(25 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver – 24 March 2025
1. Various of portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump in the Colorado State Capitol
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jade Steven, visitor:
“As far as I’m concerned, this portrait is a beautiful portrait. It captures his likeness to an impeccable degree. I think the command of form and light and shape and proportion is fantastic. And I’ll be frank, it looks great.”
3. Various of people taking photos of portraits
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jade Steven, visitor:
“But it is definitely not distasteful, as the president says. I feel like, it’s a pretty egotistical point of view to think this is purposefully ugly. And I know that this piece was approved by the Republican Party of Colorado, so, I mean, it was put in here by people who have shown their support for him. So I don’t really know why he’s reacting this way to such a lifelike painting."
5. Various of presidential portraits
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver – 25 March 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) James Seals, visitor:
“I know I will often look at selfies and pictures that other people take of me and groan, literally groan out loud thinking, ‘oh, do I really look like that?’ I don’t know that, that’s any reason for it to be pulled down."
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Denver – 24 March 2025
7. Various of people looking at portraits
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Denver – 25 March 2025
8. Various of the wall without Trump’s portrait
9. SOUNDBITE (English) James Seals, visitor:
“Well, I think it’s an overly sensitive reaction to the president’s expressed disapproval. I don’t believe in taking things down because one person doesn’t like them, even if it’s a photo of them or a portrait of them."
10. Various of the wall without Trump’s portrait
11. SOUNDBITE (English) James Seals, visitor:
“I just took a photo of it, and I’m titling the photo ‘The Invisible President.’ And people can read into that whatever they want."
12. Various of person walking in front of wall and taking selfie in front of blank space
STORYLINE:
Visitors to Colorado’s Capitol shared their views about a portrait of Donald Trump which has since been removed from the building after the president expressed his dislike of the artwork.
“As far as I’m concerned, this portrait is a beautiful portrait," said Jade Steven, an artist who was visiting the Capitol on Monday.
"It captures his likeness to an impeccable degree. I think the command of form and light and shape and proportion is fantastic. And I’ll be frank, it looks great.”
Another visitor from Michigan, James Seals, said Tuesday he was disappointed the portrait had been taken down.
“I think it’s an overly sensitive reaction to the president’s expressed disapproval,” he said.
"I don’t believe in taking things down because one person doesn’t like them, even if it’s a photo of them or a portrait of them.”
Filling an empty space on the wall of presidential portraits in the building with a new painting of Trump could take time after one he disliked was removed and put into storage.
Legislative leaders from both parties will decide how to replace the painting that Trump derided Sunday night on social media and that by Tuesday morning had been taken down.
When they will meet about a new painting is anyone’s guess.
The Legislature is focused on more pressing matters including the state budget.
Colorado Republicans raised more than $10,000 to commission the Trump painting that had been in the state Capitol since 2019, alongside other U.S. presidents.
He praised the portrait of Barack Obama, painted by the same artist.
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