Aikshrees Kanduraja

Then the VIPs come in.

There's the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, Representative Byron Donalds, the bill's sponsor, and there's even a living descendant of Frederick Douglass.

Traditionally, at a press conference like this, the press are there to cover the event, not insert themselves into it.

But Pablo is Pablo.

And when Mike Johnson came in, I showed it to him.

I showed it to Byron Donalds.

He's like, oh, yeah, there.

And that's when Frederick Douglass's grandson was like, that's great.

That's great.

Probably not grandson.

And they kept walking.

So I was like, OK, so Frederick Douglass's grandson is cool with this.

Byron Donalds is cool with this.

Speaker Johnson is cool with this.

He gets a selfie with the lawmakers and his painting.

Everybody loves the painting.

So let's get it hung on the wall officially.

To do that, Pablo just needs the permission of something called the Standing Committee of Correspondence.

These are a group of Pablo's own peers, other working journalists.

So he writes them a letter, donating his painting to the committee and asking that they hang it in the newly named Frederick Douglass Press Gallery.