The fact that one of the most powerful men in the world had an official photo op done to stop nonesense attacks surprises people?
Of course it’s “staged”, what do people expect a candid shot from a secret agent with his cellphone?
Even then people will just complain that the photo is too grainy and it was made that way on purpose so you couldn’t tell the details of the gun etc.
And then people wonder why our country is so divided. We make up shit to make us paranoid and unhappy.