Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to President Donald Trump, has rankled liberal’s sensibilities by being pictured putting her feet on a couch in the Oval Office. Conway, the first woman to run a winning presidential campaign, was taking a picture of the president with leaders of black colleges and universities.
Kellyanne Conway checks her phone after taking a photo of President Donald Trump and leaders of black universities, colleges in Oval Office pic.twitter.com/MgVhCoJFuC
— AFP news agency (@AFP) February 28, 2017
Kyle Griffin, a producer at MSNBC, tweeted the picture:
Here’s a picture. pic.twitter.com/vYcGjlyyWe
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 28, 2017
He then wondered how conservatives would have reacted had it been an Obama administration official:
Trying to imagine the reaction if any Obama admin. official sat on a couch in the Oval like that.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 28, 2017
Buzzfeed deputy news director Jon Passantino tweeted a different picture of the same “offense”:
Shoes on the couch in the Oval Office pic.twitter.com/h2MXUocEar
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) February 28, 2017
In between tweets of his latest video for GQ, former television personality Keith Olbermann was outraged:
Get your fucking feet off the furniture, @KellyannePolls. This isn’t your home. https://t.co/12DpukKDkS
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) February 28, 2017
Chicago Tribune columnist Rex Huppke demanded answers:
I have so many questions about this photo, but chief among them is why nobody is telling Kellyanne Conway to get her damn feet off the couch pic.twitter.com/tU0CBS36Fe
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) February 28, 2017
Former Heat Street editor and self-proclaimed “conservative” Louise Mensch took the opportunity to make the picture about race:
No class @KellyannePolls – mutton dressed as lamb, feet on the couch, don’t look at African-American leaders, your momma must be ashamed https://t.co/iOPjJSf4Nl
— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) February 28, 2017
.@LouiseMensch @KellyannePolls she was setting up to take a photo you brain-fried groupie pic.twitter.com/tQDVwoTIiV
— The Swog Blog (@TheSwogBlog) February 28, 2017
Others took the opportunity to remind the world of other “shoes on Oval Office furniture in recent years:
And @passantino? pic.twitter.com/zGb2kRGZft
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) February 28, 2017
I’ll take shoes on a couch over this any day. pic.twitter.com/JLE16uQFsF
— Amy Lutz (@amylutz4) February 28, 2017
People are seriously freaking out over Kellyanne’s shoes on a couch.#Derp pic.twitter.com/LaasRmFj4S
— TheFOO (@PolitiBunny) February 28, 2017