[NYPOST] The artist behind a portrait of Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... in the Colorado State Capitol says her career could be in tatters now that the president has besmirched it on social media.
Sarah Boardman's painting of the president had hung in the Denver building for six years before Trump called it ''purposefully distorted'' and ''truly the worst'' on his Truth Social platform in January, prompting state politicians to yank it off the wall.
Now the artist's 41-year career ''is in danger of not recovering'' from the backlash, Boardman said in a statement on her website on Saturday.
Image of the thing at the link. It isn’t a faithful likeness, I fear. The question is whether President Trump was being kind when he said it was purposefully distorted — the alternative being that she actually thought she nailed it...
''For the 6 years that the portrait hung in the Colorado State Capitol Building Rotunda, I received overwhelmingly positive reviews and feedback,'' Boardman said.
People generally won’t tell an artist they don’t like her work — it feels mean. That’s why there are paid critics, universally hated for their clever viciousness.
''Since President Trump's comments, that has changed for the worst.''
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04/07/2025 00:00 ||
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"If it's not the consequences of my own actions!"
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A presidential portrait should look presidential. That one don't. First impression is high school art class or the artists feelings leaked into her work. Given Colorado's politics, that fact that the pic hung in the capitol is more condemnation than accolade.
Q: Has the girl doomed her career or established her brand? I predict a great demand for pouty Trump pix in the coming years so we may be looking at a golden age of bad portraiture.
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Oh lord ... I shouldn't have looked at that thing. High School level work, indeed! And no one said a word for six years, eh? Colorado is in worse shape than I thought.
Posted by: Chicago Lurker ||
04/07/2025 9:43 Comments ||
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It looks like a purposefully distorted image done by a mediocre artist.
[GEO.TV] More than 50 nations have reached out to the White House to begin trade talks since US President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... rolled out sweeping new tariffs, brass hats said on Sunday as they defended levies that wiped out nearly $6 trillion in value from US stocks last week and downplayed economic fallout.
On Sunday morning talk shows, Trump's top economic advisers sought to portray the tariffs as a savvy repositioning of the US in the global trade order. They also tried to minimise the economic fallout from last week's tumultuous rollout, ahead of Monday's expected bumpy opening of Asian stock markets.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said more than 50 nations had started negotiations with the US since last Wednesday's announcement, putting Trump in a position of power.
Neither Bessent nor the other officials named the countries or offered details about the talks. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... holding simultaneous negotiations with so many countries at once could potentially pose a huge logistical challenge for the Trump administration. It is not clear how long such talks would last.
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on Sunday offered zero tariffs as the basis for talks with the US, pledging to remove trade barriers and saying Taiwanese companies will raise their US investments.
"He's created maximum leverage for himself," Bessent said on NBC News' 'Meet the Press.'
Posted by: Fred ||
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The rest of the world has had their industry and economy subsidized by the U.S. for too long. Time for us to get payed for our de facto loans (high tariffs in other countries, low ones or nonexistent ones here.
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The EU caved, eh? Let's call it "got reasonable", "caved" is a bit gloaty. And here I was assured by my betters that Trump's chaotic behavior was going to wreck the world economy. Ah, well.
I do like how quickly it all went from running around screaming with hair afire to "Let's make a deal!".
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Far-left ''Face the Nation'' Host Margaret Brennan, who infamously became a meme in January after getting humiliated by Vice-President JD Vance, face-planted once again on Sunday after trying to mock the Trump Administration on international trade.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... announced on Wednesday the implementation of a 10% baseline tariff on all imports, effective April 5, 2025. The worst offenders will be hit with even tougher measures on April 9.
Speaking from the White House Rose Garden, President Trump proclaimed April 2 as ''Liberation Day,'' marking a new era of economic independence. He emphasized that this measure is essential to protect American jobs and revitalize domestic manufacturing.
The White House also released a detailed chart showing how badly many countries have been ripping off American workers, charging high tariffs on U.S. goods while benefiting from America's generosity in return.
Brennan brought on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to supposedly discuss his thoughts on the tariffs, mainly how they calculated how much each country would face in reciprocal tariffs. But she instead tried to embarrass him with an asinine accusation instead.
''When we saw the President in the Rose Garden holding up that chart you helped make, that wasn't actually tariffs,'' she said. ''That was actually confusing to investors because it was some kind of formula, and the countries themselves seemed kind of random.''
''Why are the Heard Island and McDonald Islands, which don't export to the United States—Why do they face a 10% tariff? Did you use AI to generate this?'' She asked.
Artificial intelligence? Does she seriously think an administration full of incredibly successful businessmen like Trump and Lutnick is that careless?
Lutnick laughed off Brennan's silly remark and gave her a valuable economic lesson.
''No!'' Lutnick said. ''The idea is—If you leave anything off the list, the countries that try to basically arbitrage America go through those countries to us.''
''The president put tariffs on China in 2018, and what China started doing is they started going through other countries to America,'' he added. ''They just (passed products) through other countries to America.''
Lutnick added that Trump was fed up with this loophole and knew exactly what must be done to solve the cheating.
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Sure. We know that penguins are cheating bastards. They even wear suits to fool you.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
04/07/2025 6:31 Comments ||
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We're not talking trade. We're talking unemployment. This is Wall Street vs Main Street. We've been importing unemployment since the 90s. Times are a changing.
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"By 1933, the U.S. unemployment rate had risen to 25%, about one-third of farmers had lost their land, and 9,000 of its 25,000 banks had gone out of business. President Herbert Hoover was unwilling to intervene heavily in the economy, and in 1930 he signed the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, which worsened the Depression."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
Current unemployment in the U.S. is 4.2%. Tariffs won't bring back employment. They'll bring back recession.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
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Sorry, EC those are faux government numbers on today's unemployment. They do not use the same metrics today they used back in the 30s. Not employed for 'x' number of months, you are no longer counted.
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EC, as I’m sure you are aware, Europe needs to get its own house in order. Your country is a mess after years of insane energy policies and the importation of third world migrants. No need to focus on old Uncle Sugar.
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When Hoover signed Smoot Hawley, the US had both a foreign trade surplus - the opposite of today - and many products were being over produced in numbers not justified by the market. Smoot Hawley had a negative effect on the US economy, because so much of the US production went overseas, and foreign nations raised reciprocal tariffs. The US problem now is underproduction and a trade deficit. The point of tariff is to make US production viable again.
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