A photo the White House complained about had been published only once, but it is now being widely circulated.
The photo, which features Leavitt dressed like a Pilgrim holding her young son near “Waddle,” the president’s pardoned turkey, appeared to have been hardly circulated before it was removed from the database.
The image has now taken on a new life as it has been widely shared by notable figures.@AriCohen/X “It ran only in a Swiss newspaper. It would be a shame if you retweeted and Streisanded it,” former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann“This is the picture the White House didn’t want you to see. You know what to do,” political consultant Kaivan Shroff posted.A screen grab from Tages-Anzeiger of the photo of Karoline Leavitt with her son Nicholas, and Waddle, one of the National Thanksgiving turkeys, in the press briefing room of the White House, prior to the turkey pardoning ceremony with President Donald Trump on Nov. 25, 2025, in Washington, DC., before being pulled by the AFP.Grégoire Lemarchand, the director of brand and communications at AFP, confirmed that the agency was “made aware” that the White House did not like the photo, but noted that the decision to pull it was “an internal editorial one, based on our standard quality and selection criteria.” But Status’ Oliver Darcy pointed out that the White House does not need to issue a formal demand to remove a photo.The Daily Beast reached out to the White House and Caballero-Reynolds for comment.Cabinet officials flipped out at Vanity Fair over what they viewed as unflattering photos in their magazine spread last year. Some of the images included a zoomed-in picture of Leavitt showing off what appears to beon her upper lip, and a black and white image of Marco Rubio so up close his pores are visible. Much attention has been paid to Karoline Leavitt’s mouth after a portrait in the Vanity Fair article revealed injection sites in her top lip.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth banned photographers from the Pentagon for a briefing on the Iran war after he complained about ugly photos they took of him.The ever camera-conscious President Donald Trump has also reportedly called out photographers when they capture images he doesn’t like, especially when they end up“He’s told me about pictures that he hasn’t liked of mine on a couple of different occasions,” New York Times photographer Doug Mills
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