Lujan Grisham joins Trump in denouncing portraits

It was a quiet day at the Colorado Capitol—until the portraits started beefing.

In a move that turned more heads than a rotating lobbyist door, the Governor issued a formal statement supporting President Trump’s request to have his life-like portrait removed from the building. Why? Because right next to it, Colorado’s Governor had hung a portrait of none other than New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, and apparently, that pairing didn’t sit well with the Mar-a-Lago art advisory board.

While no brushstrokes were harmed in the process, the political paint certainly flew.

According to anonymous sources (and one loud guy on Twitter), Trump reportedly felt that the juxtaposition of his image with Governor Grisham’s was “a disrespectful pairing”, though others would call it “just democracy in oil-based acrylic.” Meanwhile, Governor Grisham’s team has remained tight-lipped, possibly prepping her own gallery of “Portraits I’ve Been Placed Next To Without Consent.”

Critics are split—some argue this is a distraction from actual policy work, while others wonder if this is secretly just an elaborate attempt to launch a Capitol-based art reality show. "Portrait Wars: Executive Edition", anyone?

Regardless of how the brushes fall, it’s clear that when governors get involved in interior decoration, it becomes a full-blown political statement. And honestly, the walls of the Capitol have never had so much tea to spill.