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Donald Trump's Rogue One Air Force One Photo refers to a photograph of President Donald Trump talking to reporters as the 2016 filmRogue One: A Star Wars Story played behind him.

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On April 6th, 2017, President Donald Trump took questions from reporters aboard Air Force One. According to reports,^[1] before the President entered the press cabin, reporters who had been watching the film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. As Trump entered and began answering questions, the film continued to play in the background.

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That day, Twitter user @alex_mallin^[2] tweeted an image of Trump talking in front of the TV playing Rogue One with the caption: "Reporters forgot to turn off Star Wars: Rogue One before @POTUS came back to visit the press cabin." The tweet received more than 1,320 retweets and 3,000 likes.

Another tweet from @GideonResnick^[3] (shown below), which said, "crazy shot on air force one from reuters," received more than 1,900 retweet and 4,200 likes.

Shortly after the tweets were published, users began photoshopping the picture on Twitter.

Several outlets covered the photograph, including Mashable, The New York Daily News^[5], Gizmodo^[6],

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