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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-elects chief photographer, revealed the portraits on X Wednesday evening. We are entering the GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA, Torok wrote.
Link to tweet
They go hard, wrote Trumps 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 Trumps 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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LeftInTX
(31,292 posts)LeftInTX
(31,292 posts)Trump looks like an ogre.
Ocelot II
(121,904 posts)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)He looks like he's trying to tell spooky stories around the campfire. What a pathetic clown.
Ocelot II
(121,904 posts)while shining a flashlight upward onto their faces. Bwahahahaha! So scary!
Dave Bowman
(4,082 posts)Vinca
(51,373 posts)WestMichRad
(1,942 posts)RainCaster
(11,754 posts)Is the photographer reminding up of the peepee tapes?
Shermann
(8,755 posts)Dave Bowman
(4,082 posts)Now that I think about it, ambassador Stalone is also a fan.
LeftInTX
(31,292 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(43,630 posts)And Vance's face appears to be biologically rejecting his eyes.
Mossfern
(3,328 posts)So on point!
Oopsie Daisy
(4,744 posts)uppityperson
(115,886 posts)Think. Again.
(19,881 posts)It's sooo..... Bullshitty.
William Seger
(11,173 posts)Think. Again.
(19,881 posts)SunImp
(2,380 posts)LeftInTX
(31,292 posts)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)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)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)Which might be more believable if the world didn't already know he's a big wuss.
William Seger
(11,173 posts)... of someone who is narrow-minded, short-sighted, self-obsessed, willfully ignorant, mean-spirited and callous.
LudwigPastorius
(11,271 posts)cover up his neck pussy.
C0RI0LANUS
(2,388 posts)Donkees
(32,519 posts)pfitz59
(11,094 posts)seeing that ugly mug glaring at you every day! Someone is going to snap!
C0RI0LANUS
(2,388 posts)Paladin
(29,102 posts)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...