Trump never has to buy sunglasses again because Obama's photographer will shade him forever

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Since Donald Trump has taken office, Obama's official White House photographer has turned Instagram into his own personal oak tree, using the social media platform to cast a ridiculous amount of shade on the new POTUS whenever possible.

Pete Souza is his name, and destroying Trump with his own phenomenal Obama photographs accompanied by ruthless captions is his game.

In the last 17 hours, Souza has managed to take shots at both President Trump and his surveillance expert of a counselor, Kellyanne Conway, with two beautiful and shady-AF posts that have already received around 173,000 likes.

The first: A beautiful photo of Obama taken through a window at the White House. The former POTUS is seen walking while staring down at his cellphone in hand. Ah, those were the days.

Souza accompanied the image with a feisty, nine-word caption that delivered a heavy dose of nostalgia while simultaneously bashing Trump's horrible social media usage: "Glad he only tweeted out facts with his device."

Perhaps he was also taking a jab at Kellyanne Conway's "alternative facts" claim, which wouldn't surprise us, because Souza targeted her in his next gram.

The second: Straying from his usual Instagram aesthetic of original, professional images, Souza decided to share a hilarious photoshop someone created using the following photo he took of Obama holding a camera.

The photoshop reimagines Obama and his camera inside a microwave oven, poking fun at Kellyanne Conway's most recent difficult question dodge, in which she babbled about spying microwaves in response to being asked about Trump's wiretapping claims.

On March 4, Trump tweeted several messages accusing Obama of wiretapping his hotel while in office, so this photoshop pretty much says it all.

Souza captioned the image, "Someone has been photoshopping one of my photos. For the record, it wasn't me," making it clear he isn't responsible, but that didn't stop him from sharing.

This isn't the first time Souza has brought much-needed sass to Instagram, and we pray it won't be the last.

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Nicole Gallucci

Nicole is a Senior Editor at Mashable. She primarily covers entertainment and digital culture trends, and in her free time she can be found watching TV, sending voice notes, or going viral on Twitter for admiring knitwear. You can follow her on Twitter @nicolemichele5.

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