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Obama and Trump Shaking Hands refers to dozens of photoshops of an image of President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shaking hands in the Oval Office following Trump's win in the 2016 United States Presidential Election.

Origin

On November 10th, 2016, Donald Trump visited the Oval Office to talk to Barack Obama about foreign and domestic policy. Following their meeting, they met with reporters for a brief conference and photo opportunity. That neither of the men appeared to be happy while they shook hands sparked a series of jokes on Twitter and Reddit. One tweet by @coolmcjazz^[2] posted a photo of the meeting with the caption "When you see hatred and racism, stare in it the face. It probably won't have the courage to look back." It gained over 73,000 retweets and 126,000 favorites in two days.

Spread

One image, shown below, sparked a photoshop battle on Reddit started by discovicke the next morning.^[1] The post gained over 6,100 points in less than a day.

Uproxx^[3] covered the popularity of the thread later that morning, including many of the most upvoted photoshops. Bustle^[4] posted some of the most popular jokes that appeared on Twitter, as did Teen Vogue.^[5]

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