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January 9, 2019

Australia’s Prime Minister Trolled After Terrible Photoshop Fail

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's team decided to spruce up his family photo, leading to what's now being referred to as #shoegate.

Australia – the country where people seriously and publicly debated whether the onions should go above or below the sausage on a hot dog.

You can read more about that here.

It’s also the country currently being run by a man called Scott Morrison. Apart from being a giant douche who made some very inappropriate comments about Pamela Anderson, Morrison is also a family man.

At least that’s the message he wanted to convey with a recent photo shoot.

One of the photos, which is supposed to be the perfect family portrait, has one major flaw. See if you can spot it:

Let’s look a little closer:

Not his real shoe or his foot. Welcome to #shoegate. Here’s The Guardian:

The image on Scott Morrison’s website had a rather obvious flaw – the leader of Australia had two left feet and a pair of Photoshopped shoes.

The failed picture-doctoring attempt has gone viral on social media and has been dubbed #shoegate. The original photo has now been restored.

A spokesperson for the Australian PM said that Morrison didn’t authorise the Photoshop, which he confirmed by posting a pic of his actual dad sneakers on Twitter:

Thanks.

Naturally, people on social media have been having a lot of fun with this one:

This isn’t the first time that Morrison has had to have something removed from his website following poor editing choices.

In September last year, Morrison’s office deleted a video from his social media accounts after discovering the accompanying hip-hop song contained explicit lyrics.

The 11-second clip from question time showed MPs raising their hands, set to the 1999 track ‘Be Faithful’ by American rapper Fatman Scoop.

And yes, I found it for you. Enjoy:

[source:guardian]