AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

We knew the nation was in for rough times ahead, when early in Biden’s time as a presidential figurehead, the White House that nominally bore his name released a photo that appeared to make Joe and Jill tower over Jimmy and Rosalynn:

The New York Times and other DNC house organs attempted to craft explainers about the weird photo: Wide-Angle Oddity: Giant Bidens Meet Tiny Carters.

In a thread on Reddit that was full of Hobbit jokes, others countered that perhaps age had shrunk the former president to three feet. Or maybe, some wondered, there was something going on with the lens.

So which is it?

Reached by phone Adam Schultz, the chief official White House photographer, confirmed that he took the photo but declined to explain. “It’s for people to figure out and think about,” he said.

Everybody else in the Biden White House gaslit voters with haughty derision, apparently their photographer thought he should get in on the act as well.

Related: The memorial for Jimmy Carter should definitely do this, to give just a taste of the many ignominies of life in the Carter era:

“If you owned a car this May 9th in 1979, you were no doubt preoccupied with what number your license plate ended in. Because gas rationing was being enforced and was strictly limited to odd numbered or Personalized license plates on this day.”