The new fine adds to its public image problems following a systems meltdown this week and recent allegations, which it denies, that it has abused its small business customers.
The first euphoric post-election shots of Mr. Obama and his family waving to crowds of teary, flag-waving supporters are quickly replaced by images of Wall Street in meltdown, the credit industry frozen in panic, the real estate market in collapse and the entire country on the brink of despair.
Meanwhile more than 89% said they could relate to British Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington's I'm A Celebrity reality TV meltdown over her body-image insecurities, and 76% said the same concerns had influenced their diet and training regimes.
(Incidentally, if you liked that Kimmel Kartoon, check out the one in which Charlie Sheen's answers to Andrea Canning's interview questions during his meltdown are laid over images from an old Charlie Brown special).
They include job insecurity due to mergers and acquisitions, as well as some reprioritization and downsizing due to the global economic meltdown and the negative public image perception caused by withdrawn products and safety issues.
Images multiply of Hiroshima and Chernobyl and the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979 and waste in dangerous perpetuity, not to mention proliferation and dirty bombs.
Who could have guessed that the enduring image of the Internet bubble burst would be the John Chambers John Chambers meltdown.
The midround meltdown was the first real pockmark in McIlroy's image, which has showed few imperfections during his swift rise to No. 1.
But when she posted the image below with the caption "my stone heart", the rumour mill went into meltdown.
Trump's post-convention tribulations just prompted Time magazine to publish a stylised image of his head dribbling like hot wax beside a single word headline: "Meltdown".
Her public meltdown in the Celebrity Jungle in 2013, where she confessed her body image insecurities, gave the issue national focus with a subsequent survey finding that 67% of elite GB sportswomen feared their looks were valued over their sporting achievements.
