Trump aide Conway draws ire for kneeling on White House sofa

Yahoo News ^ | Feb. 28, 2017 | Maggy Donaldson

[Rennes Templar]

Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump's senior adviser Kellyanne Conway has come under fire after a picture of her casually kneeling on a couch in the Oval Office was widely shared on social media.

In an image captured by an AFP photographer, Conway appears on the couch with her shoes on as Trump poses for a photo with leaders of historically black colleges and universities.

Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens was among those taking aim at Conway, suggesting that aides under previous administrations would have elicited even greater outcry.

"If Rice or Jarrett had sat like this in Oval Office, conservatives would have screamed themselves hoarse for weeks. Now we own trashy," he wrote, referring to previous presidential aides.

Trump's predecessor Barack Obama repeatedly took flak for photos in which he appeared to be relaxing.

Critics also chastised Obama for unbuttoning the previous Oval Office dress code that called for a suit jacket and a tie.

The image of Conway trended widely on social media, with several Twitter users berating her for what they described as a lack of respect in the Oval Office.

[Rennes Templar]

Of course, the MSM are dweebs like Obama.

[petitfour]

No mention of the Clinton habits in the same room.

[AndyTheBear]

Yahoo news seems so drunk with male privillage they are now oppressing womens choice of posture while sitting. We can infer from this yahoo news hates all women and wants to return to the time they were stuck back at home both barefoot and pregnant...ok not really. They only hate conservative women

[bigbob]

Good because it gives excuse to re-post all these pix.

I don’t see anything wrong with Kellyanne’s behavior, although I have to admit it there had been a pic of Moochele roosting on the Oval furniture with her heavy hams in the air, I and everyone else on here would have been outraged /s

[refermech]

Saw the pic, have always wondered why women sit on their feet?

[hsmomx3]

At least she wasn’t in a position like others have been in years past. Geeze, give us a break.

[rellimpank]

—that was the first thing that came to my mind , too—

[econjack]

POS Obama used the Resolute desk as a foot rest and nothing was said.

Of course that's all right. He a social clod.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

What's wrong with kneeling in front of the couch in the Oval Office?

[Bayan]

She was trying to take a picture from a particular angle, another fake story.

[papertyger]

"If Rice or Jarrett had sat like this in Oval Office, conservatives would have screamed themselves hoarse for weeks....

And you'd have ignored it just like we are now.

I guess you haven't noticed what "political writers" call conservative, and what American's with no broadcast voice call conservatives are two different things.

[jokemoke]

Considering what happened between President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office, NOW the Democrats are appalled. Unbelievable!

[CodeJockey]

I thought she looked kinda hot.

Ditto

[xzins]

Seemed a really normal female way of sitting with her feet underneath her on a couch. Gotta remember, though, that the dems don’t have real women or real men. Just actors.

[Gaffer]

They have no plan, no prescription for improvement of our lives, nor any semblance of any value added for our heirs. They are clueless and lashing out because their little psyches got damaged by the facts.

[pfflier]

I wonder where all these wonks were when Monica was kneeling in the oval office.

[Steve_Seattle]

"How can you tell if she has her shoes on? I think it would be very uncomfortable to sit like that with shoes on."

You can't tell from the only picture that I've seen. Maybe someone who was there knows that she was wearing shoes. But, as you say, this is a tempest in a teapot, and all the pics of Obama with his feet on the furniture surely undermine any point the left might have been trying to make.

[ptsal]

Really, the photographers probably did not want her white legs showing in the photo-op with the black caucus.

[Steve_Seattle]

Another purpose of this trivial story is that it gets all the attention, taking the attention away from Trump’s meeting with the black delegation.

[who knows what evil?]

Kellyanne did a GREAT JOB making sure a photo of President Trump meeting with DOZENS of black academic leaders got much wider circulation than it would have otherwise...way to go, Mrs. Conway!