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Celerity

(47,212 posts)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:13 PM 13 hrs ago

Trump and Vance's Official Portraits Are as Ugly as It Gets



Donald Trump is so lame he basically recreated his mugshot in his presidential portrait.

https://newrepublic.com/post/190351/trump-vance-official-presidential-portraits

https://web.archive.org/web/20250117001104/https://newrepublic.com/post/190351/trump-vance-official-presidential-portraits



Donald Trump and JD Vance debuted new presidential and vice presidential portraits Thursday and, boy, are they weirdly sinister.

Daniel Torok, the president-elect’s chief photographer, revealed the portraits on X Wednesday evening. “We are entering the GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA,” Torok wrote.



“They go hard,” wrote Trump’s transition team in a press release hyping the official portraits.

Clearly, the purpose of these photographs was to evoke some kind of masculine energy that would delight the manosphere. In Trump’s portrait, the president-elect went for a glowering stare reminiscent of his unsettlingly viral 2023 mugshot taken in Fulton County jail, which has appeared on everything from a commemorative $2 bill to NFT trading cards sold by the president-elect and his buddies.



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Trump and Vance's Official Portraits Are as Ugly as It Gets (Original Post) Celerity 13 hrs ago OP
Vance's isn't bad, but Trump's is horrific LeftInTX 13 hrs ago #1
Vance Celerity 13 hrs ago #7
He always looks like that, so that's why I say it isn't bad. It's not bad for him because he has a bit of smile LeftInTX 13 hrs ago #9
Not just ugly. Vance looks like he's either possessed by a particularly nasty demon Ocelot II 13 hrs ago #2
What's with the uplighting? C_U_L8R 13 hrs ago #3
Exactly. It's like when little kids gather in their blanket fort and tell ghost stories Ocelot II 13 hrs ago #5
This would be far more accurate: Dave Bowman 13 hrs ago #4
Looks like a con and a serial killer. Vinca 13 hrs ago #6
Not gonna look! WestMichRad 13 hrs ago #8
GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA- think Golden Showers RainCaster 13 hrs ago #10
The Golden Showers Age of America will be a refresh of trickle-down economics. nt Shermann 13 hrs ago #13
His idole Adolf was also a golden (sometimes brown) showers enthusiast. Dave Bowman 6 hrs ago #21
Is this a ploy to get people to avoid the Post Office and Social Security Offices??? LeftInTX 13 hrs ago #11
Heather from The Blair Witch Project was responsible for the lighting in Trump's photo. Tommy Carcetti 13 hrs ago #12
Lol Mossfern 13 hrs ago #14
Cartoonishly ridiculous. Oopsie Daisy 13 hrs ago #15
Looks like Don had a stroke that affected his right side, eye and mouth are uneven, drooping uppityperson 13 hrs ago #16
How can trump not be embarrassed by that? Think. Again. 12 hrs ago #17
I'd fire that photographer William Seger 4 hrs ago #24
Yes, and the model too. Think. Again. 4 hrs ago #25
Baron Fartkonen & Feyd Rasputin SunImp 12 hrs ago #18
Vance is wearing light colored contacts. He has been for quite some time. The contacts give off a weird vibe. LeftInTX 11 hrs ago #19
Vance Looks Over-Exposed Deep State Witch 11 hrs ago #20
Yeah, they both do (but I bet JD is feeling underexposed since muskrat showed up) William Seger 3 hrs ago #26
He's chosen his perpetually-pissed-off "badass" persona. Buns_of_Fire 6 hrs ago #22
It looks like someone asked generative AI to create a picture... William Seger 3 hrs ago #28
Trump glowers with his head down like that to... LudwigPastorius 5 hrs ago #23
Oof! C0RI0LANUS 3 hrs ago #29
That's his usual Lloyd Bridges impersonation Donkees 3 hrs ago #27
Imagine working in the post office pfitz59 3 hrs ago #30
This is my favorite portrait of our new President which was taken at Mar-A-Lago. C0RI0LANUS 3 hrs ago #31
Ugliest official portraits EVER. Paladin 1 hr ago #32

LeftInTX

(31,292 posts)
9. He always looks like that, so that's why I say it isn't bad. It's not bad for him because he has a bit of smile
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:25 PM
13 hrs ago

Trump looks like an ogre.

Ocelot II

(121,904 posts)
2. Not just ugly. Vance looks like he's either possessed by a particularly nasty demon
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:16 PM
13 hrs ago

or stoned on opioids (pinpoint pupils), or maybe both. Trump is doing his phony tough-guy shtick. They both look ridiculous.

C_U_L8R

(45,852 posts)
3. What's with the uplighting?
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:20 PM
13 hrs ago

He looks like he's trying to tell spooky stories around the campfire. What a pathetic clown.

Ocelot II

(121,904 posts)
5. Exactly. It's like when little kids gather in their blanket fort and tell ghost stories
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:23 PM
13 hrs ago

while shining a flashlight upward onto their faces. Bwahahahaha! So scary!

RainCaster

(11,754 posts)
10. GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA- think Golden Showers
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:26 PM
13 hrs ago

Is the photographer reminding up of the peepee tapes?

Dave Bowman

(4,082 posts)
21. His idole Adolf was also a golden (sometimes brown) showers enthusiast.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 02:30 AM
6 hrs ago

Now that I think about it, ambassador Stalone is also a fan.

Tommy Carcetti

(43,630 posts)
12. Heather from The Blair Witch Project was responsible for the lighting in Trump's photo.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:33 PM
13 hrs ago

And Vance's face appears to be biologically rejecting his eyes.

uppityperson

(115,886 posts)
16. Looks like Don had a stroke that affected his right side, eye and mouth are uneven, drooping
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:57 PM
13 hrs ago

LeftInTX

(31,292 posts)
19. Vance is wearing light colored contacts. He has been for quite some time. The contacts give off a weird vibe.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 09:18 PM
11 hrs ago

Otherwise, he looks OK. It's Trump that looks demented.

I still think Vance has had his nose done.

Deep State Witch

(11,455 posts)
20. Vance Looks Over-Exposed
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 09:22 PM
11 hrs ago

Like someone put it into Photoshop and turned up the brightness. I guess they're trying to avoid the "Shady Vance" moniker.

William Seger

(11,173 posts)
26. Yeah, they both do (but I bet JD is feeling underexposed since muskrat showed up)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 05:18 AM
3 hrs ago

And yeah, the RAW format photo would need to be edited in Photoshop, and that format gives you a lot of control over apparent exposure, so apparently the photographer wanted that high contrast look. That's why I would fire him.

Buns_of_Fire

(18,003 posts)
22. He's chosen his perpetually-pissed-off "badass" persona.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 02:46 AM
6 hrs ago

Which might be more believable if the world didn't already know he's a big wuss.

William Seger

(11,173 posts)
28. It looks like someone asked generative AI to create a picture...
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 05:24 AM
3 hrs ago

... of someone who is narrow-minded, short-sighted, self-obsessed, willfully ignorant, mean-spirited and callous.

pfitz59

(11,094 posts)
30. Imagine working in the post office
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 05:54 AM
3 hrs ago

seeing that ugly mug glaring at you every day! Someone is going to snap!

Paladin

(29,102 posts)
32. Ugliest official portraits EVER.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 07:06 AM
1 hr ago

Think of the sort of mindsets it takes to approve such nasty mugs for public consumption. Further (unneeded) proof of just how fucked we are...

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