She’ll make a good companion to Petey Boy. Both of them seem to think that only “good” pictures can be published. Shoot, if you’re in the public eye, it’s practically guaranteed that there are going to be some not-so-hot pictures of you out there. This is getting ridiculous. They seem to think they have control over what is seen. Nope. This is “Prima Donnas ‘R’ Us”. It’s ridiculous that they’re fussing about this when the country is going to hell and we’re in an illegal war. Regards to Raw Story:
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was the latest person in the Trump administration to demand photographers remove a photo she deemed unflattering, according to reports on Tuesday. Leavitt was apparently unhappy with an image of herself, a turkey, and her son around Thanksgiving and disliked it so much that she reached out to the agency that captured it, The New Republic reported. Since then, the image has been removed from Agence France-Presse’s collection and also scrubbed from Getty’s archive.
Oh, vanity. The ball is rolling through the Trump ‘cabinet’ with “bad” photos. Surprisingly, Trump hasn’t complained, but then he has the mindset of I’m the orange face tin god, and I look fantastic all the time! Yea no. He doesn’t allow anything to break through that ego. If it doesn’t work for him, he ignores it. His world is about gold decorations and money.
“The photo, taken by Agence France-Presse photographer Andrew Caballero-Reynolds at a very low angle, is pointed up at Leavitt, who is smiling in a manner that gives her a double chin, while she is holding her son. A turkey they were looking down at, ‘Waddle,’ is also featured in frame very prominently,” according to The New Republic. This isn’t the only time the White House has found a photo problematic. Leavitt’s request comes as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also apparently had an issue with recent photos of himself.
Ironically, Petey Boy put in a makeup room for himself. He should loan it to KKKaroline for professional pictures. On the other hand, even makeup cannot hide a double chin. She just needs to pay attention. If there’s a press conference or something comes up, she should be conscious of it with her posture. It might not help anyhow. She’s worn some truly dreadful outfits.
The Pentagon apparently shut out photographers from attending press briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war in Iran after Hegseth’s staff decided recent photos of him were “unflattering,” The Washington Post reported. The images from the March 2 briefing came after Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed during a joint U.S.-Israeli military strike on Feb. 28. It was the first time Hegseth had appeared in the briefing room and spoken to press since June 26.
AFP has denied that there was a formal request to remove the image of Leavitt, who made it clear she did not like it. “While we were made aware that White House staff found the photo unflattering, we want to be clear that there was no formal request to remove it, nor was there any external pressure involved,” AFP’s director of brand and communications Grégoire Lemarchand told The Daily Beast.
Vanity and ego. What a pair. They’re taking pointers from Trump on those qualities. Are they going to ban photographers from KKKaroline’s press conferences now? As I mentioned in a previous column, anyone who is in the public eye should know that there may be bad, “unflattering” pictures of them. It’s just the way it works.
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so it’s not capitulation, it’s pre-emptive appeasment. gotcha. also, she is not going to age well.
Y’know, that’s a very good phrase to us! Pre-emptive appeasement. I hope I remember that.
No, she’s definitely not going to age well. You can already see the changes in her face just from the past year and a bit.