• @Wilzax
    link
    652 months ago

    This photo looks like propaganda from a fabricated event, not a real candid from an actual attempt on a political figurehead’s life.

    Why is the flag upside down?

    Why is it perfectly in frame to fill the space that would otherwise be blank sky?

    Why was Trump allowed by his security detail to stand back up?

    It’s all extremely suspicious and screams “preplanned” to me

    • Transient Punk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      992 months ago

      In the photo he is standing in the same spot as he was when he was speaking. So it would make sense that an astute photographer would have already lined up this shot on a tripod from when he was speaking. That’s what I would have done

      • @Wilzax
        link
        -312 months ago

        I understand why Trump would be in frame, but not why the flag would be in the same spot AND upside-down.

        If the flagpole fell in the confusion, that could explain it being upside-down but not in frame.

        If the flag were already there, that would explain it being in frame but not upside-down.

        It all seems too coincidental.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          532 months ago

          this reads like conspiratorial thinking tbh. Its easy to grab at the idea that this is somehow Trump’s doing, but things like this do sometimes happen

          • @Wilzax
            link
            182 months ago

            I so desperately want it to be revealed to be a conspiracy because it would further discredit Trump. But I know it isn’t, which is so utterly terrifying for our democracy.

            • @MisterFrog
              link
              52 months ago

              I think the better answer is: it’s currently unknown.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
          link
          English
          152 months ago

          It’s not upside down, but I agree that it sure looks planned. Somehow every fucking situation that could sink trump always happens to help him.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      862 months ago

      How could a Pulitzer prize winning photographer manage to take a very good photo? Surely it must be staged. I bet Trump paid that guy the secret service killed to shoot him and kill an attendee!

      • @Wilzax
        link
        382 months ago

        The man better win another Pulitzer. This photo will have a substantial effect on the world.

        • @return2ozmaOP
          link
          252 months ago

          I hate Trump but this photo is historic. They’re saying it’s like the Iwo Jima photo.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            352 months ago

            Except trump is a criminal rapist surrounded by the best security in the world, not a soldier fighting a battle on a hillside. Lets not glorify him.

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              English
              3
              edit-2
              2 months ago

              You’re absolutely right, but that unfortunately doesn’t matter for almost half of America considering how many people still keep lapping him up.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            72 months ago

            No, it isn’t, the Iwo Jima photo is staged.

            (Seriously, not really staged, but it’s actually the second flag. Interesting story btw.)

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      362 months ago

      Eh, I don’t think you can take a shot at a Trump really that doesn’t have an American flag somewhere on it.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      262 months ago

      It’s not upside down, that’s just the angle. It’s just hanging vertically. Even if it were hanging upside down, though, that wouldn’t be unusual for this lot. A lot of Maga fucks fly it that way around here, almost as a way of saying how fucked they see this country. It plays into their victim complex.

      • @Maggoty
        link
        72 months ago

        I remember when you’d go check on someone if you saw their flag flying upside-down. These idiots have turned it into a political statement instead.

    • @adam_y
      link
      English
      212 months ago

      You see, it’s that sort of conspiracy bullshit that will erode everything.

      Could it be the work of a professional photographer bringing their A game? No, it must be staged.

      Why are all these random things like that? It must be “preplanned” …or… Maybe you would have found similar things in any photograph from a political rally.

      Thing is, you sound like a classic MAGA when you say daft stuff.

    • @Maggoty
      link
      202 months ago

      If you watch the video you can see how it all fits together. It’s just a very good photographer doing their job.

      • @Wilzax
        link
        82 months ago

        I agree. I don’t actually think it’s staged having seen the footage for myself and reading statements made by the secret service. My other comments are my first reactions to seeing this image

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      12
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      The flag is likely quite comically large (as in a hundred or more feet long), decently far away, and is being ‘hung’ by basically small construction cranes, which are holding it such that if there was no wind, it would be hanging vertically.

      There is significant wind, so its going with the direction.

      Zoom in on the connector point and you can see basically a jerry rigged, oversized winch. Theres a similar winch at the other point on the right side of the image, and the crane is presumably out of frame.

      Its perfectly in frame because some photographers are quite good at their jobs.

      Trump was allowed to stand up because he could, under his own power, and the shooter had already been declared down at that point.

      • @Wilzax
        link
        42 months ago

        I agree. It’s an incredible photo and the details that I didn’t know when making the parent comment all support that it’s real.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      72 months ago

      Why is it perfectly in frame to fill the space that would otherwise be blank sky?

      It could have been cropped.