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Trump's Republican Presidents Painting refers to a painting hanging in the White House of President Donald Trump hanging out with other notable Republican presidents in American history. After the painting was spotted by viewers of an episode of 60 Minutes in which Trump was interviewed, it led to photoshopped parodies.

Origin

On October 14th, 2018, 60 Minutes aired an episode in which they interviewed President Trump about his accomplishments and the allegations against him of coordinating with Russia to help him with the 2016 United States Presidential Election. During the interview, the camera passed over a portrait of Trump socializing with multiple republican presidents in American history, including Richard Nixon, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, and others (shown below).

The painting was identified as "The Republican Club" by Andy Thomas.^[1] It was given to Trump by Republican congressman Darrell Issa (full painting shown below).

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The observation was tweeted by Twitter user Josh Billinson,^[2] gaining over 8,800 retweets and 25,000 likes. After the tweet, multiple Twitter users posted photoshops of the painting. One of the more common photoshops edited the painting to include Vladmir Putin. User @USMCLiberal posted such a photoshop, gaining over 170 retweets and 1,700 likes (shown below, left). User @sincesept1980 also posted such an image (shown below, right).

Other popular edits include a post by @PromoteMyCause which photoshopped in the Plaid Shirt Guy who was allegedly removed from a Trump rally for looking skeptical behind Trump while he was speaking, gaining over 30 retweets and 310 likes (shown below, left). User @SheJStaz posted a photoshop of Trump made to look fatter, gaining 15 retweets and over 200 likes (shown below, right). The photoshops were covered by The Daily Dot.^[3]

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