese in portrait hanging in state house
Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the resistance, Colorado



To be fair, he does look terrible - in different ways from how he looks terrible in real life. More like a 60 year old used car salesman who keeps a low rent mistress on the side, less like the elderly orange clown burning down our democracy.


I used to see trump on a weekly basis every summer from 2013-2015 at his Bedminster golf club. I was always surprised that he looked more obese and unattractive in person than on tv or in print. I’ll give you a second to digest that. Even worse in person.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 11:19     Subject: Trump is big mad he looks obese in portrait hanging in state house
Anonymous wrote:The only important fact to be gleaned from this kerfuffle is that our “president” is choosing to spend his time on crap like this


+1. Glad we are focusing on what’s important.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 11:19     Subject: Trump is big mad he looks obese in portrait hanging in state house
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's not a great likeness. I wouldn't say he looks obese, it's flattering in that respect, it just doesn't look like him. It looks like a regular statesman, which he is not.


It looks like a high school art student's best work-- not like a portrait by an accomplished artist. Either it was intentional, or the artist isn't very good.


It's actually quite flattering. His hair is tough to work with, and it looks like she did the best she could with that travesty of nature. She gave him a healthy skin tone instead of his favored orange clown makeup. He should be complimenting her.


+1. This wasn’t a DNC hit job. Funded by donors to a GOP linked group, based on a photo provided. He’s mad that he looks fat. But look at photos of his first term. He, like Elmo, has clearly done the Ozempic thing. He has slimmed down some and looks thinner now than he did in 2020.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2025 11:14     Subject: Trump is big mad he looks obese in portrait hanging in state house
Anonymous wrote:Let’s make this the official portrait!


I went to the Portrait gallery recently with a friend visiting and stopped by the Obama portraits. And Trump has one. It’s fine. Very standard and basic, unlike the Obamas. But fine. The artist definitely made him thinner, and less orange and less deranged looking. I was surprised to see it, because the Obama unveiling was such a media event, and when my friend asked about the Trump portrait, I was like “hmmm. Haven’t heard anything. Maybe it’s not there yet. Which would be weird, because stuff like that it very important to Trump.” But it was there. And so generic that I might have walked right past it and not noticed if I wasn’t looking.