For all of his cries of “fake news,” the image-obsessed president has singled out veteran photographer Doug Mills for his work—and can’t keep quiet about him
The great media disruption comes for theThe photos Craighead and other government photographers take of Trump, and that get released to the public, have sometimes had to be reviewed by the president himself, rather than the more typical review by a staffer, according to two former Trump White House aides. When fans ask for photos with Trump at his properties, or when he’s dining with friends, one of his ex-aides explains, “He’s never going to tell you no. But he will say, ‘Take it again.
Mills—a wire-style shooter focused on the president’s day-to-day activities, rather than portrait shoots—doesn’t find the president to be in the least controlling, though he and others note that Trump allows photographers to spend only a few minutes in the buffer zone during speeches, while his predecessors opened the area for the entirety of their time at the podium. Overall, Mills says Trump’s unscripted presidency has given him a wealth of material.
George H.W. Bush affectionately called his pack of shooters the “photo dogs” and hosted White House barbecues for them. His son, George W., liked to pick out photographers and make fun of their outfits. During his first campaign, recalls one of his former special assistants, Greg Jenkins, the candidate walked to the back of the plane to hang out with the photographers, so long as they agreed not to put their cameras in his face.
Mills was in the same briefing room chair a few years later when the door opened on a Friday afternoon, and in walked George H.W. Bush. “Hey Doug, you know how to play horseshoes?” Bush asked. Mills fetched another photographer and joined the president at his horseshoe pit outside the Oval. Mills and Bush would later go running together in Kennebunkport, Maine, and Mills became a regular in the president’s horseshoe game.
Preparing to photograph President Trump's departure on Marine One, Mills makes his way to the South Lawn of the White House. | Pete Marovich for Politico Magazine
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