The story of the portrait is a high point (of lowness) for me. Fake bidder. Hiked up price. Paid for by foundation. Twitter boast. It’s got it all.
Michael Cohen claims that President Donald Trump had him find a fake bidder to buy a portrait of him at a 2013 charity auction in the Hamptons so it would sell higher than everything else, and then paid the buyer back with Trump Foundation funds.
As one does, you know.
“The objective was to ensure that his portrait, which was going to be auctioned last, would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon,” Cohen said.
So that people would think he’s a hot item.
Just found out that at a charity auction of celebrity portraits in E. Hampton, my portrait by artist William Quigley topped list at $60K
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2013
Feast your eyes.
He got the hair right; it still sits there like a rug.
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That portrait is best viewed from a distance…and facing away from it.
AoS, sort of like Trump himself.
At least the portrait is mercifully silent. I can only stand so much wanton slaughter of poor, innocent phonemes whenever he opens his mouth to push words off the end of his tongue.
Always working on the next con, that one. The one thing he’s actually good at.
Wouldn’t he need two fake bidders to guarantee a high price?
@AoS #1, @Iknklast #2 – sorry, you’ve inspired me to liken Donnie Twoscoops to the HHGTTG rock band “Disaster Area” (which would be a great name for Trump’s post-Presidential white-supremacist-punk-thrash-metal band btw):
“Donald Trump was a President from the USA, Earth and was generally regarded as not only the worst human being in the Galaxy, but also as being the worst thing of any kind at all. Regular people judged that the best life balance was usually to be found from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles away from his twitter feed, whilst the president himself tweeted by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stayed in orbit around the planet – or more frequently around a completely different planet.”
(Source: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Disaster_Area )
Liar and cheater. As usual.
@Graham Douglas:
No, it’s more horrifying than that. He’d just need someone else in the audience who actually did want to buy it.
Think about that. Unless Trump actually did have two stooges in the audience (which he might well have had), someone actual real person actually wanted that thing in their house. W-where do you imagine they were planning to hang it? Because I think we all know it was going to hang opposite the bidder’s bed.
How big is it?
Yuge I’m guessoing. A little big for an outhouse maybe, but it’ll fit if you dig a little deeper.
wall-sized.