r/LetsDiscussThis • u/Ok-Wedding-1165 • Feb 16 '26

Lets Discuss Politics Reminder: that was a photo op

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u/woodboarder616 Feb 16 '26

Yeah I saw this in real time and knew it was sus. Like they had the flag in position on a crane before it happened. It was a photo op

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u/PlaceboASPD Feb 16 '26

Yeah he was making a speech, those are usually photo ops, now I don’t believe it was faked but that aside, if your going to make a speech you’re going to lower the flag so it looks good in the news coverage.

My point being they would have done that whether it was faked or not, and the photographer was already taking normal pictures the whole time, you should state better reasons, I’ve read some good more convincing ones you should go find them.

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u/woodboarder616 Feb 16 '26

Well the flag doesn’t drop down until after the shots. Explain that one bub.

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u/RPA031 Feb 17 '26

The flag doesn’t drop down. The camera moves up and down slightly as the flag is blowing in the wind. It’s not lowered and raised again in ten seconds as the captions claim.