Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, A candidate for the potential Democratic presidential in 2028 was ribbed online for seeking to hide his face at a meeting with President Donald Trump at the Oval Office.
Whitmer has been temporarily seen protecting his face from cameras in the oval office by holding a file, according to a photo of The New York Times.
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer was seen covering his face in the Washington oval office on Wednesday April 9, 2025. (Eric Lee / The New York Times)
Later, she lowered the file, while the president spoke to the press and encouraged Whitmer to comment as well. The Democratic Governor, Who faced Trump during his first mandate concerning his COVVI-19 locking policies, met the president to discuss the recovery of an ice storm which had an impact on thousands of michiganders, financing of the base of the National Guard of Selfridge Air near Detroit, protection of the Great Lakes and the Automobile Industry.
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Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer made gestures to President Donald Trump in the White House Oval Office on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 in Washington. (Pool via AP)
Whitmer, joined by the president of Michigan State House, Matt Hall and several secretaries of the cabinet, moved away from Trump when he signed decrees on Wednesday.
“We are honored to have Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan, Grand State of Michigan. And, she was – she really did a great job. And a very good person,” said Trump.
Whitmer told journalists thereafter that she thought she was entering the oval office for a head-to-face meeting with the president and that she had been taken by the press conference.
His face office was ridiculed online.
“Whitmer Covering your face is the perfect metaphor for the Democratic Party, “wrote a user.
Another X user said: “Gretchen Whitmer hiding behind his files in the White House is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. This is what my 2 year old child does.”
Michigan president Matt Hall, and the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, speak with President Donald Trump at the Oval Office on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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“Was it the highlight in the coffin of political aspirations by Gretchen Whitmer?” A third user wrote.
Some users joked by saying that Whitmer was “embarrassed” to be photographed with Trump but had no shame in placing a dorito in the mouth of a podcaster in an article on social networks in 2024 that criticisms said made fun of a Christian sacrament.
The photo showed Whitmer hiding his face while being between the assistant of Trump Natalie Harpe and the assistant assistant of the president and director of the White House of the Intergovernmental Affairs Bureau.
Myer shared the photo on X, writing: “#NewProfilepic.”
Whitmer was in Washington to pronounce an address “Build, America, Build” in which she called for bipartite cooperation to strengthen American manufacturing. She was in the White House for her second meeting with Trump in less than a month, this time to talk about the prices that had to disproportionate Michigan disproportionately, whose economy is closely linked to an automotive industry dependent on trade with Canada, Mexico and other countries.
In his speech on Wednesday, which came before Trump announced that he was stopping prices in most nations, except China, Whitmer stressed Domains of agreement with Trump on the prices but criticized the way they had been implemented.
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer considers that President Donald Trump signs executive decrees in the White House Oval Office on April 9, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)
“I understand the motivation behind the prices, and I can tell you, here is where President Trump and I agree. We have to do more things in America,” said Whitmer, before adding: “I am not against prices, but it is a frank tool.”
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Whitmer’s approach contrasts strongly with that of other high -level Democratic governors, many of whom are also considered as potential contenders for the presidential appointment in 2028 of the party. But Whitmer faces a more difficult political landscape than leaders like the governor of Illinois JB Pritzker or California Gov. Gavin Newsom As it represents a state with a divided state legislature and it opted for Trump in two of the last three elections.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.