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Unedited Photo Of Donald Trump At The Border refers to a Getty Images photograph of Donald Trump taken at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona in late August 2024. The image spread widely on Twitter / X as users described it as "unflattering" and made jokes about Trump's expression and multi-toned skin that suggested a poor spray tan.

Origin

On August 22nd, 2024, Getty Images published a photograph taken by Olivier Touron of former President Donald Trump speaking in Arizona at the U.S.-Mexico border.^[1] In the picture, Trump looks aggrieved while the front of his face is significantly tanner than the rest of his head (shown below).

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On August 22nd, 2024, Twitter user Rob DenBleyker,^[2] co-creator of Cyanide and Happiness, tweeted the picture, simply pointing out that it is "unedited." The post gained over 4,000 retweets and 24,000 likes in a day (shown below).

The post led many others online to begin joking about Donald Trump in the image, particularly his multicolored skin tones. For example, on August 22nd, Twitter user @BenMekler^[3] joked, "forgot to brush him with egg before popping him in," gaining over 20 retweets and 430 likes in one day (shown below).

Also that day, Twitter user @BirdRespecter^[4] joked about the image using the Please, My Son, He's Very Sick meme, gaining over 60 retweets and 2,200 likes in the same timeframe (shown below).

Later on August 22nd, 2024, American writer and blogger Parker Molloy^[5] posted on Twitter that they'd logged into Getty to download the image as quickly as possible, gaining over 4,000 retweets and 44,000 likes in roughly a day (shown below).

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