‘worth A Thousand Words’: Trump Photo Obscuring Women’s Tennis Team Sparks Backlash

A White House photograph celebrating a champion women’s sports squad has drawn backlash owed to nan positioning of Donald Trump and a group of men, who overshadowed nan female athletes by lining up successful beforehand of them.

The University of Georgia women’s tennis squad was 1 of respective collegiate teams to sojourn nan White House connected Wednesday to people a caller title win. In a photograph shared by property adjutant Margo Martin, a group of six men, including Donald Trump, took up nan beforehand statement of a shape setup, pinch 11 women opinionated successful nan inheritance connected a riser.

“A photograph is worthy a 1000 words …” erstwhile tennis prima Martina Navratilova wrote connected X.

In a video shared by Martin, Trump approaches nan group and shakes nan hands of nan 5 men, but does not do nan aforesaid to nan women.

The Georgia squad shared nan photograph connected its charismatic relationship later successful nan day, pinch nan caption: “An grant to correspond nan University of Georgia astatine nan White House today! @realDonaldTrump acknowledgment for having america out!”

The image drew comparisons to erstwhile instances successful which men person dominated photos astatine events focused connected women’s issues. In 2017, a photograph of Trump signing an anti-abortion bill surrounded by 8 antheral staffers successful nan Oval Office was met pinch outrage.