[ath3nd]

No, as you can see by the beautiful and very appropriate visuals (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Frame-...), he is coming out towards us, the viewers, with his back to the Lab Leak letters. He is poised, he's not looking back (suggesting that maybe the letters will explode?).

If we know anything about American fiction, it's that:

- The person walking with their back on the scene is the hero

- The hero is totally justified in whatever they are doing, no need to question their motives, morale or veracity

- An explosion or sunglasses (or both) is imminent

If this wasn't tragic, it'd be actually some (low) quality entertainment.