{"id":32810,"date":"2026-03-13T19:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=32810"},"modified":"2026-03-13T19:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:32:34","slug":"unflattering-tomahawk-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=32810","title":{"rendered":"unflattering Tomahawk Pete…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Court Painter & Tomahawk Pete<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pentagon bans Court Painter over \u2018unflattering\u2019 paintings of Secretary of War-mongering Pete ‘Tomahawk’ Hegseth:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Court Painter, a noted celebrity portraitist, is no longer permitted to paint portraits inside the Pentagon press briefing room after displaying \u201cunflattering\u201d portraits of Secretary of War-mongering Pete ‘Tomahawk’ Hegseth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of Hegseth\u2019s staff reportedly told anyone who would listen that they did not like the way the War-mongering secretary looked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Pentagon spokesperson said in a statement that in order to use the briefing room \u201ceffectively,\u201d Court Painter would be expected to remove his paint kit, easel, smock, and paint rags from the premises and promise not to return. The spokesperson added that past portrait images from the briefings were immediately released online for the public and press to use but no more. If the expulsion hurts Court Painter\u2019s business model, he should consider applying for a Pentagon Hand-Painting Portrait credential\u2014a permit that further requires approval for release from the Secretary of War-mongering Pete ‘Tomahawk’ Hegseth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Court Painter instead left Washington for Edmonton Alberta to catch the opening of John Will: Born in the U.F.O<\/strong> a 60 year retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of Alberta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Court Painter’s recent Tomahawk Pete series<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Court Painter & Tomahawk Pete Pentagon bans Court Painter over \u2018unflattering\u2019 paintings of Secretary of War-mongering Pete ‘Tomahawk’ Hegseth: Court Painter, a noted celebrity portraitist, is no longer permitted to paint portraits inside the Pentagon press briefing room after displaying \u201cunflattering\u201d portraits of Secretary of War-mongering Pete ‘Tomahawk’ Hegseth. Members of Hegseth\u2019s staff reportedly told … Continue reading “unflattering Tomahawk Pete…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32810"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32838,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32810\/revisions\/32838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}