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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBUSTED! Behind the scenes photo of Trump's inaug speech photo:
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Just sit here at the jewelry store receptionist's desk and look 'presidential' while we snap a pic of you scribbling on a piece of paper.
They will LOVE it!
Update -- Chris Hayes covered this staged hilarity tonight. Here's the video (2:22 min):
https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/821899607055577088
herding cats
(19,564 posts)That's... embarrassing.
forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)And set all those books on the floor. Yeah, and the monitor too. Did we get that eagle statue? Good. I want people to know that eagle in that meme gif didn't faze me one bit. Yeah, Chrissie, just put it all over there. You're doing a wonderful job. Yuge. Now should I look at this blank notebook, or should I gaze out like I'm contemplating America? Right? Yeah, that."
ornotna
(10,801 posts)Not because you'll copy, but so you won't see how stupid he really is.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)I'm doing a lot of sighing today.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)And the photo complete with eagle(!) looks very staged, but that does appear to be the pretty kick ass tile work at Mar a Lago. No wonder others use it as backdrops.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)So not sure who wrote the speech but we can be certain it was not him.
Baitball Blogger
(46,714 posts)I think "Blank Pages" should be considered.
madokie
(51,076 posts)dumb ass
Doitnow
(1,103 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)much too painful for some of us to start calling this asshole that
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)Peace
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)I wouldn't want to imply that he's educatable.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)Just a thought . . .
JHB
(37,160 posts)Jack, to his friends.
NBachers
(17,110 posts)tblue37
(65,358 posts)sfwriter
(3,032 posts)Manos de bebé?
TheBlackAdder
(28,201 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)He lied.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)What did he do. Which is real?
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Is ANYTHING real anymore, for that mater?
orleans
(34,051 posts)watch Chris Hayes video link
liberalla
(9,248 posts)he doesn't look real/alive... weird.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)it really does look like a wax figure.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)hunter
(38,313 posts)Quite a few high school senior yearbook photos come out looking waxy these days because there's not enough skilled touch-up artists to handle the demand. Removing acne (or wrinkles or double chins) isn't an easily automated process.
This photo is just another example of Trump doing things cheap.
His entire presidency will be particle board that melts in the first rain.
liberalla
(9,248 posts)great analogy!
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)The vase, or whatever, was still on the little alcove shelf behind the desk too!
malaise
(269,004 posts)he really is completely fake
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)as he PRETENDS to write something.
It's the same object that's behind the woman on the little shelf..
malaise
(269,004 posts)What an ass
LeftInTX
(25,337 posts)I actually loved the tiles much to the dismay of others on DU. (Popular in Mexican decor)
But to actually photoshop this? WTF????
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)Trump and his team probably just told the employee to "move this stuff off your desk, toots" for the picture.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)They took the picture at a jewelry store.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)I assumed that place might have a small jewelry store inside it or something, but was the picture taken outside of Mar-a-Lago entirely?!
Now I'm laughing even more!
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)I have edited the post like 6x so far and am still not getting that point across.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)I think my brain didn't allow the full brunt of it to sink in at first!
underpants
(182,806 posts)Are not in the one from the jewelry store. Is there a drape/curtain in the jewelry shop one?
They replaced the furniture and hung a picture that's clear.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)that's on the left side of the woman (her right).
The tiles closest to the tiles with letters don't look the same, though. I'm not sure what I'm looking at there.
EDIT: I had to magnify the top picture a lot to see the tiles in question. They're mostly hidden by the furniture and the shadow from it.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)The one of him is straight on.
her photo is more from the camera's right so the PVSL, or whatever, tiles are hidden behind the corner of the tiles that stand forward of the back wall/..
make sense?
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)See post #46.
If so, it's not as hilarious to me anymore.
I enjoyed the hard laughter while it lasted, though!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)What the hell is the point of this stupidity?
canetoad
(17,160 posts)Or Plus Ultra which means 'Further Beyond' and is on the coat of arms of Spain.
underpants
(182,806 posts)I looked that up earlier today but still wasn't sure I got it right. Thanks.
snpsmom
(678 posts)from ne plus ultra, meaning the ultimate. But what do I know.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)The last few days have been surreal.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)It's not some private area there, but a rental room with a pretty backdrop for pics.
They had the Palm Beach Jewelry Antiques Design Show there, which is where that pic was taken.
https://www.instagram.com/p/-7idBWFZyy/?taken-by=palmbeachshowgroup
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A big thank you to the Mar-a-Lago Club for supporting the Palm Beach Jewelry Antiques Design Show! #PBFallShow #maralago #palmbeach #jewelry #art #antiques
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Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)coco22
(1,258 posts)He looks very Presidential
He looks very Embalmed
Docreed2003
(16,859 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,312 posts)Must have writer's block.
If he wanted to look like he was further along, you'd think he'd at least have flipped a couple of pages.
TeamPooka
(24,226 posts)and then he walks out his the decorated desk with a fake mic and they take the picture.
His handlers set up the desk in the lobby the girl usually sits at with a blank pad and a pen and tell him they ready
Click flash done.
Trump is now free to go play outside for the rest of the day.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)WhiteTara
(29,715 posts)He uses SS as an inducement to rent one of his apartments at dumpy tower, so we'll pay through the nose for all his crappy shit.
