Wake up, babe, there’s a new photo going viral because someone in the Trump administration thinks it’s “unflattering.”
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In case you’re getting deja vu right now, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened. A couple of weeks ago, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made headlines after his staff banned press photographers from attending Pentagon press conferences. Apparently, he didn’t like the way he looked in some of their photos.
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And before that, President Donald Trump complained about how he looked on the cover of Time magazine.
Now, it’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s turn, seen here wearing sunglasses to protect her eyes from the glare bouncing off the president’s extra-orange bronzer.
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The 28-year-old reportedly complained that a photo of her taken at the White House during a Thanksgiving event was “unflattering.”
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The photo has since been removed from circulation by Agence France-Presse, a major news agency that supplies dozens of daily photos of the Trump administration to news outlets and to Getty Images.
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An AFP spokesperson reportedly told People that the photo wasn’t removed because of the White House’s complaints. Instead, he said the agency “determined that this specific image did not meet our editorial standards.”But people online have their own theories about the photo, which you can see below:
krassenstein / Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / Via x.comIn addition to going viral on Twitter, it’s also being shared on Bluesky:
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And on Threads:
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Now I’m not a fan of Karoline Leavitt, but as someone who has accidentally opened my phone’s front-facing camera more times than I’d like to admit, I gotta say that angle is not kind to anyone. What are your thoughts?
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