It is not enough for her that she was “publicized” by the public Donald Trumpnow the career is in danger. Sarah Bordman, the painter Behind the US president’s official portrait in Colorado, which he described as “really the worst”, he says the intense negative reactions of viral endangered its 41 -year -old business.
Donald Trump became a front page at the end of last month when, in a post on the Truth Social platform, he expressed his anger And she said that the portrait hanging in the Capitol of the Colorado State – by her hand Zografou Sarah Bordman – had had ‘Deliberately deformed’ While she did not hesitate to ridicule her by saying that she probably lost her talent.
After criticism, officials said the portrait would go down and has been removed ever since.
What seems to have bothered Donald Trump most of all is that the same painter had made the portrait of Barack Obama but “looks great”, as he writes in his long post.
He wrote: “No one likes a bad photo or portrait, but the one in Colorado, placed by the governor, along with all the other presidents, was deliberately distorted on a level that I even may never see before.
The artist also made President Obama, and it looks greatbut the one that happened to me is really the worst. Probably the painter lost her talent as she grew up.
Anyway, I would rather have a table but to have him, but many people from Colorado have called me or wrote me to complain. “
British artist Sarah Bordman, who painted Trump’s portrait, told Sky News that she felt that her “intentions, integrity and abilities” were “called into question” after Trump’s criticism.
Nearly two weeks later, Bordman gave her own answer by saying that Her business has been seriously affected. As he said: “President Trump is entitled to comment freely, as all of us, but the additional claims that ‘I was deliberately distorted’ the portrait and that “I had to lose my talent as I grew up” They are now directly and negatively affecting my business that has been counting for over 41 years, which is now in danger of not recovering. “
He also described how “for the six years when the portrait was hanging on the rotunda of the Capitol building of the State of Colorado, receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews and comments.” “From President Trump’s comments, this has changed for the worse,” he added.
Bordman said that the Capitol Captain of the Colorado Capitol in Denver has commissioned her to paint President Trump’s official portrait for the Presidents’ Gallery in the Capitol of the State in Denver.
“The reference photo and the subsequent ‘works in progress’ were all approved, throughout this process by this committee,” he said.
“I completed the portrait accurately, without ‘deliberate deformation’, political bias or any caricature attempt on the subject, real or implied. I fulfilled my duty according to my contract. “
Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado, in the State Capitol, put up by the Governor, along with all other Presidents, was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before. The artist also did President Obama,… pic.twitter.com/NIUxU4Ybu8
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) March 24, 2025
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Sarah Bordman is a British artist living and working in Colorado Springs with her husband, according to her resume on her personal website.