{"id":665,"date":"2026-05-28T16:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=665"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:09:49","slug":"hakeem-jeffries-mocked-for-posting-apparent-facetuned-image-of-himself-in-knicks-hat-just-bizarre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Hakeem Jeffries mocked for posting apparent Facetuned image of himself in Knicks hat: &#8216;Just bizarre&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was brutally mocked across social media Wednesday after he posted what was meant to be an image celebrating the New York Knicks\u2019 return to the NBA Finals after a 27-year absence.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=663\">How CIA officer convinced US government to give him $40M in gold bars \u2014 as new allegations about his past revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Brooklyn Democrat got an online earful from users pointing out that the portrait of him in an all-white Knicks hat appeared to have been tweaked in a bid to remove age lines from his face, sharpen his jawline, and smooth out his prominent cheekbones.<\/p>\n<p>National Republican Senatorial Committee aide Sarah Gallagher flagged the funky photo to X, posting: \u201c[B]abe wake up hakeem jeffries [sic] is using facetune [sic] again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHakeem Jeffries looks like a JV baseball coach going through marital troubles,\u201d added GOP consultant Alex Pfeiffer, a former White House principal deputy communications director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese unrealistic beauty standards are hitting Jeffries hard,\u201d joked Edgar A. Barrios, a member of House Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s (R-La.) rapid response team.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=661\">Dramatic moment masked ICE officers drag suspected illegal migrant from his car at gunpoint in San Francisco<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old\u2019s Instagram comments were no less vicious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many AI photos are you gonna post,\u201d asked one user, while another pronounced the image: \u201cJust bizarre.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Still another user accused Jeffries of trying to mush his hometown team, writing: \u201cNo. Do not do this. Do not put your lobbyist-approved, corporate liberal, cheugy ass stink on this team. Leave it alone congressman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The photo fail came almost a full year after Jeffries was called out for posting an obviously doctored photo of himself on Instagram, in which a bench he was standing against was wildly warped around his hips in a failed bid to make him appear taller.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Jeffries did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=659\">Trump\u2019s team pushes for new $250 bill with his face on it \u2014 but there\u2019s a big catch<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was brutally mocked across social media Wednesday after he posted what was meant to be an image celebrating the New York Knicks&#8217; return to the NBA Finals after a 27-year absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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