Donald Trump made waves (after all) on New Yr’s Eve when he auctioned off a freshly painted portrait of Jesus Christ for $2.75m. The US President hosted a gala ringing within the new yr at his Mar-a-Lago membership in Palm Seaside, Florida, that includes a charity public sale attended by luminaries resembling the previous New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In a bid to lift money for a neighborhood kids’s hospital, Trump requested the artist Vanessa Horabuena to color an image stay in entrance of the assembled revellers. Horabuena tackled the big black canvas with a paintbrush as a band launched right into a sluggish rendition of Hallelujah, experiences The Guardian. “Draw one thing actually particular. I don’t know what it’s, however draw one thing actually particular,” he mentioned (the consequence was the moderately makeshift Christ which bought to an unnamed couple).
“To me, she’s one of many biggest…. She will be able to paint, slowly, a stupendous portrait for the White Home, or she will be able to paint essentially the most unbelievable portray in actually 10 minutes,” he mentioned in a video of the occasion broadcast on Newsmax. Trump added that his new yr’s decision was a want for “peace on Earth” (welcome to 2026).
