Donald Trump Jr. has been left less than impressed with a courtroom sketch made of him while he was defending himself in New York this week.The son of the former President Donald Trump is a co-defendant in a trial initiated by New York Attorney General Letitia James. He is accused of fraudulently inflating the value of assets to secure advantageous loans and insurance deals.James is pursuing a minimum of $250 million in damages and a lifelong prohibition on Trump and his sons from conducting business in the state of New York.During the trial this week, Trump Jr. testified that he was not involved in the accounting that went into the financial statements, describing that as the work of the company’s accountants. Trump Jr. and his younger brother Eric run the Trump Organization as executive vice-presidents. They have denied falsifying business records and insurance fraud, as has their father, the owner.Newsweek has contacted the Trump Organization via email for comment.Trump Jr. posted one of the sketches on Instagram, along with the caption: “Follow up to yesterday’s post. WTF [What the f***] Fat slob SBF [Sam Bankman-Fried, convicted fraudster and former cryptocurrency entrepreneur] gets to look like a superhero Zac Efron and I look Kermit the fricken frog in our courtroom drawings… It ain’t right.”Trump Jr. had requested that courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg, who was on assignment for Reuters, “make me look sexy,” according to The Washington Post.He said in an Instagram post on Thursday regarding a Daily Mail story about him requesting he be depicted in a flattering way: “Not gonna lie… 100% a true story. Sketch artist was great. Made a joke with her yesterday before then I saw the SBF sketch last night. On my way out today I said make me look sexy like that (literally showed her the screenshot on my phone) because that fat slob looks like a superhero. If you can’t have some fun, even in the midst of an insane persecution from a radical sociopath attorney general, when can you have fun?”The image Trump Jr. is referring to is an AI-generated image made to look like a courtroom sketch of Sam Bankman-Fried. Rosenberg has previously sketched the cryptocurrency exchange founder but said the image referred to by Trump Jr. is not hers.Rosenberg said of the fake image, per The Washington Post: “It’s not Bankman-Fried. It’s not his nose. It’s not his face. It’s not anything. You know that AI doesn’t work in courtroom art.”Rosenberg has previously drawn Bankman-Fried during his trial where he was convicted on two counts of wire fraud, four counts of conspiracy to commit fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.Rosenberg has also drawn Trump Jr.’s father. During his arraignment in April, facing 34 counts related to 2016 hush-money payments, over which Donald Trump denies any wrongdoing, Rosenberg drew sketches that captured Trump’s visible anger. These were the first-ever criminal charges against a former U.S. president. The sketch gained widespread attention and was even used on the cover of The New Yorker magazine.
Donald Trump Jr. Isn’t Happy About His Court Sketch
