Donald Trump made waves (of course) on New Year\u2019s Eve when he auctioned off a freshly painted portrait of Jesus Christ for $2.75m. The US President hosted a gala ringing in the new year at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, featuring a charity auction attended by luminaries such as the former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n
In a bid to raise cash for a local children\u2019s hospital, Trump asked the artist Vanessa Horabuena to paint a picture live in front of the assembled revellers. Horabuena tackled the large black canvas with a paintbrush as a band launched into a slow rendition of Hallelujah, reports The Guardian<\/a>. \u201cDraw something really special. I don\u2019t know what it is, but draw something really special,\u201d he said (the result was the rather makeshift Christ which sold to an unnamed couple).<\/p>\n \u201cTo me, she\u2019s one of the greatest\u2026. She can paint, slowly, a beautiful portrait for the White House, or she can paint the most incredible painting in literally 10 minutes,\u201d he said in a video of the event broadcast on Newsmax<\/a>. Trump added that his new year\u2019s resolution was a wish for \u201cpeace on Earth\u201d (welcome to 2026).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump made waves (of course) on New Year\u2019s Eve when he auctioned off a freshly painted portrait…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,67354,1120,5675,141,96,61687,56,54,55,3285],"class_list":["post-348081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-auctions","tag-design","tag-diary","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-jesus-christ","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}