Ex-Obama Photographer Shades Trump’s Escalator Snafu With Easy Flashback

Former Obama White House chief photographer Pete Souza shaded President Donald Trump ― as he so usually did throughout Trump’s first time period ― with a pictorial blast from former President Barack Obama’s previous look on the United Nations.

After Trump was forced to walk on Tuesday when an escalator on the U.N. stopped with him and first woman Melania Trump on it, Souza posted on Instagram a 2015 picture of Obama on what seemed to be the identical set of escalators.

Souza paired the snap with an excerpt from Obama’s 2015 U.N. tackle hailing the “system of international rules and norms,” which Trump, along with his rhetoric and insurance policies, is now risking tearing down, a decade in the past:

“It is this international order that has underwritten unparalleled advances in human liberty and prosperity. It is this collective endeavor that’s brought about diplomatic cooperation between the world’s major powers, and buttressed a global economy that has lifted more than a billion people from poverty. It is these international principles that helped constrain bigger countries from imposing our will on smaller ones, and advanced the emergence of democracy and development and individual liberty on every continent.”

Souza, who additionally served in Republican Ronald Reagan’s administration, later mocked Trump’s complaints concerning the escalator second, writing: “I guess walking a few steps is too challenging for an authoritarian.”