Come on, people. Who wouldn't want to pay $20000 for a giant picture of Trump painted in 7 minutes?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

What's wrong with all of you?

http://qz.com/779900/melania-trump-bid-20000-on-a-massive-painting-of-donald-trump-and-the-donald-j-trump-foundation-paid-for-it/

The setting is Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s palatial Florida estate, where a children’s charity was holding a benefit on a balmy evening in 2007. The big show that night Michael Israel, a “speed painter” who generates huge portraits in less than seven minutes. His subject, naturally, was Trump. After Israel finished his six-foot-tall portrait, the work would be auctioned.

When it came time to bid on the mammoth Trump picture, Melania, Trump’s wife, opened with $10,000. When no one else bid, the auctioneer urged her to double her bid, saying her participation had driven out would-be bidders. Melania complied, winning her husband’s speedily painted image for a cool $20,000.

But neither Trump nor Melania paid that $20,000 bill. The Trump Foundation did, reports the Post. Based on the recounting of the bidding, it seems Melania had no choice but to enter the auction. Otherwise the lack of bids would’ve humiliated Trump, and we know Trump does not countenance humiliation well.

[saltpoint]

1. The 7 minutes it took to paint that portrait

is more time than Trump himself has dedicated to a grasp of policy during this campaign.

Agree -- all of us would just love to have a 7-minute portrait of Donald Trump and would be rabidly willing to shell out 20 thousand smackers for it. No argument there.

Once in a while you drive around the country and see those huge rug paintings of Elvis for sale at intersections. Shouldn't there be giant rug paintings of Trump as well? If we're going to spring for the giant portrait, wouldn't we need a rug painting to go with it? Set and setting are everything, people.

[MineralMan]

2. If it's not on black velvet, I don't want it.

Not for any price.

[longship]

3. Using orange crayon? nt