Fox & Friends Defends Trump Against Mockery Over Weird Handshake Photo: ‘President Awkward Face’
Media mocks “awkward” photo of President Trump during photo event pic.twitter.com/hwXUgPJlBz
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) November 13, 2017
Fox & Friends took to the trenches to defend President Donald Trump on Monday morning against the mockery he received for an awkward photo taken on his Asia trip this weekend.
As a number of world leaders met at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in the Philippines, they posed for the annual “family photo,” and Trump was forced to cross his arms and hold hands with President — and self-professed murderer – Rodrigo Duterte, the photos of which received some mockery online.
But do not fear, Mr. President, Fox & Friends has your back.
“It’s no secret that the New York Times has not been very friendly to the president or this administration,” co-host Ainsley Earhardt opened the segment.
Earhardt then explained that Times photographer Doug Mills tweeted out the below photo of Trump looking super weird while making the binding handshake, “but if you watch the video, do you see that face?”
“They snapped the photo when he was making that interesting awkward face.”
.@realDonaldTrump joins other leaders in a handshake with President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, right, during the opening ceremony of the 31st ASEAN Summit pic.twitter.com/mfqTU8AmUr
— Doug Mills (@dougmillsnyt) November 13, 2017
Steve Doocy noted that the photo of “President Awkward Face” was taken Mills in what a Washington Post analysis described as “revenge” for the administration restricting press access on the trip.
It’s worth noting that a number of other photographers — not just Mills — snapped the same picture of President Awkward Face.
“Well when you watch the video and see the photo it’s obvious what they’re doing,” Earhardt declared. “They’re trying to portray him as being awkward as we just said, and they want to portray him in that light.”
“Is it President Trump’s fault he’s six-three?” asked Brian Kilmeade. “No.”
Watch the defense above, via Fox News.
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