Kellyanne Conway's "Working Hard" Photo

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Kellyanne Conway's "Working Hard" Photo refers to a picture of United States President-elect Donald Trump and his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway looking at a Macbook. After the photograph was tweeted by Conway in late November 2016, it widely circulated on Twitter accompanied by various humorous captions and photoshopped computer screens.

Origin

On November 28th, 2016, Conway tweeted a photograph of her and Donald Trump looking at a computer screen with the caption "@realDonaldTrump & I working hard tonight. Thank you for the privilege of a lifetime, #PEOTUS" (shown below).

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The same day, Twitter user @ParkerMolloy^[3] posted the photo next to a photoshopped picture of a computer screen with instructions on "How To Be President of the United States" (shown below, left). Meanwhile, Twitter user @braddybb^[4] posted a blank photoshop template to accompany the photo, asking followers to "please meme responsibly" (shown below, right).

That evening, Twitter user The Cuckservative^[2] retweeted the photo with the caption "'Now watch. I hate the tweet button and obtain full control of the news cycle'" (shown below). In 48 hours, the tweet received upwards of 5,000 likes and 2,500 retweets. In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online reaction to Conway's photo, including Bustle,^[5] Esquire^[6] and The Daily Dot.^[7]