Painting of Trump with past GOP presidents hung up in White House
A camera shot from President Trump’s interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” reveals the president decorated the White House with a well-known painting of himself drinking with past GOP presidents.
The painting, “The Republican Club” by Andy Thomas, depicts Trump sharing a drink with former Republican presidents, including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln.
Some on social media mocked the painting for being “kitschy” or “tacky.”
oh my god, it’s hanging in the white house pic.twitter.com/wrq8eo7Bvx
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) October 15, 2018
The Daily Beast on Monday reported that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) gave the print to Trump.
{mosads}”[Trump] had actually given a me real gracious call to tell me how much he liked it,” Thomas told The Daily Beast. “He was very complimentary. He made a comment that he’d seen a lot of paintings of himself and he rarely liked them.”
The artist added his presidential paintings are “bipartisan.” He also painted a portrait of Democratic presidents playing pool.
“I challenge people to look at the paintings and see if they can figure it out,” he said.
Thomas has previously said “The Republican Club” has a “a subtle feminist message.”
In the background, there is a shadowy figure of a woman approaching the table. There is also a woman approaching in his painting of Democratic presidents.
“That will be the first Republican female president and the first Democratic female president,” Thomas wrote on his website, according to Slate. “As I was doing the painting, I was thinking that these guys are kind of intimidating in a way. That’s the kind of woman that will be our first woman president; she’ll walk right up to that table.”
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