Total lie "darkened the skin color" - the top image is overexposed to the point where his entire jacket is blown out, and the background is too bright to add any light text over.
So dropping the exposure curve over the whole image - puts detail back into a state where you can see the jacket and tie, and provide a background to print white and red text that is visible.
'darken the skin' - nonsense. The whole image is dropped, because the top image is too bright.
On the other hand, the press does go to a big amount of effort to alter just the skintones on Trump images.
Total lie "darkened the skin color" - the top image is overexposed to the point where his entire jacket is blown out, and the background is too bright to add any light text over.
So dropping the exposure curve over the whole image - puts detail back into a state where you can see the jacket and tie, and provide a background to print white and red text that is visible.
'darken the skin' - nonsense. The whole image is dropped, because the top image is too bright.
On the other hand, the press does go to a big amount of effort to alter just the skintones on Trump images.