Always has been
I’d like the context of photo please. I am not history-learned. Only spark-notes-of-history-acquainted.
I’m not sure of the origin of the photo but it’s been around for some years now as a meme showing how media can be manipulative.
Ah I understand now. I filtered out the two photos on the side, figuring they were just an aesthetic choice.
who are these?
- Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Majority Leader
- Donald Trump (R-MAGAstan), former and future president
- Not sure about baldy
President elect Trump and Senate minority leader schumer, notable for being from parties that claim the other is the enemy
Picture looks adversarial af. Caption: They’re all friends.
Yeah, okay.
Trump’s embracing Schumer here, I’d rate this 0% adversarial because I’m a sicko who’s seen their body language/interactions which were well documented during the first Trump admin.
Picture is from 2017.
Ahah, that’s relevant. Though the only difference this time will probably be Schumer having less facetime because the Democrats having vastly less power in Congress/the Senate. Nobody in the room is making any decision that would meaningfully worsen their conditions or those of anyone whose conditions they care about.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/13/politics/donald-trump-chuck-schumer-new-york/index.html
Correct, this was from a brief phase where Trump was trying on bipartisanship, and Schumer was trying to connect with him as a fellow New Yorker. I remember the talk at the time was Trump might go the way of Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was CA governor, tacking to the center and trying to become bipartisan to improve his approval ratings and mitigate midterm losses and ultimately set him up better for reelection. Obviously, it didn’t work out like that, but there was a brief time where bipartisanship was on the table.
