Art knows no bounds. That’s the only possible explanation for the reality-bending fantasy painting of President Donald Trump that now hangs in the White House, right?
The Andy Thomas painting, titled “The Republican Club,” features Trump and several former Republican presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, and Teddy Roosevelt, chatting around a table.
It was seen hanging on a wall of the White House in Trump’s 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday and was mercilessly mocked online afterwards.
In the painting, Trump is seen sitting alongside Eisenhower, Nixon, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Ford, Reagan, and the Bushes. And yes, he is presumably drinking a Diet Coke. It’s a lot.
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
— Benjamin Freed (@brfreed) October 15, 2018
The painting reportedly made its way to the White House after California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa showed it to the president, according to Time. Trump apparently loved the painting so much that he called Thomas to tell him.
While many were busy mocking Trump’s intense admiration of the fantasy painting, some took note of a blurry-faced woman who appears in the background of this image and “The Democratic Club,” a similar painting by Thomas that features Obama seated with Democratic presidents. It turns out the woman was included intentionally to represent a potential future female president.
“That will be the first Republican female president and the first Democratic female president,” Thomas told Time. “As I was doing the painting, I was thinking that these guys are kind of intimidating in a way. That’s the kind of woman that will be our first woman president; she’ll walk right up to that table.”
Very important subtweet.
Note the artist, Andy Thomas, includes a nod to the first female President. The historic juxtaposition of Trump thinking it connotes his power in the midst of a national conversation re Kavanaugh and #MeToo is simply remarkable.https://t.co/AqRD7eZGPV https://t.co/MCh5mAQkvH
— David Jolly (@DavidJollyFL) October 15, 2018
Thomas specializes in this style of painting — he’s made multiple versions featuring past presidents. And we all know how much Trump loves aspirational imagery, as evidenced by that fake Time cover that hung in several of his golf courses.
When an incredible Trump was added to the serie of hilarious paintings of GOP and Democratic Presidents by Andy Thomas it was hung in the White House. Watch the woman president approching.#art pic.twitter.com/8VY2wEGq9m
— Eugène Franken (@yourPythagoras) October 15, 2018
Those on Twitter who weren’t admiring the painting took the time to notice some other details seen in the 60 Minutes interview, like Trump’s TV remote and massive jar of Starburst candies.
The painting is insane but also: all that talk about Trump’s “super TiVo” and but that appears to be a bog-standard $7 DirecTV remote https://t.co/kusrx82jN0
— nilay patel (@reckless) October 15, 2018
This has been an extremely telling episode 60 Minutes. Woof!
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