Donald Trump has demanded the removal of a ‘purposefully distorted’ presidential portrait hung in the Colorado State Capitol.

The 78-year-old is seething at his predecessor Barack Obama looking better than him on a wall of portraits of US presidents.

‘He looks wonderful’, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform last night. ‘But the one on me is truly the worst.’

For the first two-and-a-half years of Trump’s last term in office, his face was noticeably absent from the gallery.

Portraits are funded by private donations, not public funds, and none had been forthcoming.

That was until a portrait of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin appeared in front of Trump’s spot in July 2018, courtesy of an activist from ProgressNow Colorado, who snuck in.

Suddenly, fuelled by anger, the money flowed. Within 32 hours, the $10,000 target had been reached.

‘It’s only fitting that a populist, such as the president, would have the first crowd-funded campaign for a presidential portrait’, former state senate president Kevin Grantham, who led the fundraising, said.
Commissioned to paint it was Sarah A. Boardman, a British-born artist , now based in Colorado Springs, who painted the Obama portrait during his time in office.

She had stepped up to the job after Lawrence Williams, who painted the previous 43, died in 2003.
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