America woke up to yet another interesting weekend, when social media was buzzing with images of a very ‘rare’ kind of painting, procured straight from the walls of the White House.
The painting depicts President Donald Trump hanging out at a bar with fellow conservative American leaders of years, decades and even centuries past.
The fictional “happy hour” image created quite an 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 recently, where a glimpse of the painting could be seen in the background.
Called “The Republican Club,” this painting has been made by Andy Thomas. It shows an image of an uncharacteristically masculine Trump, sporting an affable yet slightly pinched smile. Keeping him company on the table are the who’s who of American political history, like 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 great 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.
Unfortunately, the fantasy painting was mocked and trolled at 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.
Whatever said and done, imagination does run wild sometimes. And in this painting, it definitely does.