D-Mich. Governor Gretchen Whitmer said he regretted hiding his face during a meeting with President Donald Trump in his oval office last week.
Whitmer was enjoying the moment of Villar now by holding the folder in front of her face again during an event at the Detroit Economic Club on Monday.
“…I don’t want to take a photo of myself. That’s it. I was hoping that the folder wasn’t in front of my face, but whatever.
Whitmer was criticized for protecting her face as the photo became a social media meme. Alex Meyer is the assistant assistant to the White House president and the director of the Intergovernmental Secretariat, standing on the left in the photo of the Whitmer Bureau; I joked that it was his new profile picture..
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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer will be seen covering his face in an oval office on April 9, 2025. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
Last week, Michigan’s Governor’s trip to Washington brought the 2028 presidential ambitions to national conversation when he hit a diplomatic tone with Trump. She carefully criticized Trump’s tariffs, understood the “motivation behind the tariffs” and even agreed with Trump that “we need to make more things in America.”
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Whitmer’s viral, oval office moment marked his second meeting with Trump in less than a month. When Trump signed the executive order and answered questions from the press, he said Whitmer “did you do a great job” as governor and called her “a very good person.”
“One of her opponents will dig up the clip and put it in a TV ad,” Brad Bannon, a Democratic strategist and president of Bannon Communications Research, told Fox News Digital.
Bannon warned that potential 2028 presidential candidate Whitmer could endanger his position as “first presidential candidate” by coming too close to Trump, along with Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Andy Beshear of Kentucky, and Gavin Newsom of California.
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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer will be screened on April 9, 2025 in his oval office. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Whitmer’s office was brought into the room “without notice” as Trump signed an executive order calling for an investigation of two first-condition aides who were critical of his actions, saying her appearance was “not in support of any actions or statements that were made.”
But Trump called the issue “bipartisan,” and jokingly said, “We all stood together and cut the ribbon. Okay, Gretchen?”
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer will be screened on April 9, 2025 in his oval office. (Anna Money Maker/Getty Images)
Last week, Whitmer’s diplomatic moves appeared to have taken her a step forward with her party as Democratic governor. JB Pritzker Illinois and Newsom worked independently with their trading partners to ease the damage to the state’s economy.
“If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu,” Whitmer said after her. Speech in Washington It appears she’s been explaining her diplomatic tone last week.
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The Whitmers office discussed help in recovering ice storms in northern Michigan, explaining that he is investing in Michigan’s defense assets and meeting with Trump to build the American economy for his everyday Michigan.
Alex Nitzberg of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
