Artistic License

Artistic License1

Anybody who watched Donald Trump’s bonkers interview with 60 Minutes this weekend might have caught a glimpse of a new painting hanging up in the West Wing.  It’s called “the Republican Club” by Andy Thomas, and it features a flattering portrait of Donald Trump having a diet coke with past Republican Presidents like Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.  The thing about that portrait is that I can’t imagine Trump would have gotten along with some of those guys, Lincoln and Roosevelt pretty specifically.  In terms of policy and general philosophy, they weren’t exactly on the same page as Donald Trump.  Roosevelt was all about being hands on!  A man’s man who was a true blue man of the people and hardcore soldier.  He literally ran a company of men called the Rough Riders!  Trump got a doctor’s note to avoid the Draft.  And Lincoln?  He hated war and was a man of great compromise.  Oh, and he also freed the slaves.  Trump is a petulant child and a racist.  So…different strokes, you know?  You can’t really put them in the same category of Republican, much less the same portrait.  But I’ll give credit where credit is due, the artwork itself is well made…so there’s that I guess.

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