White House posting heavily pixelated images on social media

The White House's official social media accounts have been posting heavily pixelated images of administration officials, with no explanation why.

For the last few hours, The White House's Instagram and X accounts have posted three images with heavy pixelations.

One appears to be of Donald Trump in his trademark red cap, while another seems to be of Vice President JD Vance.

It is not readily apparent who the third image is of.

None of the images are captioned in any way.

The White House also posted a seven-second video of a black-and-white White House logo which flickers and disintegrates as discordant noise plays.

The video is captioned with only an emoji of a smiley face with a hushing finger over its mouth.

A four-second video posted yesterday showed someone's feet and a female voice saying "It's launching soon, right?"

That video was deleted after 90 minutes.

The Federal Communications Commission has also posted a pixelated image, perhaps of chairman Brendan Carr.

What the administration is doing with the posts remains a mystery.

But it is far from unprecedented for the Trump administration to seek to change the subject when it is mired in an unpopular scandal.

In the past few months it has been beset with what is turning into a quagmire in Iran as well as unflattering revelations in the Epstein files.

The administration is also copping flak for massive queues at airport security, rapidly rising petrol prices and a sluggish economy.

Trump's approval rating is now at record lows.

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