They could be right. If Jill Biden was four feet away from the camera and Rosalynn Carter was eight feet away then she would look only half as big.
If you are in a small room and you need an unusually wide-angle lens to get everything in then the perspective will look odd. Look at the size of Jimmy Carter's feet, for instance.
Here is what the UK Sun newspaper had to say: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14851271/why-is-the-picture-of-joe-biden-and-jimmy-carter-going-viral/
They could be right. If Jill Biden was four feet away from the camera and Rosalynn Carter was eight feet away then she would look only half as big.
If you are in a small room and you need an unusually wide-angle lens to get everything in then the perspective will look odd. Look at the size of Jimmy Carter's feet, for instance.