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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 07:20 PM Oct 2020

The White House has conducted another photo shoot in @realDonaldTrump's suite cuz phones looked old


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Jennifer Taub
@jentaub
They are putting photographers at risk because of the phone and looks old. Unbelievable

Andrew Feinberg
@AndrewFeinberg
HEADS UP: The White House has conducted another photo shoot in @realDonaldTrump’s suite, according to a source familiar.

I’m told one reason for this is that White House officials wanted to swap out the telephones pictured here because they “looked too old.”
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The White House has conducted another photo shoot in @realDonaldTrump's suite cuz phones looked old (Original Post) soothsayer Oct 2020 OP
Trump still is not reading anything without those glasses. LizBeth Oct 2020 #1
Everything and everyone are mere props in his drama dalton99a Oct 2020 #2
There's something else in that room looking far older. yonder Oct 2020 #3
Ha soothsayer Oct 2020 #4
Agreed! nt crickets Oct 2020 #7
Bullseye! Cha Oct 2020 #9
I would rather be a war zone photographer than one who had to go into that room for that photo op. Ferrets are Cool Oct 2020 #5
Rotary dial too? safeinOhio Oct 2020 #6
He's all about the optics A HERETIC I AM Oct 2020 #8
Yep soothsayer Oct 2020 #10

A HERETIC I AM

(24,382 posts)
8. He's all about the optics
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 08:51 PM
Oct 2020

One thing that has been said about the guy over and over, is that he has a real sense of TV as a media, how things look and how others see those things. He knows what looks good and what doesn't. After all, he has been manipulating the media for 40 years.

I've said this before, and so have many others;

He is playing a part in a reality TV show of his own making, in which he is the star, the writer and the producer.

He isn't "The President" by any stretch, because he didn't, doesn't, and never will understand what that (being the head of state) actually means and entails.

But he is playing the part. And he LOVES it.

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