King Willem-Alexander says ‘at least I didn’t Photoshop it’

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King Willem-Alexander when asked about a picture with his family says ‘at least I didn’t Photoshop it’. It is bad when other Royal family members are having a pop.

Sadly parts of my own family have no voice now as they were all eliminated during WW2. We all have our own shitstorm in private life.

I had the opposite reaction. The joke shows how completely out of proportion the whole episode has been blown by an online world and media who will perpetuate any "scandal" or mistake however small for clicks.

No one is a global laughing stock, except possibly the tabloids.

That makes more sense to me. I don’t think it speaks very well of him if his intent was to mock. That would be something Trump would do, but hopefully it is rare.

All the European royals know each other so I would be very surprised if he meant to mock anything except the media obsession with the story.

I said earlier in the thread that it was a mistranslation. If you watch the video, a little girl says proudly that she has seen him in a photo, with his whole family. Just in that cute way kids do. And he responds to that with a little joke but there’s really no sense of “ at least “ in what he says, which sounds a bit snide in English.

https://www.gld.nl/nieuws/8116074/grapje-van-koning-willem-alexander-in-zutphen-gaat-viraal

Computer translation is often excellent but it still can’t capture this sort of nuance.

That's top banter, that is, well played KW-A 👏

That makes sense, I can't see him being snide about it.

You really didn’t understand his joke, did you. Because the meaning was the opposite of what you are saying.

I’m not in the UK, and I can assure you they are certainly not a laughing stock. Most European royals are fairly good friends anyway, and this was his way of saying it’s not a big deal really. Which it isn’t. It’s media going for clicks.