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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Photo of Trump with women’s tennis team mocked as ‘egregiously bad’

  • A photo of President Donald Trump posing with the University of Georgia’s championship-winning women’s tennis team has been widely mocked due to its puzzling composition.
  • The image, shared by a White House staffer, shows the women's team positioned behind six men, including Trump who was standing on a slightly elevated step.
  • Social media users criticized the photo, questioning why the men were more prominent in the picture than the women they were meant to be honoring.
  • “Whomever from the WH comms team that approved this photo composition should be immediately fired. It’s so egregiously bad that it’s an assault on good sensibility,” one critic wrote.
  • Others made tongue-in-cheek references, with one user writing: “I thought y’all were all about keeping men out of women’s sports,” in reference to Trump’s vow to keep transgender athletes from competing in female events.

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