--- title: Kellyanne Conway Oval Office Photo Goes Viral description: The Internet had a field day when a photo emerged on Monday of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway kneeling on an Oval Office sofa canonical: https://time.com/4685269/kellyanne-conway-oval-office-photo/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-28T13:19:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:29.287Z og:title: The Internet Had Fun With Kellyanne Conway Sitting All Casual og:description: Her pose sparked an online debate og:url: https://time.com/4685269/kellyanne-conway-oval-office-photo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0801140b62b2f989/6988bc51cf40a851a9c46a3f/kellyanne-conway1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: TOPSHOT-US-POLITICS-TRUMP og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Had Fun With Kellyanne Conway Sitting All Casual twitter:description: Her pose sparked an online debate twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0801140b62b2f989/6988bc51cf40a851a9c46a3f/kellyanne-conway1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Is Having Fun With Kellyanne Conway Sitting All Casual in the Oval Office > Sponsored content. 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Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway checks her phone after taking a photo as President Donald Trump and leaders of historically black universities and colleges pose for a group photo in the Oval Office, on Feb. 27, 2017 in Washington, D.C.Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Feb 28, 2017 1:19 PM UTC The Internet had a field day when a photo emerged on Monday of [White House](http://time.com/4672974/donald-trump-white-house-chaos/) counselor [Kellyanne Conway](http://motto.time.com/4684780/kellyanne-conway-hillary-clinton-voters/) kneeling on an Oval Office sofa. Conway was seen casually sitting with her knees tucked under her on the couch while [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4685184/donald-trump-state-union-joint-address-reset/) met with leaders from historically black colleges and universities in the Oval Office. Her pose sparked a debate online about whether she respected the office and quickly became a meme. > [](https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/836399051432144896) > [](https://twitter.com/Russian%5FStarr/status/836411313979019264) > [](https://twitter.com/zepadeedoodah/status/836404862468268032) > [](https://twitter.com/darth/status/836404543109804032) > [](https://twitter.com/joshgondelman/status/836406655084556288) > [](https://twitter.com/ingridostby/status/836405253000081408) > [](https://twitter.com/deray/status/836405356880351233) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4685269/kellyanne-conway-oval-office-photo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4685269/kellyanne-conway-oval-office-photo/"},"headline":"The Internet Is Having Fun With Kellyanne Conway Sitting All Casual in the Oval Office","datePublished":"2017-02-28T13:19:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:29.287Z","description":"Her pose sparked an online debate","url":"https://time.com/4685269/kellyanne-conway-oval-office-photo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0801140b62b2f989/6988bc51cf40a851a9c46a3f/kellyanne-conway1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0801140b62b2f989/6988bc51cf40a851a9c46a3f/kellyanne-conway1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TOPSHOT-US-POLITICS-TRUMP","caption":"Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway checks her phone after taking a photo as President Donald Trump and leaders of historically black universities and colleges pose for a group photo in the Oval Office, on Feb. 27, 2017 in Washington, D.C.","creditText":"Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4685269/kellyanne-conway-oval-office-photo/","name":"The Internet Is Having Fun With Kellyanne Conway Sitting All Casual in the Oval Office"}}]}] ```