From SCOTUS to NATO, the Pix Were Lit: Our Visual Roundup of the Week

Leading @Reuters #TrumpUK pix, an editorial photo perfect as they come. After dismembering #TheresaMay in @TheSun, contradicts himself at Chequers. Read “I’ll do whatever I want behind your back.” Then the man grip amplifies she’s doddering (politically). And, in his colors! pic.twitter.com/W2FT5BUaNj

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 13, 2018

The Queen. The flyover. The Baby Blimp. Strzrok and the RussiaGate battle. Kavanaugh and the SCOTUS battle. Manafort. What a visual week. And with all the provocative pictures Trump’s trip has bestowed, he hasn’t even met with Putin yet.

Gotta love the sign behind the protest-fortified US Ambassador’s residence in #London. #TrumpUKVisit @GettyImages pic.twitter.com/wJvyFPAN9N

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 13, 2018

Can’t tell which is more telling, the walking in front of her at the beginning or, at the end, the “after you.” #Themanwhotakesnocues https://t.co/cXtnPBWD9z

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 13, 2018

And the week’s winner for composition: Trump 3 ways. @AP_Images via @politico #TrumpProtest #TrumpUK #TrumpBabyBlimp #protest pic.twitter.com/cD4xSggsLL

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 14, 2018

While word and broadcast media treat Trump largely in normal terms, the photo press, given the nature and license of imagery, has not been so bound. For that aberrant presser, @dougmills, who has been stellar in Brussels, applies the McCarthy filter. https://t.co/cnlkNxcwPK

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 12, 2018

The pic’s gone viral as a snapshot of Trump’s psychology, the oppositionality. That he wouldn’t see a screaming military event action in front of his face though–when the rest of the western leaders share a focus on the flyby–is just as distressing politically. @GettyImages pic.twitter.com/WgbmYG3bzk

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 11, 2018

There are walls and there are walls as polarization reaches new heights. #StrzokHearing #mueller #RussianCollusion 📷 @evanvucci pic.twitter.com/wRz3IWRJKC

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 12, 2018

“Kavanaugh, Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, was introduced less as a jurist than as an American dad.” —@poniewozik. (IOW, counter-programming the “strict father model.”) 📸: @somogettynews via @CNN pic.twitter.com/9LtAcdfbeL

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 10, 2018

@NYTimes photo team in overdrive. The Ambiguous SMC. @SenatorCollins #BrettKavanaugh @tom__brenner pic.twitter.com/3LAzoPfJux

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 10, 2018

Anticipating hours upon hours of “that was then, this is now.” Counsel aide #BrettKavanaugh with Ken Starr in Solicitor General’s office during Whitewater. Pic by the great @Kennerly @GettyImages #BrettsLongTail pic.twitter.com/NA4qpSFFap

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 10, 2018

Ha! Never saw #SCOTUS from this gallery view. But with the curtain and chairs, it goes perfectly with tonight’s unveil. It’s like the institution reduced to a nightclub act. 📷 @petersonpixs pic.twitter.com/Nd92VwadSX

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 9, 2018

Sans private bath, telly, desk—not to mention, the civvies. https://t.co/ujaKlqgkMH

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 12, 2018

Emphasis on how many sitting members of Congress could share photos like these. https://t.co/bXevkSVcNy

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 14, 2018

#Climate threatens the #California dream: the theme of so many firestorm pix last year. As this year’s season gets going, picking up where we left off? @pfal @reuterspictures pic.twitter.com/6QHbjGMd8i

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 12, 2018

When the game comes to you, yep. #WorldCup2018 #photography https://t.co/2Ovn4iM9V2

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 12, 2018

Photo: Hannah McKay/REUTERS Caption: Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May and President Donald Trump walk away after holding a joint news conference at Chequers, the official country residence of the Prime Minister, near Aylesbury, Britain.