President Trump’s umbrage at the portrait of himself hanging at the Colorado Capitol may be a choice, but it is hardly novel in the annals of leaders disappointed in their representations. The 47th president turned art critic reckoned that the painter, Sarah Boardman, had “purposefully distorted” his image, which hung alongside other presidents at Denver. The Republicans will seek a new work that captures Mr. Trump’s “contemporary likeness.”

Denver’s Democrats have greeted all this aesthetic angst with a shrug, sniffing in a statement that “If the GOP wants to spend time and money on which portrait of Trump hangs in the Capitol, then that’s up to them.” Mr. Trump, though, is right when he reflects on Truth Social that “nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves” and that this one is “truly the worst.” He even ventures that the artist “must have lost her talent as she got older.”