"Optimus Prime greeted the President today during a press conference. Due to the size of the parties involved, the Commander in Chief and the Autobot Leader met and conversed on the lawn outside the President's vacation home in Idaho. The public exchange was an effort to promote humen/alien relations among the citizens of the United States and boost wartime morale. The President considered the conference a success and hopes that this public display of decency will reverse the President's recent drop in public opinion polls and bolster support for the robot presence on US soil."

Don't ask me, I dont know. I wanted to draw another picture of my Optimus Redesign so I drew Optimus sitting down and I thought it would be fun if he was shaking hands, and while he was shaking hands... why not shake hands with the President. And it looked like a photo from a newspaper so I wrote up a little news release to go with it. Look at me not doing homework right now.

Download for super huge ohmigosh blow your brains out in sheer size version.

I just realized that Prime and the Prez are shaking LEFT hands instead of Right. Just letting you all know that neither they nor I mean any disrespect to any parties involved ^^ I just drew the thing and didn't think about it. Ups.

And I'm aware of the ways to change it so that they are shaking correct hands, thanks for all the suggestions! But I like it this way because if you flip it it changes the mood of the picture. Try it and you'll see... when you flip it Prime is no longer in charge of the picture... its like Optimus was sitting here on this hill and the president walked up with an entourage and interrupted him. In this way, Prime is most important, like he agreed to it. That's the mood that's set.

My favorite excuse is that Prime didn't know better the prez didnt want to offend him.