From the golden eagle under the table in the lower left to George Washington's camel-toe pants to the 3 shades of blue in the too-tight clothing of the 3 human figures to the insane line-up of gold objects on the mantle to the now-iconic desperate gesture of hiding behind binders, the photograph is perfect.
Link to NYT page: here.
You're either there or you're not. You can't concoct a way to not be there when you are there. It's like the way a baby might think in the early stages of learning the game of peek-a-boo. It's reminiscent of thousands of photos of perps — walked in front of the press — trying to hide behind their collar.
It made me think of Magritte....
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It's reminiscent of thousands of photos of perps
She is a Wile E. Coyote
Auditioning to be in one Mitt Romney's binders.
Gretchen Whitmer hiding from the press. But Ghibli.
OMG, Dems, lighten up.
Ann said ‘camel-toe’. Hahahaha … I wanna see the blond on the left’s camel-toe.
It’s fun being 14 again.
- Krumhorn
The male is moose-knuckle, not camel-toe.
She should hide her face. She has much to be ashamed of. She should have been met, if at all, in a DC back alley where criminals ply their trades, not in the White House.
"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
..."The episode was the result of a remarkable attempt at reconciliation between Ms. Whitmer and Mr. Trump, who dismissed her in 2020 as “that woman from Michigan” during a clash over his administration’s pandemic response...."
Oh, is that what they call it now? She's 'reconciling' all over the place? Somehow, I knew the Progressive Legacy media would run the screen play to protect the future candidate. Funny how 'reconciliation' is taking place with the 'convicted felon', but to all appearances, Whitmer is the one doing the perp walk. She could have left if she was so uncomfortable, right? But - business is business. If the Democrats weren't so appallingly unprincipled, they wouldn't have any principles at all.
Whoops.
Well that childish image takes her out of the running for 2028.
I see the spinning is furious on this. My take would be that Trump and his team suspected Whitmer would misrepresent what went on in a private meeting and wanted an opportunity for Trump to publicly and to her face compliment her to head off any of her negative spin. She was embarrassed that she got played and couldn't help showing it.
The painting made me think of this shot from a Naked Gun movie, which they apparently are remaking. Naked Gun
Note the complete lack of agency they attribute to Whitmore - she "found herself" there, like Dorothy found herself in Oz.
Haha I just can’t imagine what she was thinking! Fight or flight response.
Don't look at the puppet head. (D)
This photo alone should end her presidential ambitions; a good thing, too, she's bad news and may actually be evil.
Comedy gold.
the democrat party are children.
don't even get near Trump - or you'll get cooties!
Christopher B at 8:31 nails it. Trump and his staff was foreclosing the opportunity of Whitmer lying about the meeting which she was sure to do.
The picture with her face showing looks like the face of someone who had taken a big bite out of a dog turd.
She should hide her face. There are people sitting in prison right now because of an entrapment operation centered on her.
She couldn't care less.
What are Patel and Bondi going to do about it?
She showed bad political instincts. She clearly had fgured out that a picture was about to be taken and had enough time to raise the folder to her face instead of...I don't know, maybe open it and look down as if she were reading something, looking for an answer to something. That way her face would not have shown.
This photo alone should end her presidential ambitions
If SNL were still actually funny, it would do a skit of Vance debating a faceless woman hiding behind a binder. Alas...
Only then did she realize that in her haste to catch her flight she had left her Cloak of Invisibility on the kitchen chair.
Binders and binders of women.
Gretchen has instantly DQed herself from higher office. LOL
..."It made me think of Magritte....''
It's too bad Gretchen's folder cover wasn't a picture of a big green apple.
Profiles in Courage.
Peek a boo? Like Siouxie?
Creeping up the backstairs
Slinking into dark stalls
Shapeless and slumped in bath chairs
Furtive eyes peep out of holes
She has many guises
She'll do what you want her to
Playing dead and sweet submission
Cracks the whip deadpan on cue
Peek-A-Boo, Peek-A-Boo
Peek-A-Boo, Peek-A-Boo
JSM
Althouse said...
It made me think of Magritte....
Which made me think of Frank Drebin.
This makes the infamous 1988 photo of Dukakis riding in a tank look benign. Say “Goodnight,” Gretchen.
Maybe she just sneezed? Tired of these isolated gotcha pics.
She should had worn a burqa. That is likely to become a politically correct piece of clothing for the democrats - given their support of Islamism.
Maybe she just sneezed? Tired of these isolated gotcha pics. Or maybe she was reviewing her briefing notes, and she's myopic.
....or maybe she's sneezing because she's allergic to cameras.
Maybe there was a fly on her nose.
Make no mistake, I think she is awful, but I distrust pictures like this. With modern digital cameras, you can take high resolution pictures at a breakneck speed. She might have raised the folders to cover a cough or sneeze. I'd want to see video to affirm she was, in fact, hiding from the press.
There's no reason not to be skeptical of this photo's premise, given the Legacy Media's history of flagrant distortions and outright lying - except that Whitmer is a Democrat. And her office has gone to some length to put distance on her visit to the Oval Office, being careful to state that her presence there was not an endorsement of the matters that Trump was discussing with the Press Corps. All while making no mention of her obvious attempts to hide, not a single protest that the photo had been unfairly captured. I suspect this to be the case, because they know there is also video. The other still photos of her, standing in the background, show a glum demeanor of someone that is not happy to be there, under the circumstances. Let's see the video ! That oughta settle it - and it'll settle her Presidential ambitions too, so, yeah we'll never see it.
