Not only are anti-Trump reporters of the establishment media pouring out their disgust for Donald Trump in their reporting, even the photographers are lashing out by using unflattering photos of the president. Check this photo out from the president's summit in Asia:
The photo was a snapshot in time, taken at a brief moment where the president had grimaced but then looked presidential and content the rest of the photo. Washington Post reporter David Nakamura took notice and devoted an article to it, with the headliner “News photographer who protested White House restrictions on access gets revenge with revealing shot of Trump.”
Veteran New York Times photographer Doug Mills sought his revenge on the president by posting an unflattering photo of Trump when Mills and his press pool wasn’t allowed to follow the president inside the Pacific Economic Cooperation forum meeting. At first, Mills tweeted a picture of a black box with a caption that read, “This what our APEC Summit photo coverage looks today…blank.”
Apparently still miffed at the president over the weekend, Mills unleashed the unbecoming photo the following Monday at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit. The photo shows the president with a contorted look on his face during the annual summit “family photo.” Of course, anti-Trumpers and Trump haters got their hands on the photo, they made it go viral. CNN’s Chris Cillizza tweeting, “This should be banned,” and NBC’s Frank Thorp applauded Mills, saying he “does it again.”
Nakamura wrote:
Critics of the media, perhaps including Trump himself, might point to Mills's photo as evidence that the “mainstream media” is out to undermine the president in an unfair and biased manner.Surely there were many other frames Mills could have chosen that made Trump look more distinguished. Yet Mills and other pool photographers published the awkward ones…
What Mills's photo does is make a strong case in answer of how this post began — the question of why the access of the independent press matters even on staged photo-ops or seemingly trivial events. In ways both subtle and stark, Trump's awkward grimace reveals the messy reality of high-stakes geopolitics that an airbrushed official portrait of the ASEAN ‘family’ would gloss over.”
But there's really nothing revealing about the "messy reality" of one awkward moment that comes and goes. So if you are wondering why there are so many unattractive photos of the president or his administration floating around, it’s just the latest attempt at media bias on full display.
