Donald Trump’s $2 million renovation of the White House wasn’t as horrific as we all feared. He swapped the Oval Office’s dark red curtains for gold, added a massive chandelier to the dining room and, according to insider Michael Wolff, installed three TVs in his Melania-less bedroom. So far, so Trump.
But nobody knew about his final touch until we watched The Donald walk through the White House during yesterday’s ‘60 Minutes’ interview, where eagle-eyed viewers spotted this painting.
Yep, that’s Donald Trump sharing drinks and yucking it up with 9 of his Republican presidential predecessors, including Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon and Teddy Roosevelt.
“I was ecstatic,” Andy Thomas, the man who painted ‘The Republican Club’ told TIME afterward. “A lot of times gifts aren’t really hung up, they’re just pushed in a closet somewhere. To find out it’s actually hanging is really a treat.”
Trump, who’s looking remarkably slender in the painting, is depicted drinking a diet coke (one of the 12 he has a day, according to reports). George Bush is seemingly the only other designated driver in the picture, and Ronald Reagan looks to be drinking a dirty pint.
He’s basking in the laughter of the table. Perhaps he’s just told one of his famously lucid zingers. Whatever it was, Teddy’s completely lost it. He’s cracking up.
You can only see the back of Lincoln, perhaps in an effort to make Donald the tallest man at the table. There’s a furious man in the far-right corner who we assume is significant in some way, but we can’t bring ourselves to think about the painting too much longer.
