President Donald Trump might be seeing spots for a while. If he's lucky, that's the worst effect he'll suffer after gazing skyward Monday.

News organizations across the country warned Americans for days to use proper eye protection if they planned to look at the much-ballyhooed total solar eclipse.

"The ones we're really concerned about," optometrist Ralph Chou told NPR last week, "are the people who have never seen an eclipse before -- or just decided that, you know, 'Today is a nice day to go take a look at a solar eclipse' -- and, 'Oh, I probably don't need to do very much to get ready to do that.' Then I get worried."

The president is one of the sky-watchers Chou was worried about. An Associated Press photographer on Monday captured Trump pointing and squinting at the sun without eye protection.

"Don't look!" an aide shouted at the president, but it was too late. Trump did don eclipse glasses moments later and appears to be fine.

Twitter, of course, is having fun with the images of Trump watching the eclipse.

Aaaaaand here's your photo of Trump looking straight at the eclipse pic.twitter.com/5vv6sVTDIl — Stefan Marolachakis (@stefanmymind) August 21, 2017

Melania Trump looked at the eclipse without glasses so she never has to see him again 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/L6qQrXnvfO — Mohamad Hazime (@Mhazime7) August 21, 2017

SCIENTIST: "Don't look at the sun during an eclipse."



TRUMP: "Fake news!" pic.twitter.com/JzIW422z4r — Andrew McCrutchen (@BostonJerry) August 21, 2017