During the last four years, the president, like many before him, has been the subject of countless depictions in visual media. For a long time I had felt a hesitancy in portraying him in my work at all, as there were already so many artists doing so and I wasn’t sure how I could render him in away that felt original. If I was going to paint him, I wanted to see if I could paint a side of him that I didn’t see others painting. It was the news of his COVID-19 diagnosis that really crystalized this impulse as I realized I would attempt to paint him in a moment of weakness. The title, “I will never forget this” appropriates a phrase repeated numerous times by the president during one of his recent video addresses recorded from Walter Reed Hospital. The composition of the piece is also loosely inspired by a number of historical depictions of the death of President Abraham Lincoln.