Former White House photographer Pete Souza has spent the last 17 months reminding Americans through his photography how good we had it under the Obama Administration. He’s trolled our current bigot in chief on his Instagram account, using images of a serious and compassionate president to highlight how terrible the orange one is.
Publisher Little Brown has decided to put all of Pete Souza’s images together in a book that will contrast President Obama’s years as a leader, alongside Donald Trump’s garbage fire existence. The Boston Globe reports that the book is scheduled for a publishing release date this coming October, and will be titled Shade: A Take of Two Presidents.
Due out in October, the book, like Souza’s Instagram account, will throw shade at Trump using photographs from the Obama years, framed by quotes, tweets, and headlines from the first 500 days of the Trump presidency. (The book will include more than 100 photos that did not appear in Souza’s previous book, “Obama: An Intimate Portrait.”)
Below the fold you can see some of Souza’s Instagram work.
He he.
Exactly.
You know he wasn’t.
And a couple ones that will make you sad.
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Dec. 16, 2012. Newtown. After meeting with families for hours, he sat alone in a classroom before attending a prayer vigil: “....This is our first task — caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged. And by that measure, can we truly say, as a nation, that we are meeting our obligations? Can we honestly say that we're doing enough to keep our children — all of them — safe from harm? Can we claim, as a nation, that we're all together there, letting them know that they are loved, and teaching them to love in return? Can we say that we're truly doing enough to give all the children of this country the chance they deserve to live out their lives in happiness and with purpose? I've been reflecting on this the last few days, and if we're honest with ourselves, the answer is no. We're not doing enough. And we will have to change.”
A post shared by Pete Souza (@petesouza) on Feb 17, 2018 at 6:09am PST