Trump did the most Trump thing posing for a photo with a women’s tennis team

Members of the coaching staff stood alongside players – but Trump stood front and centre (Picture: X)

Members of the University of Georgia’s winning women’s tennis team were blocked by Donald Trump on a platform in a White House photo.

Sharing a snap taken with the eleven members of the Georgia Bulldogs team, who won the NCAA championship this year, Trump towered above the women.

Posing with a thumbs up, members of the university’s coaching staff stood alongside the President, in front of the winning women’s team.

‘What a great job. That’s not easy, winning in tennis,’ Trump said of the team.

‘That’s a tough thing to do. I play tennis a little bit, not quite at that level, not quite, but that’s a great achievement.’

Still, hundreds were quick to point out the bizarre photo positioning, which saw Trump tower over the champions on a platform of his own.

The reaction to the posed photo was swift (Picture: Shutterstock)

‘I can barely see the women… This is embarrassing, and the image is a great visual representation of the Republican Party’s attitudes towards women,’ one wrote.

Another pointed out: ‘Why are the actual players all in the back? Shouldn’t they be promoted first?’

‘I’m so confused. I thought you guys wanted men OUT of women’s sports,’ one person wrote, referencing Trump’s ongoing campaign to remove transgender people from sports.

Shortly after retaking office last year, Trump threatened schools that went against his executive order banning transgender athletes.

Trump waged a war against transgender athletes after retaking office (Picture: AFP)

Trump’s executive order titled Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports directs US agencies to withdraw federal funding to any schools that do not comply.

Surrounded by dozens of young female athletes in uniform and women as he announced it last February, Trump said: ‘From now on, women’s sports will be only for women.’

‘The radical left has waged an all-out campaign to erase the very concept of biological sex and replace it with a militant transgender ideology.’

‘With this executive order the war on women’s sports is over.’

The Republican president alleged that ‘men claiming to be girls’ have ‘stolen’ more than 3,500 victories and ‘invaded’ more than 11,000 competitions designed for women.

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