Artist Scott LoBaido wowed the crowd of approximately 18,000 people at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Long Island Wednesday night, generating a compelling portrait of the former president in just over three minutes as thunderous music played.
Wait till the end:
🚨Artist and Free Speech activist @ScottLoBaido paints #Live at the NY Trump Rally in Nassau pic.twitter.com/74Uq6rFq4k
— Mark Naughton (@MarkNaughton9) September 18, 2024
Now, it looked to me like the black and white part depicting Trump himself had been painted earlier, and LoBaido unveiled it by pulling off some sort of plastic. That didn’t ruin it for me, though, because it took planning and execution and was a nice reveal, almost like a magic show. The end result was a heck of a lot better than I could do in three hours—much less 180 seconds.
The 59-year-old self-titled “Patriot Artist” is a Staten Island native and…