Donald Trump might be the president of the United States, but when it comes to self-mythologizing paintings, chief strategist Stephen Bannon comes out on top, New York magazine reports. Despite Trump's numerous (and often dubious) portraits, Bannon is evidently the real winner:
Like Trump, Bannon was a businessman and born deal-maker. With experience on Wall Street and in Hollywood, he was nothing if not high energy, a mile-a-minute talker with a volcanic temper who rarely slept and possessed a media metabolism to rival Trump's own. And Bannon, too, had a healthy self-regard. On his office wall hung an oil painting of Bannon dressed as Napoleon in his study at the Tuileries, done in the style of Jacques-Louis David's famous neoclassical painting — a gift from Nigel Farage. [New York]
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