Is Trump looking for who his wife Melania voted for? The photo that went viral
Just a second, a look, and the photographers' timely camera.
The Republican candidate, Donald Trump, arrived in the morning at the polling place on the east side of Manhattan, New York, to fulfill his civic right.
He did it accompanied by his wife, Melania, in addition to his daughter Ivanka and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
And when he entered his cubicle, the media cameras present there captured an image that he immediately shot on social networks.
There is the candidate, surreptitiously glancing over his booth booth at the screen of his wife, who was voting at the same time to his left.
To confirm that she is voting for him?
It was barely a second and it is likely that the candidate's intentions were not to control Melania.
In part, because broadcasting the vote or monitoring the vote of others is illegal in the United States.
But users of Twitter and US digital media were not spared ironies by the snapshot.
"This picture is everything," Amanda Marcotte, a political columnist for Salon.com, wrote on her account and was retweeted about 8,000 times in less than two hours.
"It's like when you didn't study the entire semester but you know this exam is the only one that counts towards your final grade," BuzzFeed joked.
"Hell. She really is voting for McMullin," wrote Nicholas Thompson of the New Yorker, as if she were reading Trump's mind and alluding to the fifth candidate in the presidential race.
"Hi 911. I want to report a case of illegal voting supervision," joked Jason O. Gilbert of the satirical site Fusion.
"When you trust that your wife will vote for you, but not really ...", he pointed on the part of him @Gabbienain.
Fraud ghosts
For the Al-Jazeera network, the image could become "one of the most iconic of the night" if things do not go as Trump wishes.
The truth is that the Republican praised the democratic system of his country in his passage through the voting center, around 11 in the morning local time.
"It is a great honor, a tremendous honor," said the man who hopes his fellow citizens have put his name on the ballot to get to the White House, after a fierce and fierce campaign against the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton. .
When asked if he fears fraud, he pointed out that "we are always worried about it."
And he defended his campaign slogan, "Let's make America great again."
"That's what it's about. It's the only thing this is all about," he noted.
