Donald Trump: Secret U.S. War Plans Leaked? Eh, No Big Deal. An Unflattering Painting Of Me Hung On A Wall? HEADS WILL ROLL!

 Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves  -  Donald Trump      

         I suppose there's no arguing with Donald Trump that nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves. But Donald Trump really flipped out - as by now we've come to expect him to do -  in person and on his Truth Social website over what he felt was a bad painting of himself hanging in the Colorado State Capitol: 

     Of course, as we've also come to expect of Donald Trump, his facts are false. It was not Colorado Governor Jared Polis who put the painting of Donald Trump. Nor, as Trump appears to be asserting in his post, was it Governor Polis who put up the portraits of all the other Presidents that hang in the Colorado State Capitol.
       It so happens that inside the Colorado Capitol building there is a collection of presidential portraits known as the Gallery of Presidents.

​       Funding for the paintings comes from private donations collected by a Colorado citizens' group who then commission the paintings. However, after Donald Trump was elected, not a single donation came to the group for a Trump portrait, and by 2018 the space above his name plate was still empty.
     One time a member of a progressive activists' group snuck in a portrait of Vladimir Putin and put it on display beneath the empty spot where a President Trump portrait should have hung.

     The prank embarrassed and angered Republicans and emphasized the fact that Donald Trump was the only President who did not have a portrait hung in the  Colorado Gallery of Presidents. And so Colorado Republican State Senator Kevin Grantham started a GoFundMe to raise the $10,000 needed for a portrait of Trump.
       The Republicans commissioned artist Sarah Boardman, who painted the portrait of Barak Obama that Donald Trump griped looked so much better than his,  

...which, of course, it did.

      But then, an artist can only work with the material she's got, right?
     But here's the thing: that picture of Donald Trump has been hanging in the Colorado State Capitol Gallery of Presidents since 2019. Trump apparently somehow discovered its existence a few days ago. And, according to Kevin Grantham, and contrary to what Trump claims, there have been no complaints about the picture. People are not angry about it. People have other things to worry about in their lives.        It's only Trump who has blown a gasket over his portrait. The same gasket he should have blown when he learned that his Secretary of Defense, National Security Director, Director of National Intelligence, CIA Director, Secretary  of State, and Vice President not only discussed on Signal, an unsecured phone chat app, secret plans for a bombing attack on Yemen that should have been discussed nowhere other than in a person in a secured war room, but that the editor of The Atlantic magazine was included in the chat group.
​       And so now the whole world now gets to see it all, from the misgivings of Trump's military and intelligence team about carrying out the bombing at all, about their fears that the American public wouldn't buy why the bombing was necessary, about its real purpose being to send a message (but not to whom), about how to keep the public distracted by pushing the "Biden failed" message, about how to shake down  Europe and Egypt after the bombing, about how these men, leaders of the strongest, richest country on the planet, congratulated themselves using kicky little emojis after bombing more buildings and killing more people in a tiny, starving, war-torn country that most Americans, if they've even heard of it, have no idea where it was or why we should be bombing it.
          Here are some of the highlights (or rather lowlights) of the chat:

     Did President Donald Trump, so bent out of shape over his portrait in the Colorado Gallery of Presidents, care that his top military and intelligence leaders managed to leak such sensitive material that not only could have sunk his bombing mission and caused the death of American pilots, but has caused an international scandal and made it appear that the United States is being run by a pack of incompetent dunderheads?
       Eh, not really. Initially Trump made a few quips about technology not being perfect, about how good his Director of Intelligence is, about how almost nobody reads The Atlantic, anyway. He even brushed aside the whole incident with a joke, reposting a bon mot from a satiric online site called The Babylon Bee on his Truth Social page (though mayhaps not realizing that The Babylon Bee  is satire):

    But anyway, as for the bad painting of himself, Trump's Republican minions have, of course, already hopped to it to remove it from the  Colorado State Capitol and they are raising money to commission a new painting that will hopefully be pleasing to Donald J. Trump.
​      In a functional Presidential administration the bad painting would be ignored and the bad cabinet removed. But a functional, capable Presidential administration is not what We Most of the People voted for. What they voted for was President Vanity Fair. And now that's what we have.

​References:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/25/us/signal-group-chat-text-annotations.html

https://time.com/7271040/trump-portrait-colorado-state-capitol-polis-grantham-boardman-history-factcheck/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/24/trump-colorado-portrait-polis-capitol/82637703007/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-s-baffling-response-to-group-chat-leak-raises-eyebrows-best-technology/ar-AA1BE66j

https://apnews.com/article/war-plans-trump-hegseth-atlantic-230718a984911dd8663d59edbcb86f2a

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/25/us/signal-group-chat-text-annotations.html

https://apnews.com/article/war-plans-trump-hegseth-atlantic-230718a984911dd8663d59edbcb86f2a

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/no-adult-supervision-concern-escalates-as-trump-increasingly-appears-out-of-touch-opinion/ar-AA1BMEMQ?cvid=6cbf3a98abce4e75b284b42f2533957a&ei=37