According to the Fascist Felon, Colorado Governor Jared Polis should “be ashamed of himself” for hanging a “purposefully distorted” presidential portrait in the State Capitol building.
*** Note how TFF praises the portrait of a real president, below:
A spokesperson for the governor’s office said that Gov. Polis was “surprised to learn the President of the United States is an aficionado of our Colorado State Capitol and its artwork. … We appreciate the President and everyone’s interest in our capitol building and are always looking for any opportunity to improve our visitor experience.”
Unsurprisingly, TFF is misguided in his targeting of Colorado’s Democratic governor, because it was a Colorado Republican, Kevin Grantham, then-President of the state senate, who had to raise $10,000 through a Go-Fund-Me in 2018 during Trump’s first term to commission the portrait.
Sarah A. Boardman, a British-born artist based in Colorado Springs, was commissioned to paint the portrait. Boardman had also painted the portrait of Barack Obama, after Lawrence Williams, the artist who had painted all 43 previous presidential portraits, died in 2003. Boardman said at the unveiling ceremony that she tried to match the classical realist style of Williams’ paintings and that it took around four months to complete the painting of Trump, which was based on a photograph voted on and approved by the Capitol Building Advisory Committee.
“My portrait of President Trump has been called thoughtful, non-confrontational, not angry, not happy, not tweeting,” Boardman said at the time. “In five, 10, 15, 20 years, he will be another President on the wall who is only historical background, and he needs to look neutral.”
According to Britannica:
The Streisand effect is a phenomenon in which an attempt to censor, hide, or otherwise draw attention away from something only serves to attract more attention to it. The name derives from American singer and actress Barbra Streisand’s lawsuit against a photographer in 2003, which drew attention to the photo she was suing to have taken off the internet.
Time, the Independent
