A portrait of Donald Trump donated by the White House will hang temporarily on a wall in the Colorado Capitol, replacing a painting commissioned during his first term in office that he called “truly the worst” and “purposefully distorted.”
The decision was made unilaterally Thursday by former state Sen. Lois Court, a Denver Democrat and chair of the Colorado Capitol Building Advisory Committee. The panel oversees historic preservation at the Colorado Capitol.
The donated painting was created by Vanessa Horabuena of Tempe, Arizona. It appears to be a painting of Trump’s official photograph.
The portrait of President Donald Trump that will temporarily hang in the Colorado Capitol. (Handout)“It is currently being framed,” Court said Thursday of the White House painting.
Court said her decision was made in consultation with the two elected members of the committee — Sen. Matt Ball, D-Denver, and Rep. William Lindstedt. But the committee didn’t vote on the decision. Court simply announced it.
She didn’t say for how long the donated portrait would be displayed, but the Colorado Capitol Building Advisory Committee is set to revisit the issue in September.
“In due time, we will have a thorough discussion about all the presidential portraits,” Court said.
The Capitol Building Advisory Committee had been discussing whether to replace the presidential portraits hanging in the building’s third-floor rotunda with paintings of the state’s former governors. The idea was floated at the panel’s meeting last month in response to the controversy earlier this year that followed Trump’s complaints about how he looked in his Colorado Capitol portrait.
The painting was removed in March in response to the president’s griping and there’s currently an awkward blank space in the rotunda above a placard marking Trump’s White House terms.
A blank space on the wall in the presidential portrait gallery in the Colorado Capitol on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, marks the spot where the painting of President Donald Trump once was. The portrait was removed Monday after Trump complained over the weekend that he looked “distorted” in the painting, which was paid for by funds raised by Republicans. (Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun)The portrait, unveiled in August 2019, was paid for by donors after Republicans launched a fundraising campaign. It was painted by Sarah Boardman, who said Trump’s complaints — which began in March — have damaged her career.
Boardman said the situation is “directly and negatively impacting my business of over 41 years, which now is in danger of not recovering.”
This is a developing story that will be updated.
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