Washington (AFP) – US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Kellyanne Conway has come under fire after a picture of her casually kneeling on a couch in the Oval Office was widely shared on social media.
In an image captured by an AFP photographer, Conway appears on the couch with her shoes on as Trump poses for a photo with leaders of historically black colleges and universities.
Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens was among those taking aim at Conway, suggesting that aides under previous administrations would have elicited even greater outcry.
“If Rice or Jarrett had sat like this in Oval Office, conservatives would have screamed themselves hoarse for weeks. Now we own trashy,” he wrote, referring to previous presidential aides.
Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama repeatedly took flak for photos in which he appeared to be relaxing.
Critics also chastised Obama for unbuttoning the previous Oval Office dress code that called for a suit jacket and a tie.
The image of Conway trended widely on social media, with several Twitter users berating her for what they described as a lack of respect in the Oval Office.
This is not the first time Conway has found herself at the centre of a storm.
She recently came under fire for plugging the fashion brand of the president’s daughter. The head of the US Office of Government Ethics urged the White House to investigate Conway after the incident, saying she should face disciplinary action.
She also famously coined the term “alternative facts” and referred to a “Bowling Green massacre” — which never happened — during an interview.
Conway later tweeted that she meant to say “Bowling Green terrorists” — referring to two Iraqi men who were indicted in 2011 for trying to send money and weapons to Al-Qaeda, and using improvised explosive devices against US soldiers in Iraq.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-aide-conway-draws-ire-kneeling-white-house-063814649.html
This place is home to her.
OBVIOUSLY………………………………
shes probably done more than kneel on that very same couch .. she looks very familiar with that furniture
That entire office , you could probably get a staph infection or AIDS in
between Clinton , Bush, and Obama , you couldn’t get me to sit or touch anything in there
could you imagine what a black light would expose?
eww gross
Now there’s a righteous comment. 🙂
No mention of a certain ni…..er called obummer with his feet up on the peoples desktop. Nitpicking in the extreme
i been called names all day for saying she was disrespectful, everyone says remember obama putting feet on desk, and i say i don’t do tit for tat, i called him names for doing so. Its one thing to be w the President and do it working late or something but not in the day especially w a group of people.
It’s a f#@king couch. It is not made holy by where it is, and considering that it is sitting in a room full of traitors, it is even less relevant.
My God, people, we are in the throes of tyranny, this is what you are talking about?
ditto that
(Laughing!) …………. Who the hell cares!??
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I agree with you Henry. Yet, this for me a kind of weird.I’m not saying wrong, but Obviously there are professionals taking pictures of this event. There is no telling (literally) of the things that have gone on in this room.
When I look at this picture with so many of the guests there looking at her, looking at her phone, I tend to guess that she drew a lot of attention.
Her demeanor appears to be more like a young child who has no idea about decorum.
But, if the big picture of history of most if not all past presidents who have soiled the honor of The Office of the President were put on parade, this story wouldn’t be a bleep on the corruption radar screen. Yet, the picture as a whole has a white guy with a white woman sandwiched in between a bunch of black guys. Everyday is some kind of new circus act story.
Couldn’t drag herself away from that electronic leash long enough for a photo op.
That, or she’s got a big-@ss dildo stuck in that cushion crack, and a full zipper dress.