Trump tweets a rugged action photo of himself in a "Christmas Eve briefing."

[Miles Archer]

"OK...I'll have two Double Quarter Pounders with Cheese...two Super-Sized Fries...extra large Diet Coke...make that two...two Apple Pies...now get your ass MOVING!"

Christmas Eve briefing with my team working on North Korea – Progress being made. Looking forward to my next summit with Chairman Kim!

[Canoe52]

1. "How's this for a pretending to read pose?"

[TheBlackAdder]

17. He's still stuck on the first sentence of the Gen. Mattis resignation letter!

[at140]

2. I love that Desk!

I understand JFK used it before.

[TheBlackAdder]

18. Monroe used it too. (No, not the 5th president.)

Bazinga!

[John Fante]

20. A lot of debriefings went on there. So. I've heard.

[Jim Lane]

28. Yes, JFK and several other Presidents have used it.

It's known as the Resolute desk. It even has its own Wikipedia article; here's the introductory section:

The Resolute desk is a nineteenth-century partners' desk used by several presidents of the United States in the White House Oval Office as the Oval Office desk. It was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the English oak timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship HMS Resolute. Franklin Roosevelt requested the addition of a door with the presidential seal to conceal his leg braces.[1] Many presidents since Hayes, except Johnson, Nixon, and Ford, have used the desk at various locations in the White House.[2]

The desk was removed from the White House only once, after the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, when President Lyndon Johnson allowed it to go on a traveling exhibition with the Kennedy Presidential Library. After this it was put on display in the Smithsonian Institution.

President Jimmy Carter brought the desk back to the Oval Office in 1977, where Presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump have used it. George H. W. Bush used the C&O desk in the Oval Office, but kept the Resolute desk in the White House.

[Brother Buzz]

29. John John discovered the secret partition door FDR had added to hide his paralyzed legs

http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/west-wing/resolute-desk.htm

[RockRaven]

3. Pathetic staged photo... if he were really reading, he'd be wearing his reading glasses.

We all know this, he knows we all know, and he insists on lying about it anyway.

[lunatica]

6. He holds his head as if he had reading glasses on.

Big tell.

[NastyRiffraff]

4. What's propping up that (blank?) piece of paper

when Trump is obviously nodding off?

[Docreed2003]

5. So that briefing consists of

Reading one page at a time being handed to him by a syncophant, only today we can't see the page to see if there's anything actually printed on the pages, and there seems to be an unopened newspaper on his desk....nice. Looks like he's working real hard, almost like a real boy, gawd his incessant need for praise is just pathetic and infuriating

[Sneederbunk]

7. Lincoln is weeping.

[dameatball]

26. That's what I saw...not weeping...just looking at him funny.

[ProudLib72]

8. Is that woman wearing festive holiday camoflage?

I guess I would want to hide myself as much as possible if I had to be around Rump.

[dchill]

11. What woman? I don't see any woman...

Must be some really good camouflage!

[ProudLib72]

12. She's right by the...

Wait, now I can't find her again!

[dchill]

14. Stay still and wait.

She'll move again.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Go spend it with your kid, you

pathetic fucking loser.

[spanone]

10. Let tiny tim go home to his family mr scrooge..it's Christmas Eve you evil shit.

[nuxvomica]

13. What a terrible photograph!

All we see of the person sitting in front of the desk is one leg and they are cut out so we can get a full view of Trump's chair. Is Clint Eastwood the White House photographer now?

[Miles Archer]

16. I don't think it was a matter of capturing the chair...I think they wanted to show the two flags.

...because, well...never mind.

[Doreen]

33. All I see in that picture is a thought bubble from trumps head

saying, "you are so screwed so screwed."

[Andy823]

15. Wait a minute

He tweeted he was "all alone" at the WH, there are at least 3 people in the room, you don't suppose he actually "lied" to us?

[TexasTowelie]

19. Where's the computer?

It isn't work if you aren't at the keyboard and staring at the screen.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

21. who's going to clean the stains off that chair?

[BritVic]

22. He was itching to get out on the course today.

Even mentioned it in one of his crazy tweets (he always projects) Heaven knows what he's going to be like tomorrow - a nothing news day on TV - presumably his aides will be finding him more Post Offices to rename so it gives the impression he's making a huge sacrifice and working on a holiday. I can't imagine this man having a regular family Christmas.

[kairos12]

23. Which of those phones is Putin listening in on?

[FSogol]

31. All of them! And Obama is watching via the microwave. N/t

[Solly Mack]

24. He is such a phony.

Big bag of boring.

[Liberal In Texas]

25. What in impressive lot of work on the desk. A newspaper and one sheet of paper he's trying to read.

No computer, but wonder what's in the wood box.

[Lefta Dissenter]

27. Sharpies. (N/t)

[AJT]

30. Didn't Kim just say that nothing will change until the US pulls

all of its troops out of South Korea and Japan?

[Sanity Claws]

32. His team is so important that he doesn't identify who they are

and the photograph shows only legs of the third person.

[Arkansas Granny]

34. It appears that he is holding a single piece of paper with what looks like

a newspaper lying on his desk. Is anything written on the paper he's holding. Did his team interrupt him while he was reading the comics?

[TheCowsCameHome]

35. ...a subpoena from ---- Robert Mueller!

Hey, I can dream, can't I?

[Arkansas Granny]

36. That would be the best Christmas present this year!

🎁🎄🎅