Obama’s photographer @PeteSouza points out that @realDonaldTrump’s “war room” photo isn’t just posed (the photographer would be standing between the Serious Looking White Men and the monitors)—it’s actually clearly faked, in keeping with the Trump brand 
Via @KagroX, at 3:33 pm DC time, the time of the raid that led to Baghdadi’s death, @realDonaldTrump was playing golf with @LindseyGrahamSC at his own golf club, paid for by taxpayers. When they realized the raid had happened, they set up the shoot to “capture history”
Gina Haspel, director of the CIA, was intimately involved in the operation, but as a woman was deemed unnecessary for the staged photo
Narrator: He was actually watching a movie
Courtesy of @PeteSouza, what an actual Situation Room looks like when serious sh%t is going down
Trump did not brief @SpeakerPelosi or top Democrats on the raid, as per our constitutionally defined coequal branches of government
However he did make sure to brief in advance the ultimate branch or present-day US government, the Kremlin
Also: Trump basically says “Eff the Kurds” (again)
One more clear sign that this is a badly staged vanity photo op for @realDonaldTrump: No one knows where they should be looking, even though they’re allegedly watching a tense black-ops mission playing out live on monitors directly in front of them
#Baghdadi
#Baghdadi
By contrast, an eyeline graph of the clearly not #staged photo of the Obama Situation Room during the Bin Laden raid. All eyes are facing the same direction and riveted on the monitor (except for the one general who’s likely acting as controller/comms with the mission leads)
(Also the laptops are plugged in in the Obama photo, Trump can’t even be bothered with that detail)
As the stager-in-chief takes credit for the Baghdadi strike, actual military and intel officials are welping hard
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