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Donald Trump's Tennis Photo refers to a photograph of United States President Donald Trump playing tennis while wearing a pair of white, semi-translucent shorts. The photo inspired parody illustrations and numerous photoshops after it began circulating online in mid-2017.

Origin

On February 13th, 2000, Donald Trump was photographed playing tennis at Mar-A-Lago while wearing an all-white outfit, with one photograph prominently featuring his backside in which the outline of his underwear can be seen showing through his shorts (shown below). The photograph remained relatively unknown until June 22nd, 2017, when Deadspin^[2] posted it in an article titled "This Shitty Tennis Player Would One Day Be President."

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Also on June 22nd, 2017, Redditor santorumsandwich invited viewers to post photoshops of the image on /r/photoshopbattles,^[5] where it gained over 1,300 points (85% uvpoted) and 170 comments in one week.

That day, Redditor NachoLawbre posted the photo to /r/pics, where it gathered upwards of 38,000 points (69% upvoted) and 4,800 comments within six days. On June 24th, Redditor GasCucksMemeWarNow submitted the photo with the caption "Ain't no one vote Trump for his policies" to /r/dankmemes^[3] (shown below, left). On June 25th, Instagram^[4] user adam.the.creator posted a photoshop of a selfie taken by civil rights activist Al Sharpton edited with Trump's tennis photo (shown below, right). Within four days, the post garnered upwards of 74,000 likes.

On June 26th, YouTuber Aidy posted a Ditty video using the photo, including lyrics calling Trump "One Thicc Bih" (shown below).

On June 28th, Shadman tweeted a parody illustration depicting Trump as a female anime character (shown below). Within 24 hours, the tweet gathered upwards of 5,800 likes and 990 retweets.

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