Possibly the biggest hack of that picture could be its caption, that is, that the that helicopter was (perhaps errantly or manipulatively) called “Marine One.”
Just as a president’s specially-outfitted 747 will be given the call-sign “Air Force One” only when the current president is aboard, the same holds for “Marine One.” If it’s not the current president aboard, the same physical helicopter that in other circumstances was or will be designated “Marine One,” would not be so designated for a different flight leg.
Unless we have access to the air traffic controllers’ record(ing)s from that flight with Joe Biden aboard, we probably wouldn’t really know what designation military and civilian air traffic control used for that flight.
We can’t say the military has accorded Biden presidential honors without knowing whether the controllers have been using the “Marine One” call-sign for a Marine helicopter while he was on it. As with the election, just because the media declared Joe the winner, official reality wouldn’t be changed just by the media designating that craft “Marine One.”
As yet, we have no confirmed case of the military giving Joe presidential-only honors, do we? I’m just not aware of it.
:: only when the current president is aboard, the same holds for “Marine One.” ::
And, technically, Biden was not on the helo
And, the helo was not in the air.
It was just Joe standing on the ground near the helo.