Colorado Democrats signed off on GOP efforts to remove a portrait of President Donald Trump hanging in the state Capitol that the president said was “a bad picture” of himself.
On Sunday evening, the president blasted the portrait on Truth Social and said it had been “purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before.”
The portrait is coming down, according to legislators’ comments to the Associated Press. State Democratic legislators, who hold the majority in Colorado, gave Republicans permission to remove and replace the likeness.
“If the GOP wants to spend time and money on which portrait of Trump hangs in the Capitol, then that’s up to them,” Colorado House Democrats spokesman Jarrett Freedman said.
Republican Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen requested that the portrait be removed and replaced by one “that depicts his contemporary likeness.”
In his initial comments on the painting, Trump said that “many people from Colorado have called and written to complain” about the “bad” picture of himself.
TRUMP BLASTS ‘PURPOSEFULLY DISTORTED’ PORTRAIT OF HIMSELF IN COLORADO’S CAPITOL
“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 said. “The artist also did President Obama, and he looks wonderful, but the one on me is truly the worst. She must have lost her talent as she got older. In any event, I would much prefer not having a picture than having this one.”
The Washington Examiner reached out to Colorado state Democrats and Republicans for comment.
