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This One Photo Of Trump's Charlottesville Speech Says Everything You Want To Scream

by Kelly Tunney
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On Tuesday, President Trump held a press conference at Trump Tower in New York to talk about infrastructure. But his remarks turned to the weekend's protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists gathered to protest the removal of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's statue, and clashed with counter-protesters in the town. One photo that encapsulated the president's third statement on Charlottesville shows White House Chief of Staff John Kelly hanging his head while Trump spoke about the violence on "both sides," called out the "alt-left," and once again failed to condemn white nationalists.

Photos of Trump's chief of staff listening to the president's comments with his head hung low circulated online shortly after the event.

Among his comments referring to "many sides," Trump specifically pointed to the "alt-left" supposedly inciting violence in Charlottesville:

What about the fact [that] they came charging, they came charging with clubs in the hand, swinging clubs. Do they have any problem? I think they do. ... You had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. And nobody wants to say that, but I'll say it right now.

The photo of Kelly staring at the ground, looking very uncomfortable, as Trump gave his speech did not go unnoticed by Twitter, which quickly did what Twitter does and turned the situation into a meme.

But some people also questioned about why Kelly hasn't brought order to the White House, as many thought his appointment to the chief of staff position would accomplish.

"Wow, I feel ever so much better now that John Kelly has brought discipline and order to the administration," Anna Maltese quipped. "John Kelly has really changed things up in the White House!" CNN's Chris Cillizza said.

Others called for Kelly to resign out of conscience.

Here's a look at what Twitter had to say about Kelly and the photo that has already become representative of Trump's administration.

I Feel So Much Better

There's Always Time For An Arrested Development Reference

A Live Look

In His Office

Watching The Dumpster Fire

A Brief Rundown

How Long Can He Take It?

It's A Bad Day

He's "Chaos-Trump"

Where Kelly will go from here is up in the air. He could work hard to turn Trump around, but as Twitter pointed out, that may be an impossible task. He could resign. Or he could get fired, as Trump has proven to do when he feels embarrassed by a staffer.

The options are endless, but the question is whether any of them are any good.