--- title: Paris Agreement: Pete Souza Posts Photos of Barack Obama description: Former White House photographer Pete Souza took to Instagram to comment on President Trump's decision to pull out from the Paris Agreement. canonical: https://time.com/4803376/obama-photographer-on-trump/ author: Lena Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-02T17:49:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:09.473Z og:title: Obama Photographer Trolls Trump With National Park Photos og:description: He uploaded a number of photos of President Obama at parks across the country og:url: https://time.com/4803376/obama-photographer-on-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3189a9b6c260059c/6988cfef0b72e32a6f6ee13e/pete-souza-paris-agreement-decision.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4928 og:image:height: 2772 og:image:alt: US-CLIMATE-WARMING-UN-COP21-OBAMA og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Obama Photographer Trolls Trump With National Park Photos twitter:description: He uploaded a number of photos of President Obama at parks across the country twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3189a9b6c260059c/6988cfef0b72e32a6f6ee13e/pete-souza-paris-agreement-decision.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Obama's Photographer Just Showed How He Really Feels About Trump's Paris Agreement Decision > Sponsored content. 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US President Barack Obama delivers a statement in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on December 12, 2015 after an international climate accord was reached in Paris. NICHOLAS KAMM—AFP/Getty Images by [Lena Grossman](https://time.com/author/lena-grossman/) ## Lena Grossman Jun 2, 2017 5:49 PM UTC [Pete Souza](http://time.com/4639338/obama-photos-we-loved/), former Chief Official White House Photographer for President Obama, has no qualms trolling President Donald Trump on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/petesouza/). In fact, he does it on pretty much a daily basis. In light of President Trump’s [decision](http://time.com/4801134/paris-agreement-withdrawal-donald-trump-rose-garden/) to pull out of the [Paris Agreement](http://time.com/4802829/mit-researchers-trump-climate-change-paris/), Souza posted multiple photos of President Obama, whose captions all quoted the lyrics to “[This Land Is Your Land](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s).” Souza’s modus operandi for comparing the Trump and Obama presidencies involves juxtaposing decisions made by President Trump with photographs of President Obama doing [pretty something at odds with POTUS](https://www.instagram.com/p/BUiXhWslde6/?taken-by=petesouza). Before Souza went on a posting spree, he [uploaded a photo](https://www.instagram.com/p/BUz2b%5Fal7OE/?taken-by=petesouza) of the signed Paris Agreement with the caption “He tried. But we failed our children.” The photographs of President Obama show him at many national parks, which could be another subtle jab at President Trump. Trump’s proposed could [cut funding](http://time.com/4723693/donald-trump-salary-national-park-service/) to the Department of the Interior by 11.7%. Similarly, after the inauguration, some national parks [went rogue](http://time.com/4649608/national-parks-climate-change-donald-trump-tweets/) and defied President Trump on Twitter. The first picture involving the lyrics “This land is your land. This land is my land” shows the Obama family at Acadia National Park in Maine. “From California to the New York Island” shows President Obama at Yosemite National Park, looking out at Yosemite Falls. Similarly, “From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf Stream Waters” is a photo of Obama holding a young Sasha in the ocean in Panama City Beach, Fla. President Obama greets young children in the Everglades National Park in “This land was made for you and me.” Other locations in his Instagram uploads include [Koko Head Hiking Trail](https://www.instagram.com/p/BU1wj64l0O1/?taken-by=petesouza) in Hawaii, [Kenai Fjords National Park](https://www.instagram.com/p/BU1zFohFfM2/?taken-by=petesouza) in Alaska, at an unnamed hilltop in [Oahu,](https://www.instagram.com/p/BU12qq2FU1q/?taken-by=petesouza) and at [Mount Mansfield](https://www.instagram.com/p/BU2BwoJFjLx/?taken-by=petesouza) in Vermont. “The future depends on all of us,” reads his last caption. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4803376/obama-photographer-on-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4803376/obama-photographer-on-trump/"},"headline":"President Obama's Photographer Just Showed How He Really Feels About Trump's Paris Agreement Decision","datePublished":"2017-06-02T17:49:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:44:09.473Z","description":"Former White House photographer Pete Souza took to Instagram to comment on President Trump's decision to pull out from the Paris Agreement.","url":"https://time.com/4803376/obama-photographer-on-trump/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Barack Obama","viral","White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3189a9b6c260059c/6988cfef0b72e32a6f6ee13e/pete-souza-paris-agreement-decision.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lena Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lena-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3189a9b6c260059c/6988cfef0b72e32a6f6ee13e/pete-souza-paris-agreement-decision.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-CLIMATE-WARMING-UN-COP21-OBAMA","caption":"US-CLIMATE-WARMING-UN-COP21-OBAMA","creditText":"NICHOLAS KAMM—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/4803376/obama-photographer-on-trump/","name":"President Obama's Photographer Just Showed How He Really Feels About Trump's Paris Agreement Decision"}}]}] ```