President Donald Trump’s new White House portrait is fire, according to some critics, and they didn’t mean that in a good way.
Presidential adviser Sebastian Gorka shared the painting Monday on X, formerly Twitter. It shows a heroic- and trim-looking Trump in an overcoat as he walks through a row of American flags with what appears to be a fire behind him.
While the flourish might just be an orange glow, some observers saw flames and roasted the president.
“Fitting that the world around him is on fire,” one person wrote on X.
“So he’s going to burn the USA down and walk away unscathed?” another added.
“The fires of hell are very accurate,” someone else devilishly chimed in.
The work is by Vanessa Horabuena and it’s hanging in in the West Wing between the lower and upper press offices, a White House source told HuffPost on Tuesday.
Gorka wrote that more paintings are on the way.
Trump’s relationship to presidential portraits has been a rocky one. Presumably concerned a prominent White House painting of ex-President Barack Obama would steal his thunder, he had it banished to a restricted area, CNN reported earlier this month.
In March, Trump griped about a fleshier artwork of himself in the Colorado Capitol, saying it was “purposefully distorted.” It was later replaced with a more imposing image of the president.
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