I find the guy quite talented as an artist. I especially like the small details buried in the background of his crowds.
Too bad he’s batshit insane.
Hah, it was total speculation on my part. 
I thought it looked like New York underwater, after we burn enough coal.
That’s the sad thing – dude does actually have talent. But he wastes it on shit like this.
I disagree. I’m not saying McNaughton has no talent. But he’s basically got technical skills. There are probably ten thousand people in this country who can paint as well as he can.
Here are some examples of his landscapes, so we can judge him without the politics:
Autumn Heights
Blossom Lane
Grandma’s Rocking Chair
Old Watermill
Path to the Ocean
Thunder Canyon
These are not artistic masterpieces. These are the kinds of paintings a skilled hobbyist makes.
You know we already had a thread about this masterpiece:
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=880758
IFF Jesus is under the cloth, Ben Carson might buy one…
There’s something… amateurish about them. Like his understanding of light and shadow is that basically the whole painting is properly exposed (if it was a photograph), and the parts that are lit are floodlit. It’s weird looking.
Maybe it’s a stylistic choice, or a style of painting- I don’t know a whole lot about artistic trends really. But I do know that I’ve seen other works by other painters that don’t have such a weird sort of contrast. Plus, it’s like he’s dialed up the saturation on some parts and down on others as far as the colors go.
There’s just something… off about the landscapes. At least with the indoor paintings, the light/shadow stuff is more normal- that weirdness isn’t what stands out in that godawful Trump painting.
Weird. That one of Obama golfing while the bombs go off…doesn’t even look like Obama. Could be any one of a number of African-Americans with a golf club in their hand. Even the explosion looks cheesy and slap-dash.
But, boiled down, its not some much that I hate his painting, it’s that his painting hates me!
It almost looked to me as though the body looked like Bill Clinton’s or something, oddly enough. Maybe he started doing a Clinton painting, and then changed it to Obama.
Maybe it started out as Clinton in blackface.
Bill Clinton Says ‘I Loved Being Called The First Black President’
All those paintings have slightly skewed perspective. They’re wonky, and they all seem to be sliding a bit to the left. Especially the Watermill one. If I saw one in person I’d probably keep trying to straighten it, but it’s not the way it was hung that’s the problem.
That’s what Trump said.
I’ll see myself out.
Oh lord. I’m not even very good at golf, and I can see that this pose is just completely wrong.
And if an atomic bomb has just gone off behind him, why is his shadow off to the left?!?
It looks like he’s skipping rope, not swinging a club.
And see, it’s a mushroom CLOUD, and clouds block light, so he’s illuminated from the bright sky in the upper-left… 
The OP could have saved the confusion with a better description of what this thread is about in the first place. It’s the OP’s job to set the stage for a discussion rather than to make viewers click links.
When I saw this addition to the canon of American art, I wondered if it was by the same artist who gave us the masterpiece “Trippin’ Balls with the Lord” but apparently, we’re graced with not one but two brilliant painters. Go America!
Not all that skilled. In almost all of them, things like houses are trying to slide off the left side of the canvas.
ETA: I see that carrps beat me to it.
They were probably trying to run away from the brush.
Reminds me of Thomas “Painter of Light” Kinkade, who trademarked his style, pumped out a bunch of ‘base’ paintings and had an army of technically good painters ‘embellish’ them. Only not as good. Which is saying something.
I think he puts more effort into his political paintings as they are vastly better than these things, giving credence to trope that insanity enhances art.