Trump Hangs Painting Of Self At Bar With Republican Presidents

Umer Jamshaid Published October 16, 2018 | 12:05 PM

It could be any Republican president's fantasy: hanging out at a bar with fellow conservative American leaders of years, decades, and even centuries past

Washington, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Oct, 2018 ) :It could be any Republican president's fantasy: hanging out at a bar with fellow conservative American leaders of years, decades, and even centuries past.

For President Donald Trump, that fictional "happy hour" exists, in the form of a painting hanging at the White House that caused a huge uproar on social media when it was revealed over the weekend.

The president's critics say the scene is as real as some of the claims Trump made during his interview on "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday where a glimpse of the painting could be seen in the background.

Trump's likeness has been ruthlessly disfigured by "high" and "low" artists alike, who have made no secret of their dislike of the Republican president.

But in "The Republican Club," a painting by Andy Thomas, an uncharacteristically brawny Trump sports an affable, if slightly pinched smile as he is joined by the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Teddy Roosevelt and George W.

Bush.

The whole group is chatting around a table and seems to be having a jolly good time while sharing drinks, apart perhaps for Calvin Coolidge, who hovers in the background a short distance away.

Trump, who does not drink alcohol, appears to be having a soda.

Instead of sitting, Roosevelt has a foot propped up on a chair as he leans in intently, hand on one knee. Gerald Ford is leaning against a pillar. Reagan and Nixon are trading glances, and George H.W. Bush looks on. Eisenhower leans in next to Trump.

The fantasy creation was mercilessly mocked on social media.

One Twitter user wrote: "Neither Lincoln nor Teddy would be caught dead at this table.""Like, you could borrow stuff from the Smithsonian or the National Gallery of Art but, nope, you're gonna decorate the White House with crap from the Things Remembered kiosk at the mall," wrote journalist Benjamin Freed in another comment.