So much wrong here…
She’s worried about the political fallout from going to the White House, the office of the president of the United States, simply because the current president is from the other party!?
So much for loyal opposition…
the way a baby might think
That was my immediate thought—“if I can’t see them, then they can’t see me.”
I can only assume her plan is to later deny that that’s her.
Wow that is/should be terminally (politically) embarrassing.
The black hides her gunt a bit but the zipper calls attention to it. And Washington’s right forearm looks broken. No one can pronate their hand that much. Jefferson takes it all in.
If she had a lick of sense and good political instincts, she would have simply turned her back to the camera, like those lesbian art lovers at Columbia in the 1950's. That would have turned the photo into a "protest", instead of a chickenshit libtard politician trying to deceive the public, as usual.
That's just pathetic. Grow up. You're making all women look bad.
"This makes the infamous 1988 photo of Dukakis riding in a tank look benign."
I found the pure joy radiating on the face of Dukakis riding in the tank, despite the absurd helmet, one of his few positives in his entire campaign. He was, after all, a very bored radio operator in Wusan in Korea for his voluntary military service, and a tank ride would have been a delightful experience in comparison.
Whitmer should resign and never serve anywhere ever again.
Let that be a lesson boys and girls. Don’t put all your eggs in the polls basket.
"I'd want to see video to affirm she was, in fact, hiding from the press."
After the leftard frenzy over Musk's "Hitler salute", I don't give a shit anymore. Make them play by their own rules.
Hiding calls for more attention, rather than less.
Gretch just spoiled whatever chance she has of attaining higher office.
George Washington's camel-toe pants
1st thought: Why is she going there?
2nd thought: I always thought he was the first president because he won the war, but he wasn't that good a general, so ...
3rd thought: Do men have those? What kind of "junk" does a man have to have to have a camel toe?
At some point in the early 80s I walked through the Trump Tower* lobby in NYC and thought, man, is this tacky.
I see his taste hasn't improved.
*Not sure about the date, but I'm sure about the building.
It seems strange that people think the Oval Office photo is going to end her chances at higher office. I thought her infamous "Eucharist" video already did the trick. (Link to a copy of the video on Instagram.)
PS. She won't ever be president, but she's a safe bet for a cabinet position in a future Democrat administration.
PPS. I would have expected a lot more Romney "binders full of women" jokes. At least Saint Croix at 7:51 AM was on the job.
I was amused by the guy giving her the side-eye, like he's thinking, "That's not going to work." And five buttons on each sleeve of her jacket? Looks like it belongs in a Gilbert & Sullivan opera.
She had to cover up, her plastic face skin had probably torn revealing her scaly lizard face.
My wife isn't an into politics as I am, so when I showed her this picture last night, she thought it was fake.
And then she asked, "Who does that? Who acts like that? A second-grader?"
I simply smiled.
Maybe she just sneezed? Tired of these isolated gotcha pics.
Yeah. Go with that.
She should have gone to Biden for hiding at the White House pro tips.
Remember when 6-6 (or taller) Comey said he had tried to hide in the White House drapes because he was afraid Trump would come up and talk to him. (Something that wasn't allowed under the Constitution or some insane Comey nonsense)
LOL - I hope Trump isn't stupid enough to trust her. Or think she's "Cozying up" to him. Whitmer is Whitless.
We like politicians who don’t get clowned by Trump.
Whitmer and Newsom taking themselves out before things even get started is helpful at least.
Don’t need more candidates than podiums.
The FBI faked up a kidnap plot for her, so I figure that she has some kind of inside track on the presidency in the Democratic Party, it was probably decided at some kind of Eyes Wide Shut type meeting.
Wow, to think the democrats (Obamas too?) believed this woman was ready for prime-time presidential campaign. Those poor Michiganders stuck with the charming lady, no wonder half the state thinks she's certifiably nuts.
Get the woman a personal dresser, and Ms Manners on speed-dial. Even Kamala Harris was usually more presentable.
It's like Martin Sheen at the end of The Dead Zone.
Binders full of women.
Binders full of women.
Clyde said...
“I was amused by the guy giving her the side-eye, like he's thinking, "That's not going to work." And five buttons on each sleeve of her jacket? Looks like it belongs in a Gilbert & Sullivan opera.”
“I’m the very model of a modern Michigan guvnuh.” - who’s from Brigadoon.
RCOCEAN II said...
“Remember when 6-6 (or taller) Comey said he had tried to hide in the White House drapes…”
After that, did he have some suggestions for Jill Biden?
Jim said...
“Binders full of women.”
Woman full of binders.
What’s all the fuss!? It’s the usual progressive “magical thinking”.
Is she embarrassed to be there? A girl- boss should be made of sterner stuff. After that photo-op she should start planning an after-office policy institute, she's got zero chance of winning the Dem POTUS nomination now, or ever for that matter.
Remember when Richard Mulligan in Soap used to click his fingers to turn invisible?
How to end your political career in one picture.
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