(25 Mar 2025)
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Denver – 24 March 2025
1. Various of U.S. President Donald Trump’s portrait in the Colorado State Capitol
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jade Steven, Colorado State Capitol visitor: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3 AND 4++
“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. 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.”
3. Various of people taking photos of the portrait
4. Various of presidential portraits
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) James Seals, Colorado State Capitol visitor: ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 6 TO 8++
“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. 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. 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.”
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Denver – 24 March 2025
6. Various of people looking at wall of portraits
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Denver – 25 March 2025
7. Various of the wall without Trump’s portrait
8. 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.
The move came at the request of Colorado Republicans after Trump claimed the artist had “purposefully distorted” him.
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