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The artist who sketched the arraignment of former President Donald Trump in Florida last week responded to criticism that he portrayed Trump as younger and more physically fit than reality.
“It’s very rare that I get any kind of feedback,” cartoonist William J. Hennessy Jr., 65, told the Boston Globe.
Hennessy was one of three performers who captured Trump’s performance during his arraignment in federal court in Miami last Tuesday. Trump was indicted on 37 federal charges related to willful withholding of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and false statements. Trump pleaded not guilty and called the charges a “witch hunt”.
The sketches were criticized by some on social media who claimed that Hennessy portrayed Trump as younger than his age of 77 and thinner than reality.
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A sketch of former President Donald Trump in a Miami courtroom by artist William J. Hennessy. (FOX NEWS)
“Is This William J. Hennessy Jr.’s Audition To Create Trump’s Official Whitehouse Portrait?” one Twitter user asked the sketch.
“They made Trump look like ‘Prince of Tides’ Nick Nolte in this sketch,” another Twitter user wrote.
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A sketch of former President Donald Trump in a Miami courtroom by artist William J. Hennessy. (FOX NEWS)
“That last sketch of Trump looks almost exactly like the recent photo of his son Barron,” another wrote.
Hennessy told the Globe that he received a mix of reactions to his sketches, about half being favorable and half criticizing him.
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Courtroom sketch artist William J. Hennessy Jr. attends the defamation trial of Johnny Depp-Amber Heard at Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Virginia on April 21, 2022. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via Reuters)
“Some said he looked too skinny and too young, and some said he looked too good,” Hennessy told the outlet that the negative comments seemed to come from people who “didn’t care much for Trump.”
For Hennessy, he said the day in court in Miami was “quite stressful” but that he drew his sketches as he saw them.
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“I don’t edit,” he said. “I just draw what I see.”
