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underpants

(194,611 posts)
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 08:16 AM Aug 2025

Not sure which is worse - this new "portrait" or that Sebastion Gorka is "Deputy Assistant to the President "

I didn’t know Gorka had slimed his way back into the White House.

A new, “orange” portrait of President Donald Trump appears to be the latest in a run of paintings hanging in the White House, with a senior aide teasing there’s “more to come.”

Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka unveiled the artwork just hours after Trump hosted leaders from across Europe in hopes of finding a path to peace in Ukraine.

The White House told The Independent that artist Vanessa Horabuena was behind the painting, which is hanging in the West Wing between Lower and Upper Press Offices.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-portrait-orange-white-house-b2810100.html


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Not sure which is worse - this new "portrait" or that Sebastion Gorka is "Deputy Assistant to the President " (Original Post) underpants Aug 2025 OP
Yeah it explains some of the thngs happening. Also: SSJVegeta Aug 2025 #1
Way to make a trench coat look dorky. haele Aug 2025 #2
The portrait feels truthful. usedtobedemgurl Aug 2025 #3
It depicts Trump as Satan, coming straight from the flames of hell and into America. sop Aug 2025 #5
Deport Gorka Kid Berwyn Aug 2025 #4
That needs a NSFW JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #6
Only trump or his admirers could call that a flattering image. (nt) Paladin Aug 2025 #7
The fact that our president is constantly miserable and angry, does not reflect well on the country Walleye Aug 2025 #8
Strong. Tough guy. 🙄 underpants Aug 2025 #9
Stupid tough guy Walleye Aug 2025 #10
He looks short? newdeal2 Aug 2025 #11
Notice they hid his tiny hands. TommyT139 Aug 2025 #12
And his lard ass and huge gut. llmart Aug 2025 #13
. dalton99a Aug 2025 #14
That portrait is exactly like the hagiographic "art" by hacks like... keep_left Aug 2025 #15
So much creepiness all around es466 Aug 2025 #16
Looks like clansmen dressed in the American flag. chowder66 Aug 2025 #17

haele

(15,034 posts)
2. Way to make a trench coat look dorky.
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 08:24 AM
Aug 2025

Is it AI and a massive silk-screen printer, or did someone actually sit in front of an easel and apply acrylic to canvas?
It's really sepia.
And Seb Gorka? I thought he has a warrant outstanding and couldn't get back into the US or something like that. Or was that some other wanna-be mobster White Nationalist grifter?

usedtobedemgurl

(1,924 posts)
3. The portrait feels truthful.
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 08:24 AM
Aug 2025

He is trying to burn down our democracy and walk away. All that fire and the I-do-not-care look on his face. I think it represents what us truly happening.

Kid Berwyn

(22,730 posts)
4. Deport Gorka
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 08:34 AM
Aug 2025
Senators Call for Investigation of Sebastian Gorka After Reports Surface of Ties to Neo-Nazi Group

Failure to disclose membership in Hungarian anti-Semitic organization could invalidate Dr. Gorka’s U.S. immigration status


WASHINGTON (March 17, 2017)—U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Ben Cardin (D-MD) today called on the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice to investigate whether senior White House counterterrorism advisor Dr. Sebastian Gorka falsified his U.S. naturalization application by failing to disclose his membership in a Hungarian neo-Nazi organization.

According to the Forward, leaders of the Historical Vitézi Rend have identified Dr. Gorka as a member of the organization who took a “lifelong oath of loyalty.”

“We note that this Administration has expressed a special interest in ensuring that those with extremist views do not exploit our immigration laws,” the senators wrote. “We are deeply concerned by reports that Dr. Gorka concealed the material fact of his membership in the Vitézi Rend, a far-right anti-Semitic Hungarian organization, when he applied for U.S. citizenship.”

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https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senators-call-for-investigation-of-sebastian-gorka-after-reports-surface-of-ties-to-neo-nazi-group

Walleye

(43,711 posts)
8. The fact that our president is constantly miserable and angry, does not reflect well on the country
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 08:44 AM
Aug 2025

newdeal2

(4,701 posts)
11. He looks short?
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 09:44 AM
Aug 2025

Something about the proportions makes him seem that way to me.

Also his rotting sour face as he descends into hell is fitting.

Let’s call this one “American Carnage”

keep_left

(3,143 posts)
15. That portrait is exactly like the hagiographic "art" by hacks like...
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 11:29 AM
Aug 2025

...Jon McNaughton and Ben Garrison. Their portrayals of the President can only be described as the "Trump fantasy physique": 30 years younger and 100 pounds lighter.

https://democraticunderground.com/100220573690#post34

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