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This Bad Photoshop Makes Us Think Donald Trump’s Campaign Couldn’t Find a Model of Color

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On the same day that Donald Trump was making a lot of us uncomfortable talking about the size of his hands during the Republican Debate, some were wondering whether or not Trump’s team Photoshopped a model so that her skin could appear darker. According to Jezebel, Eric Ming  – the digital director for Donna Edwards’ Senate campaign – pointed out the sus photo on his Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/ericming5/status/705417645936545794

Fusion gave its two cents and said what we were thinking: that is not a normal skin tone color. By looking at a cached version of Trump’s site, Fusion found that the model looked like this on August 9:

A month later, the new photo popped up – though it seems to have been removed since photoshop criticisms began surfacing.