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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs this Trump tuxedo picture real? -- sorry to sound like a conspiracy theorist
The scale of them on the stairs, to the staircase behind them, and lamps looks weird.
Link to tweet
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bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)Course, both people on the stairs are pretty fake, but that's beside the point
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,784 posts)Usually a FLOTUS is more elegantly dressed, more natural in her pose. Trump looks wooden.
hlthe2b
(102,228 posts)Personally, I hate the high-rise pants with stiletto heel look, but...
Generic Brad
(14,274 posts)She is the epitome of class - low class, that is.
Hugin
(33,133 posts)Then I calmed down when I realized Donald can't be pregnant at his age.
PatSeg
(47,410 posts)Everything about it looks "off".
Bettie
(16,092 posts)like a cut out pasted on the stairs.
They aren't even lifelike anymore! LOL.
PatSeg
(47,410 posts)A "cut and paste" with possibly some alterations to the figures.
Tarc
(10,476 posts)that throws the eyes for a loop.
This is an unhealthy, obese man who has spent the majority of his life behind a desk, elbows resting. He doesn't know what to do with himself otherwise.
Srkdqltr
(6,271 posts)WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)He could show em where the buck stops.
Hugin
(33,133 posts)underpants
(182,776 posts)I've been binging on Laurel & Hardy lately. (I never realized how genuinely funny they were.)
Looking at this picture, I can't help noticing the parallels.
JHB
(37,158 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,164 posts)Can't anyone in the WH do anything right?
Liberal In Texas
(13,548 posts)It looks like they're floating on the steps not actually standing.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)The shadows look unnatural, especially on Chump's left side.
It looks like somebody pasted fashion models bodies on the steps of the White House, and then pasted the Chump-and-Melania faces over the models' faces. They did a pretty decent job though. But we know that Chump is way fatter than that, and he probably can't pose on the steps with his shoe lifts like that. Has Melania ever worn a fashion-tux like that?
I'm glad I'm not on their Christmas card list.
Raven
(13,889 posts)in a snit so they found some old photo from "better days" and superimposed it. I'll bet someone can find the old photo.
PatSeg
(47,410 posts)Pobeka
(4,999 posts)I think the whole point of the photo -- keep the subjects small, relative to the image. Keep blow-hard looking straight on. All so you can't see how obese he really is...
irisblue
(32,968 posts)Link to tweet
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underpants
(182,776 posts)Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)they have angled it or photoshopped it to make him appear much thinner than he is.. He is definitely trying to compete with a much fitter Joe Biden..
Polly Hennessey
(6,793 posts)Her or Its looks just annoy me. By the end of January she will be totally blonde. January 20, a day of joy. Joy that we will say President Biden and joy that I will never see the blimp and the skanky one near the White House.
LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)The photo might be real, but the distance and the angle are obviously intended to conceal something about the subjects.
randr
(12,411 posts)crazylikafox
(2,755 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,998 posts)or a body swap.
Poiuyt
(18,122 posts)Melanie is 5'11, and she's wearing very tall heels in this photo. The only way he'd be towering over her like this is if he had big lifts in his shoes.
livetohike
(22,140 posts)calikid
(584 posts)The tell is in the shadows, especially below the waists.
underpants
(182,776 posts)We were looking at a on their photo of this. Strange, there are versions of this out there.
haele
(12,647 posts)They must be 4 or almost 5 ft. tall in that picture. Laz laughed and said they turned into evil, skinny hobbits. They also appear to have gotten 10 to 15 years younger.
Looks like their image was pulled off an old People or Spy magazine and the shadows filled in.
Haele
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)After seeing this, I think the Trump one .... perspective is legit but they went out of their way to make Donald look 50 pounds lighter.
PatSeg
(47,410 posts)for that staircase. The photo is way, way off.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Vinca
(50,267 posts)lettucebe
(2,336 posts)Vinca
(50,267 posts)lettucebe
(2,336 posts)We all know who wears the pants in that family!
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)I vote Photoshop.
Nothing says "Warm family holidays" like a couple in matching tuxedos ... This is another example of trashy people playing to a trashy crowd who think that tuxedos make them look "classy."
Kitchari
(2,166 posts)Qualities that photoshop cannot erase or improve
IcyPeas
(21,859 posts)something. I mean this is the official christmas portrait! It looks like Melania told him to keep his hands off her.
MizLibby
(289 posts)And comparing this to the Obama photo, did someone take scissors to the bottom of the red carpet? That and the tacky isolation technique looks really fake.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)The edges around their bodies, especially Melanomas head, and around both their shoulders, look unrealistically sharp. Either Photoshop, or somebody has mad X-acto knife skills.
Also, since when has Trump looked that er, fit & trim?
These people cant even make a genuine Christmas card. Phonies.
Ms. Toad
(34,065 posts)that no self-respecting photographer would claim that "portrait" as their work.
This one (Andrea Hanks) is. Her name is on it, and although it is not on her instagram account, there are other equally poorly composed photos there. https://www.instagram.com/ahanksphoto/?hl=en
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)THINK huh, interesting choice of word!