Donald Trump made waves (in fact) on New 12 months’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 12 months at his Mar-a-Lago membership in Palm Seashore, 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 boost money for a neighborhood kids’s hospital, Trump requested the artist Vanessa Horabuena to color an image reside in entrance of the assembled revellers. Horabuena tackled the massive black canvas with a paintbrush as a band launched right into a sluggish rendition of Hallelujah, studies The Guardian. “Draw one thing actually particular. I don’t know what it’s, however draw one thing actually particular,” he stated (the end result was the fairly makeshift Christ which bought to an unnamed couple).
“To me, she’s one of many biggest…. She will paint, slowly, a phenomenal portrait for the White Home, or she will paint probably the most unimaginable portray in actually 10 minutes,” he stated in a video of the occasion broadcast on Newsmax. Trump added that his new 12 months’s decision was a want for “peace on Earth” (welcome to 2026).
