I’m not a Trump fan but I just googled to try to find a statement from Trump. I was actually going to post the same article that @SQUEEKY2 posted. I figured USA Today is an impartial enough source that nobody would dispute it. I could not find, from the sources I looked at after googling ‘Trump Obama portrait,” any negative comments from Trump.
There have been a bunch of nasty comments recently from Trump toward Obama, about Obama as President, so I would think that a meeting of the two men might be chilly and if I were either one, I wouldn’t want to see the other, but that’s politics. Handshakes and smiles when you really can’t stand the other person is the norm.
They did mention that Trump is looking to have Obama testify about the 2016 Russia scandal, and so Obama is not a fan of Trump at this time, as Trump is not a fan of Obama. I saw no negative comments from either Trump or Obama toward each other, directly related to the portrait. They said if Trump is re-elected, there may not be a portrait unveiling until 2025.