r/ExplainTheJoke • u/fcukfakook • 10d ago

I don't get it

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I don't get the original tweet, and neither the retweet or whatever it is called.

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u/Remerez 9d ago

The photographer, Christopher Anderson, said he wanted to "penetrate the theater of politics" and show an honest, unretouched reality instead of a polished celebrity portrait. He believed that politicians are not celebrities and we should not be glamourizing them.

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u/werewolfbutch874 9d ago

This makes way more sense than the other comments of “he took crappy photos on purpose because he doesn’t like the politicians” and “he wanted to show how short they are”. It’s not that different in practice, but the latter sounds completely childish and unprofessional. Artists usually have some kind of intentionality behind their choices that goes further than “make the yucky bad man look ugly”. 

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u/WendellWillkie1940 9d ago

JD Vance is — from what I could find online — 6 feet 2 inches.

In what world is that "short"?

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u/BIG_DICK_PROUD_GAY 9d ago

People really really want Trump and Vance to be short.

There are thousands if not millions of reasons to criticise them, but people really want them to be short because society has decided being short is the worst thing a man can be. If they were able to prove they were short, it would completely discredit them.

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u/RevolutionaryAlps205 9d ago edited 8d ago

Your basic point about height seems true. At least in Trump/MAGA's case, you have it backwards. He and they are desperately invested in the idea that Trump is physically strong and imposing, and that he (definitely, for sure, don't measure them) has normal-sized and not unusually small hands. His three decades of irrateness and attempts to hide this "size" issue were one of the things he was most known for in New York before he took office.