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In his capacity as President of the United States, Donald Trump has the ultimate authority to declassify any executive branch material. So technically, he declassified the material the moment he sent the tweet, assuming the imagery was classified in the first place. I’m unsure if anyone has determined exactly how classified the material was: confidential, secret, top secret.

For anyone thinking that the President should have a process to declassify information like everyone else in the intelligence community: There likely is one, but the ultimate authority to enforce it is vested with the Office of the President and the President likely chose to disregard it by tweeting.