A portrait of Donald Trump is to be removed from the Colorado state capitol after the president called it “truly the worst” attempt to capture his likeness.

Mr Trump lashed out at Sarah Boardman, the British artist who painted the 2018 portrait, on his social media site Truth Social, claiming it had been “purposely distorted” and that she had “lost her talent as she got older”.

Now, the artwork is set to be removed after Republican lawmakers on Monday requested it be taken down and Democrats, who hold a majority in the Colorado legislature, signed off on the decision.

According to Paul Lundeen, the Colorado senate minority leader, the painting is to be replaced by one capturing a “contemporary likeness” of the president.

Jarrett Freedman, the Colorado House Democrats spokesman, said: “If the GOP wants to spend time and money on which portrait of Trump hangs in the capitol, then that’s up to them.”

In his Sunday evening complaint, Mr Trump said “nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves”, but the Colorado portrait was “purposely distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before”.

The artwork depicts the president with a “serious, thoughtful, non-confrontational” expression, Ms Boardman said of her work.