Basically, yes. The fact that the guy in the photo is standing so much higher than Cooper means, to the people who choose to interpret it as such, that Cooper is kneeling and the water is really only ankle deep. Never mind the fact that with a quick glance I can see five reference points that show basically for certain that Cooper isn’t kneeling, and is just higher off the ground, either on a slightly submerged platform, or just some other higher ground. If the cameras and other equipment are sitting on a raised roadway, and Cooper is standing at what is generally ground level (which appears to be the case) then Cooper is more accurately representing the situation.
In order to interpret it in the way that the president’s terminally thick-headed son has, you’d have to come at it looking for any reason, no matter how flimsy, to denigrate Cooper, which is pretty obviously the overall goal here.
Edit: I also just looked it up. Cooper is 5’10" (178cm) which also happens to be the same height as me. Assuming Cooper doesn’t have highly atypical limb proportions, the position of his left hand suggests that the water is no deeper than about 2.5 to 3 feet. That’s deep, but far from shocking in a hurricane or flood, so one would think that if you were going to exaggerate something, you’d at least make it look worse than average, would you not? Making it just look like a pretty average flood doesn’t seem like it’d really do the trick, so to speak.
