You can’t trust your eyes anymore. That is the first rule of living in this country today. You cannot trust what you see on the news, you cannot trust what you read on your phone, and you definitely cannot trust anything that comes out of the mouth of a politician. But now, it turns out you can’t even trust the visual evidence they provide. The people running the show in Washington D.C. have decided that real life is just a rough draft. They think they can edit reality like a high school kid editing a selfie for social media.

Here is the story driving the search trends today. It involves a woman named **Nekima Levy Armstrong**. She is a vocal **ICE protester**. She gets out there and yells about immigration policy and border control. Whether you agree with her or not doesn’t matter for the sake of this analysis. The point is that she was doing something real. She was in a church. She was organizing a protest. She got arrested. That is a real thing that happens when you fight the power. You get handcuffs. You get trouble.

But the White House? They don't like trouble. They don't like messy things like arrests and anger. They like smooth, happy lies. So, what did they do? In a move that screams **political image manipulation**, the White House shared an image of her. But it wasn't the honest picture. It was an edited image. A fake. A lie made of pixels.

**Nekima Levy Armstrong** says she was "disgusted" when she saw the **fake arrest image**. She should be. We all should be. But she shouldn't be surprised. This is what these people do. They take the truth and they put it in a blender until it looks nice and safe. They wanted to use her face for their own little game, but they didn't want the baggage that comes with it. They wanted the credit without the headache. It is lazy and it is insulting.

Think about the ego it takes to do this. You have a government that thinks it can just change history with a computer program. They snap a photo, and if they don't like how it looks, they just fix it. They don't fix the problem. They don't fix the **immigration laws** or the border or the way people are treated. No, that is too hard. That takes actual work. It is much easier to just hire some kid to fix the photo.

This is why nobody believes anything anymore. The Left pretends they are the champions of the people, but then they pull stunts like this. They use activists as props. They treat human beings like cardboard cutouts. If the cutout doesn't fit the scene, they trim the edges. The Right is no better, screaming about everything while offering zero solutions. But in this specific case, we are looking at the administration in power. They are the ones with the Photoshop license.

Why was she disgusted? Because it feels like a violation. It is one thing to be arrested. That is a battle between you and the law. It is raw and it is honest. But to be turned into a marketing tool for the very people you are fighting against? That is a special kind of sick. It turns her pain into their poster.

We live in a world where everything is content. Your suffering is content for a news channel. Your anger is content for a social media app. And now, your arrest is content for the White House. But they are picky content creators. They only want the good parts. They want to look like they are listening, even when they are just editing.

It makes you wonder what else is fake. If they are willing to edit a photo of a protester in a church, what are they doing with the budget numbers? What are they doing with the crime stats? If they can change a picture, they can change a report. It is all the same mindset. It is the belief that the truth is whatever they say it is.

This is the state of our union. We have leaders who are more worried about the lighting in a picture than the darkness in the streets. They spend more time on image management than crisis management. **Nekima Levy Armstrong** got a taste of the real Washington machine. It doesn't care about you. It only cares about how you look on their feed. And if you don't look right, they will change you.

So go ahead and be disgusted. Be angry. But don't be shocked. This is who they are. They are not leaders. They are editors. And they are doing a terrible job.

### References & Fact-Check

* **Original Incident**: [ICE protester says she was 'disgusted' after fake arrest image shared by White House](https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c86v6p1djvqo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss) (BBC News)