Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2017 20:48:17 GMT -5
You've probably heard about the teacher of the year who chose to be visibly queer as he posed with the Trumps. The fabulous photo:
Many have taken this as an act defying Trump. But here's the thing -- one of Trump's aides tried to get the guy to put his fan away. So the guy asked Trump's permission to pose with it -- and Trump granted it:
www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2017/06/17/a-teachers-decision-to-be-visibly-queer-in-his-photo-with-president-trump/?utm_term=.d88b79af6840
Anyway. I genuinely, sincerely give Trump two thumbs up for telling the guy he could pose with his fan.
That might even be...adorable.
ETA:
It goes without saying I find the guy with the fan adorable.
Many have taken this as an act defying Trump. But here's the thing -- one of Trump's aides tried to get the guy to put his fan away. So the guy asked Trump's permission to pose with it -- and Trump granted it:
The lace fan was his partner’s, he said, though it has become a regular traveling aid when he visits somewhere warm — as Washington was in April.
The gold anchor around his neck was not his standard attire. But he was representing Rhode Island, and it’s the state symbol, after all.
“I was definitely nervous,” Giannopoulos said. “I didn’t know what the reaction would be.”
No one seemed to notice as he passed through security, he recalled. But Trump spotted the fan shortly after the teachers were led into the Oval Office.
“He said I had good style.”
Giannopoulos grew more confident then — enough that when an aide asked him to put the fan away for his private photo, he raised a small protest.
“I said, ‘I was hoping to pose with this,’ ” he said. “They said, ‘No — just put it away.’ ”
He did, for a minute. But before the shutter snapped, Giannopoulos asked the president if he minded.
“He said, sure.” So the fan came out, the ensemble was complete, “and the rest is history,” Giannopoulos said.
The gold anchor around his neck was not his standard attire. But he was representing Rhode Island, and it’s the state symbol, after all.
“I was definitely nervous,” Giannopoulos said. “I didn’t know what the reaction would be.”
No one seemed to notice as he passed through security, he recalled. But Trump spotted the fan shortly after the teachers were led into the Oval Office.
“He said I had good style.”
Giannopoulos grew more confident then — enough that when an aide asked him to put the fan away for his private photo, he raised a small protest.
“I said, ‘I was hoping to pose with this,’ ” he said. “They said, ‘No — just put it away.’ ”
He did, for a minute. But before the shutter snapped, Giannopoulos asked the president if he minded.
“He said, sure.” So the fan came out, the ensemble was complete, “and the rest is history,” Giannopoulos said.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2017/06/17/a-teachers-decision-to-be-visibly-queer-in-his-photo-with-president-trump/?utm_term=.d88b79af6840
Anyway. I genuinely, sincerely give Trump two thumbs up for telling the guy he could pose with his fan.
That might even be...adorable.
ETA:
It goes without saying I find the guy with the fan adorable.
