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Supporters of President Trump are seeing red after the iconic “Fight! Fight! Fight!” photo taken moments after he narrowly survived an assassination attempt last summer was snubbed by Pulitzer Prize judges.
The photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci, captured the heroic moment the then-candidate stood up after being struck by an assassin’s bullet at a July 13 rally in Butler, Pa. — yelling “Fight! Fight! Fight!.” with his fist raised and his face bloodied before he was ushered offstage.
“Evan Vucci’s photograph of Donald Trump after last summer’s assassination attempt is iconic — maybe the single most famous photo of the past decade,” conservative influencer Charlie Kirk wrote on X.
“But because it made Trump look good, the Pulitzer Prize committee just refused to give it the award for best breaking news photograph of 2024,” Kirk wrote, adding, “Total joke.”
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) also felt that biased jurists were at work on the Pulitzer committee.
“So telling and tragic,” Lee wrote on X.
Other conservatives online agreed that the photo was snubbed because it made Trump look too good — which worried liberals during the lead up to the election.
One photo editor at a major news outlet feared the historic photo would be used as propaganda for the MAGA movement that could “further their agenda.”
That anonymous editor claimed that it was “dangerous for media organizations to keep sharing” the photos “despite how good” they are, Axios reported.
The Pulitzer for Breaking News Photography was awarded to New York Times photographer Doug Mills, for his work at the same rally.
Mills won the honor for snaps that captured the split-second a bullet fired by Thomas Crooks, 20, whizzed by the head of Trump as he spoke at the podium.
“I just happened to be down, shooting with a wide-angle lens just below the president when he was speaking. There was a huge flag waving right above his head, and I just happened to be taking pictures at the same time,” Mills told Fox News days after the first assassination attempt on Trump.
“Then, when I heard the pops, I guess I kept hitting on the shutter, and then I saw him reach for his [ear]. He grimaced and grabbed his hand and looked. It was blood, and then he went down, and I thought, ‘Dear God, he’s been shot,’” Mills said.
Mills revealed to Fox News that he used a Sony a1 camera to capture the Pulitzer-winning photos.
