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It's an image.
The source of the image is Getty: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/president-donald-trump-holds-notes-on-the-pricing-of-tesla-news-photo/2204585275
Because motioning broadly with your large-font speech notes is a really bad idea when in front of an unfriendly press pool :)
It does look weirdly ai though. I’m not saying it’s fake, because frankly, I don’t think there’s an ai yet that can create that much sensible text, and the details on his hand and arm are true to life (based on that thumbnail, he should probably take a multivitamin).
Anyone know what’s so off-looking about the handwriting though? I figure it’s a weird angle and that’s why the text fades towards the right side of the page, but it’s a very strange picture all around. Maybe things just get funky when you take pictures at that level of zoom.
it looks like they adjusted the light levels so the hand written note is easier to read
doing so made the right side fade because of glare?
It's light exposure. The right side of the page is overexposed because it's getting hit with (and reflecting, because it's white) the majority of the direct light in the environment in which the photo was taken.
It likely wasn't corrected because the focus of the actual image for the photographer was presumably Trump himself.
Here is an example of different types of exposure.