Former White House photographer trolls Trump hand-holding

Whatever happened to Pete Souza, the White House photographer during the Obama years?

He’s still got lots of presidential photographs to publish and some shade to throw, as he did yesterday.

Holding hands.

A post shared by Pete Souza (@petesouza) on May 23, 2017 at 7:53am PDT

Photographers don’t need words.

It’s a subtle response to these:

Watch Melania Trump swat away President Trump's attempt to hold her hand as the couple arrives in Israel https://t.co/2mZnWqc3dL pic.twitter.com/MBiysSYJj1

— People Magazine (@people) May 22, 2017

https://twitter.com/people/status/867121522573541377\

and this just in:

Pres. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tour the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after visiting with Pope Francis pic.twitter.com/VpTiCm6uG6

— ABC News (@ABC) May 24, 2017

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Bob Collins

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Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.