[Royal Wulff]

The original White House photo, as released, was run through Photoshop for some reason. See my post above.

[Clive]

This deserves a thread of its own to explicitly discuss evidence that this was a photoshopped picture.

[visualops]

It doesn't really matter if it was run through photoshop. The EXIF data however was purposefully removed. As you can see, the other AF1 stock photos have EXIF data albeit limited. What it says though is that the photo was either run through a filter or just the EXIF data removed. It doesn't look like it was run through a filter or enhanced which is actually odd because it is a lousy shot. Now the photo up at the defense link somebody did enhance that copy.
About the exhaust it's hard to tell because they are over water but I do not see any noticeable distortion or blurring of the water surface wave pattern.

The big problem with this image is that it is terrible!! You don't take AF1 glamour shots through a window! This is an amateur photo!!
The flight was so obviously not for the stated purpose and they think we are all idiots!