Denzil_DC
(7,241 posts)as a "Winter White House", but none of the presidents at the time wanted to use it, so it was sold - to Trump. Not clear whether he's trying to revive that title seriously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago#History
Liberal In Texas
(13,553 posts)... and one of his handlers tells him that he needs a pic of him slaving over his speech.
"Get that stuff off the desk and give me a pad of paper and a pen!" "Here put that eagle thing over here, it looks patriot like!"
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)What the hell is going on here??
Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)No taste in that guy whatsoever!
Fake trappings of wealth. Fake wealth.
madaboutharry
(40,211 posts)at his fake ranch in Crawford and how they made all the reporters stand in front of it?
What is wrong with these people?
phylny
(8,380 posts)There was a LOT of brush to clear during that time. Like - a LOT.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Look especially tiny in this photo
LonePirate
(13,424 posts)The deplorables have doctored photos or attached false stories to photos so frequently that they deserve to see proof of Putin's Puppet lying to the entire world.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,553 posts)Same over-the-top gaudy wall treatments. I think the desk is in some high traffic area where they allowed this jewelry/antique company to set up to give out brochures to the guests/members for a show that they're going to put on next month at the convention center.
https://www.instagram.com/p/-7idBWFZyy/
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)a special "show" that happened in that area.
I still appreciate the belly laughs from it!
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)The fact that these pictures exist just summarizes his whole phony semi literate sham of an existence.
Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)The fucking eagle on the desk is most likely his addition. The tiles are vintage collected by some wealthy person in the 1800's and date back to even earlier. This entire post/thread is embarrassing and should be deleted.
nolabear
(41,963 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what everyone in the country can do for me!"
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)like he did with Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention, then you've done something.
paleotn
(17,917 posts)...He certainly doesn't speak in complete, grammatically correct sentences and his train of thought is nearly impossible to follow. His speech patterns consist of a bunch of disconnected phrases that are all over the place. He's got the same word salad brain polar bear barbie is cursed with. Maybe their Broca's areas aren't completely formed or were damaged somehow. Drop on their heads as children maybe?
kjones
(1,053 posts)Heheh...
Perseus
(4,341 posts)Its hard to believe that a human being can be that pathetic, just watch his face as he looks at the camera. I sometimes think that maybe he is incredibly intelligent and just screwing with the World, just laughing his butt off because he not only has everyone freaked out, but doing whatever he wants and no one seems to have the balls to stop him or stop being politically correct to call him off with firm resolve...Only people in DU and other sites like this have the balls to call him off, but how far does that go?
tblue37
(65,358 posts)If it were a notebook with a more stable, solid backing, maybe, though it would still be awkward. But the backing on a legal pad is too flimsy to make it plausible to write on it while holding it like that.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)Because NOBODY writes a speech with a Sharpie pen.
That's who.
TygrBright
(20,760 posts)angrychair
(8,699 posts)Hate to be the Party pooper but those are not the same tiles in those two pictures. The patterns in the tiles are similar but very different. Zoom up on each section, they are not the same.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)There are 2 desks in the photo they showed -- the one with the eagle is next to the one with the lamp, and the tile work is slightly different behind them.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)I love it! A phone baloney staged pic exposed for just that.
Like I said in post #1, how embarrassing.
underpants
(182,806 posts)I had questions too up thread. The lighting and angles are slightly different.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)In the side-by-side comparison you can see how professional the lighting was and/or how many filters were used on his pic!
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
tclambert
(11,086 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)with an empty tablet, and he really hates being told what to do - because he's a miserable POS with the attention span of a 4 year-old that just guzzled Mommy's espresso.
0rganism
(23,954 posts)unless he's just trying to lie so much about everything that it just seems like more of the same when he lies about important things
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Our slogan for 2018 better be "Make America Dignified Again".
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)since the campaign already announced that he has appointed Stephen Miller to write his inaugural address (it was even reported in Breitbart for gawds sake) he is LYING about even writing the damn thing at all.
It's a LIE because DFT is a LIAR.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Who copied whose tile I don't know. But not the same.
There's the central motif, with 2 rows of a patterned tile outside--same in both pics. But in the jewelry shop, to our left, there are two stair-stepped rows of patterned tiles (same as above /behind the central motif); in DT's pic there's one row of tiles with writing? and then something else. Same designer I think, not the same place.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Chris Hayes just did a thing on it. The lobby has 2 desks, and the tile behind them is slightly different, but both have the vases. The desk Trump is at really does have that eagle in the wide pic they found. Its next to the receptionist desk (with the lamp) in the lobby at Mar-A-Lago.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)volstork
(5,401 posts)this asshole does is a lie!
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)fuck himself.
How many times will he say GREAT? I can't even look at him.
Oneironaut
(5,495 posts)The right-hand side of the jewelry store backdrop is also curved around the corner, while the right of Trump looks like a solid wall. This is two different places, but the jewelry store design is probably made to look like Mar-A-Lago (and very well done).
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)See posts above for clarification. It's a reception/lobby desk (the desks are beside each other). It's certainly NOT someplace somebody sits down to write a historic speech, that's for sure. And he's holding a Sharpie?