I know what happens in the Oval Office,
and that's what scares me.
I come at this from a
very unique perspective,
not just having been a journalist,
but also having worked for
two different Presidents.
Okay folks, big smile.
Pete was with the President all the time.
Unlike his predecessor,
Mr. Trump does not allow
his staff photographer to capture
photographs of life and
work inside the White House.
If you just stacked up the images
of the Obama Presidency
and the Trump Presidency,
you would see the two stories of America
in the starkest possible contrast.
The job of the Chief Official
White House Photographer is
to make authentic photographs.
Photographs break down the idea
that these people are
somehow different from us.
I've got an idea for another picture.
Did you get that, Pete?
-Yeah.
The first time that we went to the UN,
he and Reggie Love played basketball.
At one point, President
Obama blocks Reggie's shot.
And he goes, "Did you get that block?"
When Barack Obama was elected,
I could see what he meant to
the African American community.
This five-year-old kid asked Obama,
"Is my haircut just like yours?"
President Obama bent over and let that kid
touch his head with his hand.
That image stands for how kids
will see themselves differently forever.
I thought, who is this man?
How does he deal with crisis?
Leadership, character and empathy.
Don't you wish we had that now?
When I first met Pete,
his politics were not at all evident.
Pete changed, he could no
longer be this fly in the wall.
Pete Souza's getting attention online
for replies to president Trump's tweets.
I had to speak out.
I knew how the job should be done.
Pete felt the urgency to
show what the office can be.
This was a 911.
Reagan and Obama
respected the dignity of the office.
The Presidency is a serious job,
and I was gonna do everything I could
to make sure that people
didn't forget that.
Do you have a picture
for every single thing
that Donald Trump has lied
about with Barack Obama?
Pretty much.
