White House Releases Hilarious Photos to Show Trump Is Working During Shutdown

[TomCADem]

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Source: Slate

The White House wants the American people to know President Donald Trump is working “during the Democrat shutdown.” So it sent out a couple of photos that purport to show the commander in chief doing just that. In truth though, the pictures all look like the result of a photoshoot and are unlikely to convince anyone the president was doing anything but taking “executive time” during the shutdown.

There are several eyebrow-raising details about all the photos, including the fact that the president is always wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap, making them rife for mockery on social media. Plus, there’s the pesky detail that none of the photos actually show Trump meeting with any congressional leaders that could signify an effort to perhaps even talk about the shutdown. Instead we see a president roaming around the White House, chatting with staff, as if he’s just holding tight and waiting for someone else to solve the problem.

The most (unintentionally) funny photo is surely the one showing Trump sitting at his desk on the phone. “I too conduct most of my most important work with a phone in my hand and nothing on my desk, while staring vacantly off into space,” Daily Beast editor Erin Gloria Ryan wrote on Twitter. Producer Rob Hedrick has a question regarding the photo: “Working on what … Sitting on hold?”

Another photo shows Trump walking down a hallway and the third shows him “meeting” with several staff members, including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. It looks like they don’t have a care in the world. “Everyone is very smiley in this picture,” notes Reuters reporter Ginger Gibson.

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[YOHABLO]

1. All I can say is: YUK!

[Hortensis]

13. My word was bizarre. Looks like every clerk in the west wing

was ordered to hoof it over to someplace stat for a picture. All in a day's work. They'll all be keeping this for a souvenir, you know. Wonder how long before they take it off the wall and hide it in in a closet.

[MontanaMama]

2. The "Democrat Shutdown"?

WTAF? Screw these morons.

[CatWoman]

3. reminds me of Eddie Murphy's Mac Daddy Vibe

[Turbineguy]

4. Working?

when did he develop a taste for working?

[thbobby]

5. All in photo saying

Please Mr. President, may we kiss your ass again?

[olddad56]

11. I'm not sure about that. I think a lot of them look like they think he is a joke...

and they are just going along with it.

[SergeStorms]

6. I don't see chrome-dome Miller.....

anywhere in the picture. He generally elbows people out of the way to get his fawning mug in any photo with his hero.

Do they think this photo is fooling anyone? Who, in their right mind, is going to think this is anything but a posed, mandatory photo of Trump and his suck-asses lovingly ogling their hero?

Totally sickening.

[jmowreader]

7. Uhh...

...could anyone tell me why all the people in this picture, except for Trump, have the same expression on their face you see in pictures of religious cult members? If they were dressed in orange, I'd say they were followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

[Eyeball_Kid]

8. The more I stare at that photo, the crazier he looks.

Trumpy and Princess Ivanka are eyeing one another. Ivanka shouldn't look that happy.

And who's this goon with the alligator shoes and the grey wetsuit? Is that a Spandex suit coat?

The good news is that Pence isn't in the photo. He adds a macabre flavor to these media events. Most of the photo ops with him in a group more resemble a gathering of a family in a funeral home with Mike as the funeral director. Pence is perfectly coiffed to bring to mind a man who's professional career involves working with cadavers.

[No Vested Interest]

9. Has there been an explanation for his wearing the baseball cap while "working" today? nt

[Virtual Burlesque]

10. Somehow all their photo ops turn into photo oops. (eom)

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. NOT a very flattering photo of shithole, is it. He's quite disgusting looking.

[modrepub]

14. EPA Friend

says they are to report to work this week. Seems like some federal agencies are being told to ignore the shutdown.

[yardwork]

15. Notice something about all the people in that photo?

[riversedge]

16. It is the #Trumpshutdown--NOT

--the Democrat shutdown---as the tweet says. uga uga.

[dicksmc3]

17. Good Grief!!

Take that ridiculous fucking hat off and burn the damn thing!!

[DonViejo]

18. Locking....

Over 12 hours old. Published JAN 21, 2018 7:54 AM, posted on the LBN Forum Jan 21, 2018, 11:45 PM