A photo delivered yesterday that will be displayed in the upper/lower press hall. Thank you Abbas! pic.twitter.com/Uzp0ivvRp0
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2017
As far as Donald Trump’s tweets go, this one, which he sent on Tuesday, is downright normal: “A photo delivered yesterday that will be displayed in the upper/lower press hall. Thank you Abbas!” Nothing shocking there, and the photo in question doesn’t show the president shaking hands with Vladimir Putin or anything (too) scandalous; it’s of the Inauguration Day ceremony. This being Trump, though, there’s more to the picture than meets the eye.
The caption on the photo (taken by Panoramic Visions Photography founder Abbas Shirmohammadi, who has “been involved in creating images of every presidential inaugural since Ronald Reagan”) reads, “Swearing-In Ceremony of President Donald J. Trump, January 21st, 2017, United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.” One problem: that wasn’t the date of the inauguration. Trump officially became president on January 20 (as has every president since 1937) — the Women’s March on Washington was held on January 21.
The funniest possible explanation for the “typo” would be Shirmohammadi throwing Department of Defense-level shade at Trump, but the photographer, an Iranian immigrant living in Washington, told the New York Daily News it was a “mistake. It was midnight, it was such a rush. We just corrected it.” That didn’t stop the internet from having fun with this “alternative fact,” though.
This photo has the wrong date printed on it. https://t.co/2nBCx4ULHF
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) January 24, 2017
In case @realDonaldTrump deletes this later, if he realizes this photo is marked "1/21" (date of the #WomensMarch) not 1/20 (inauguration) pic.twitter.com/xvhGICcJze
— Keith Olbermann⌚️ (@KeithOlbermann) January 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/823939546266091520
see, it's funny because you're trying to make a point about crowd size but the date in the photo is of the bigger crowd.
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) January 24, 2017
.@realDonaldTrump DONALD JOHN TRUMP, the photo caption says January 21st! Oh dear lord, honey. You are hanging an error in the press room. pic.twitter.com/S9kme28L6L
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) January 24, 2017
They're trying to sabotage you Mr President. That picture is marked with the wrong date, you were inaugurated on the 20th.#GotYourBack https://t.co/Beb6imoaA4
— Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) January 24, 2017
Snowflake In Chief
(P.S. wrong date on the photo. That's the date of the Women's March.) https://t.co/uYySOO7t10
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) January 24, 2017
lmao this literally has the wrong date on it https://t.co/G5WKbs1Ahq
— Brett (@BrettRedacted) January 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/823940502395428871
https://twitter.com/JulieDiCaro/status/823943267213524994
https://twitter.com/samantha7421/status/823961511685144577
(Via New York Daily News)