When Rhode Island’s teacher of the year took his turn in front of the camera with President Trump, he struck a pose some took as an act of defiance:
Nikos Giannopoulos cocked his head ever so slightly away from the president, toward a black lace fan he’d brought with him. He wore a rainbow pin on his lapel, a ring through his nose and a gold anchor around his neck.
Read more here: A teacher’s decision to be “visibly queer” in his photo with President Trump.
Oh, is my disabled head tilt why I read as queer to some people?
I think the should-hip alignment and the fan are doing the heavy lifting here
This seems like another of those “HA! TRUMP BTFO!” events that… doesn’t really get what would BTFO Trump specifically. Trump doesn’t care about this.
Pence does, the other Republicans do, and as a “HA! PENCE TROLLD!” it would work if Pence were there, or a lot of the other Republicans, but not here.