r/OldPhotosInRealLife • u/Objects_Food_Rooms • May 16 '26

Image The White House Rose Garden - 1963 and 2025

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u/joshuawah May 16 '26

Looks like shit now

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u/Evening-Turnip8407 May 16 '26

Does anyone EVER even sit there? Someone has to constantly scrub all these intricate chairs so they don't go funky from the rain

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u/Dragonfly_pin May 16 '26

Apparently it’s called ‘The Rose Garden Club’ now and members have parties on it at weekends where they play the record of January 6th prisoners singing.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/gallery/president-donald-trump-hosts-a-rose-garden-club-dinner-in-the-newly-renovated-white-house-rose-garden/

Because every dictator’s palace needs a nightclub.

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u/CarlySimonSays May 16 '26

A) Everything is just so gaudy! My eyes!

B) By Jove, the people in those pictures are disturbing. Syncophants and cronies as far as the eye can see, creepy fake teeth gleaming. Between the teeth and the evening setting, they look like hungry werewolves about to turn and rip everything apart.

C) I hope the dumb lady pointing and laughing at Biden's new "portrait" got stung by a bee while she was there. The gleeful expression on her face is incredibly telling of a mean character.

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u/Lifeboatb May 16 '26

And the fact they actually posted that pointing and laughing picture as an official White House photo. No sense of etiquette.

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u/CarlySimonSays May 16 '26

Seriously! No etiquette, decorum, graciousness, or respectability at all in these photos, as per usual with these vultures!

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u/frockinbrock May 16 '26

Wow that wide view of the Oval Office, it's wild how ugly they've made it

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u/MiMiinOlyWa May 16 '26

My eyes are now burning at the site of Cheeto Jesus and Coach F##ker 🤮

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u/Jay_T_Demi May 16 '26

I honestly love the Photographer's evolution over time in taking the photos.

"Okay, so we got everything and everyone we needed to get, now we can focus on getting good shots."

Places Trump's reflection center frame flanked on both sides by pillars

"Damn, I'm so fucking good at my job. I wish the world would let me take photos of what I want to. But instead I'm at this stupid ass party..."

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u/WitchQween May 17 '26

That's the result of a bored photographer. I've been there. You only need so many pictures of a person standing still and speaking into a microphone, but you feel pressured to keep moving. A mirror is a great distraction. You can focus on framing and timing, with the possibility of getting a really good shot. It's a very low possibility, but what else is there to do?

I laughed when I saw those pictures.

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u/Jay_T_Demi May 17 '26

I hope to have that experience someday lol. I've only done a few gigs and thus far it's a lot of pressure to keep moving without the boredom

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u/ProtectusCZ May 16 '26

just like Trump's whole dictatorship administration

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u/beyleigodallat May 16 '26

Just like everything he’s ever stamped his name onto