Discussion: Trump Signs Bill That Bars Federal Gov't From Paying For Oil Paintings

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Now they may only be coal paintings…

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Trump’s painting will be in crayon

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Thankfully, this change makes up for $1.5 trillion in tax cuts for rich people, and … it will result in a balanced budget!

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Well good, now we’ll never have an IQ45 portrait.

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There needed to be a law for this? GOP Congress - wow - thank goodness you nipped this in the bud. ~eyes rolling.~

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In lieu of the Federal Gov’t no longer buying oil paintings, I propose that we have an art contest by judging the graffiti that will be sprayed along Trump’s Border Wall…

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Cassidy’s point is that oil paintings made sense when the subjects were white people. The Founding Fathers never envisioned that taxpayers would pay artists for painting pictures of black people…

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Are Polaroids OK?

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See, the Trump administration is tough on oil.

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Solving the National Debt one portrait at a time!

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I mean, at this point I’m simply assuming that the universe is just f*cking with all of us…

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Acrylics? Watercolors? Monkey feces?

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Hannity probably had a segment alleging the Department of Interior paid $3,000,000 for Obama’s portrait and down the rabbit hole Trump went.

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But acrylic or watercolor portraits are still OK, right?

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Good to know that Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) is passionate about this issue. One wonders what other issues he’s passionate about.

On second thought, I don’t really want to know.

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You know, they say that George Washington was such a publicity hound he never missed an oil-painting opportunity.

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Thank God this will not prevent the construction of a Trump monument, with a 30 foot gold statue of Trump, that he will undoubtedly feel entitled to.

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As far as we can see, why yes.

I’m sure that asshole trump thought this would get rid of the Obama’s portraits, but, sadly, NO!

Suck on that, Donnie boy!

Jeebus, there’s got to be a way to flush ALL of these republicans away, isn’t there? Lambs blood on doorways for us but not for them? Something?

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I was thinking more painting on velvet. Barron could fill in the colors during his vacations.

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