A picture of President Donald Trump shot at a cabinet meeting on Thursday, October 9, 2025, has spread like wildfire on social media. The picture, taken by Jim Watson for AFP in the White House Cabinet Room, shows the president talking with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on either side of him.
But the picture has gotten a lot of attention not for the political content of the discussion but for how it looks. A cropped version of the picture that is going around on sites like X seems to show the president with two different “devil horns” sticking out of the top of his head.
People on social media soon picked up on the picture, posting things like “Trump with devil horns” and “new picture of trump with devil horns just dropped.” The images are based on how the Devil has been represented in art for a long time, usually with horns. This style goes back to the Middle Ages.
The Real Story Behind the “Horns”
There were a lot of viral reports and comments about it, but the President was not really seen with horns. The decor and lighting of the White House Cabinet Room make it look like something is happening.
The President’s chair is in the middle of the east side of the big mahogany table in the Cabinet Room. The room’s walls are made in the Georgian Revival style and were mostly rebuilt in 1934. They have beautiful neoclassical moldings and other decorative elements. The effect is made by putting the President’s head in line with a wall carving or ornamental motif, like a sculpted piece or part of the ceiling molding, that is right behind his seat.
As one X profile said, “Anti-MAGA” pages online are sharing and changing the image a lot, which proves that the visual is an illusion and not a real part of the picture.
The Cabinet Meeting’s Main Goal: Peace Deal Success
The cabinet discussion was mostly about the Trump administration’s diplomatic success. The Associated Press said that the President “basked in his achievement of the Israel-Hamas peace deal.”
During the discussion, President Trump talked about how important the deal was, saying it was “something that people said was never going to be done.” He also claimed he was sure that the deal might lead to “everlasting peace” in the area. “Everything came together,” he said to describe the successful agreement.
The President, who calls himself a “master dealmaker,” also said he would go to the Middle East over the weekend to make the deal more official. This schedule includes a possible signing ceremony in Egypt, which is a key negotiator in the accord, and a speech to the Knesset in Israel.