Michael Gove mocked for Donald Trump “thumbs up” photo
Thumbs up! I’ve just met Donald Trump!
Michael Gove’s lickspittle interview with the president-elect of the United States culminated in the pair posing for the camera, thumbs aloft, in front of a copy of Playboy magazine.
Trump appears to prefer the thumbs up to a good old-fashioned handshake. Well, he DID say he was a germaphobe.
As if Gove – Brexiteer cheerleader and failed Tory leadership wannabe – wasn’t going to get enough abuse on Twitter anyway, the thumbs up picture sealed it.
BREAKING: Nerds and bullies announce historic peace deal. pic.twitter.com/lm3tKtM2Pt
— joe (@mutablejoe) January 16, 2017
When you’re rich and you’ve successfully tricked two countries into completely fucking themselves by blaming other people pic.twitter.com/GF1joecf12 — TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) January 15, 2017
At last. Someone with shorter fingers. pic.twitter.com/udHdl33nhL
— Jo Maugham QC (@JolyonMaugham) January 15, 2017
Was told that you look a fool if you do thumbs up in a photo.Turns out if you do it next to a racist who hates women you look even worse https://t.co/RUOtqSijmE
— Jess Phillips MP (@jessphillips) January 16, 2017
Want to feel old? This is what Erasure look like today. pic.twitter.com/AAzWCb0wxa — David Whitley (@mrdavidwhitley) January 15, 2017
Gove's interview with Trump may be an awful piece of journalism, but it's a genre-defining piece of erotic submissive fiction
— Ahir Shah (@AhirShah) January 15, 2017
One anagram for friends "Donald Trump and Michael Gove" is "Hmm, A Advanced Polluted Groin." pic.twitter.com/iHzWH0C7H5
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) January 16, 2017
Unfortunately for Gove he didn’t get to pose like Nigel Farage with Trump in a gold lift. But was he aware of what was actually behind him? (Clue – it’s over Gove’s left shoulder).
Gove on @BBCBreakfast – ‘Trump has rolled back on his sexist views’. I’d believe it more if he didn’t have a framed jazz mag behind him pic.twitter.com/HcE4uX02d6
— Graham Johns (@GrahamDJohns) January 16, 2017
@MichaelPDeacon @JananGanesh If you were wondering about the tastefully positioned “Playboy” cover here it is: pic.twitter.com/qKuzqPAF1Y — Paddy Briggs (@PaddyBriggs) January 15, 2017
Others said the pair looked eerily familiar.
@MichaelPDeacon pic.twitter.com/RV4Ryqxdy6
— Chris Lewis (@ceekayell) January 15, 2017
As for the interview itself, it was a “stream of hot nonsense”, according to @SimonNRicketts who said he “talks like a teenager at the dinner table who’s texting at the same time”.
You can see what he means.
The Trump interview, by Michael Gove, in The Times. His quotes are a stream of hot nonsense. pic.twitter.com/oesmO5IhQr
— SimonNRicketts (@SimonNRicketts) January 15, 2017
But one person thought it was a great interview and had no complaints about the picture.
Great interview in The Times with @realDonaldTrump. No surprises but serious opportunities. — Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) 16 January 2017
