Our Empire State Building Drawings Are Way Better Than Donald Trump's $16,000 Sketch, Sorry
PoliticsPage Six is reporting that, for reasons I will never understand, someone just paid $16,000 for a 12-by-9-inch black-and-white sketch of the Empire State Building by budding artist Donald Trump.
Trump originally drew the sketch, pictured above, for a charity auction in 1995. It now belongs to real estate mogul Elie Hirschfeld, who paid $4,000 more than the bidding price in an auction on October 19.
Realizing that she—and indeed any living organism with functioning opposable thumbs—could have scribbled three boxes on a piece of paper and passed it off as expensive art, Jezebel features editor Kelly Stout challenged us to do our own renditions on a whiteboard.