The Times newspaper in London ran a front page on Tuesday that quickly went viral for its formatting of two unrelated stories.
What We Know:
- Editors at the newspaper positioned a photograph and story about a dancing cockatoo with yellow hair who dances to the Backstreet Boys, alongside a story about Trump no longer wanting to have anything to do with the British ambassador to the U.S., Sir Kim Darroch.
- Darroch described Donald Trump as “inept”, “insecure” and “incompetent” in a series of memos written from 2017 that got leaked. Trump fired back at Darroch via Twitter, calling the ambassador “wacky”, “a very stupid guy”, and a “pompous fool.”
- It’s believed that the newspaper, which is owned by Republican Rupert Murdoch, chose the layout of their front page as a subtle way to fire back at Trump.
- Coincidence maybe? People on Twitter beg to differ and found the editor’s use of juxtapositioning hilarious.
A+ trolling… https://t.co/mufVj0IoBF
— Keerthik Sasidharan (@KS1729) July 9, 2019
#TomorrowsPaperToday Someone give the Times front page layout editor a big bonus for this headline/picture combination #Trump #ambassador 🤣 pic.twitter.com/vhEXIEmBlN
— Julian Shea (@juliansheasport) July 8, 2019
What are the odds that the Times staff have been sat on that parrot story for ages, waiting for a Trump headline to run the picture alongside? https://t.co/FGOGx1ZupN
— Peter Sketch (@petersketch) July 8, 2019
Potus wants a cracker… https://t.co/eAzWVgKEJA
— Garth Gilmour (@GarthGilmour) July 9, 2019
Whether it was intentional or not, this front page is one for the books.
