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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-elect’s 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 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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LeftInTX
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LeftInTX
(32,761 posts)Trump looks like an ogre.
Ocelot II
(124,008 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
(46,926 posts)He looks like he's trying to tell spooky stories around the campfire. What a pathetic clown.
Ocelot II
(124,008 posts)while shining a flashlight upward onto their faces. Bwahahahaha! So scary!
Dave Bowman
(4,891 posts)
Vinca
(51,834 posts)WestMichRad
(2,198 posts)RainCaster
(12,505 posts)Is the photographer reminding up of the peepee tapes?
Shermann
(8,896 posts)Dave Bowman
(4,891 posts)Now that I think about it, ambassador Stalone is also a fan.
LeftInTX
(32,761 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(43,833 posts)And Vance's face appears to be biologically rejecting his eyes.
Mossfern
(3,670 posts)So on point!
Oopsie Daisy
(5,576 posts)uppityperson
(115,920 posts)Think. Again.
(22,330 posts)It's sooo..... Bullshitty.
William Seger
(11,509 posts)Think. Again.
(22,330 posts)SunImp
(2,465 posts)LeftInTX
(32,761 posts)Otherwise, he looks OK. It's Trump that looks demented.
I still think Vance has had his nose done.
Deep State Witch
(11,687 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
(11,509 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
(18,281 posts)Which might be more believable if the world didn't already know he's a big wuss.
William Seger
(11,509 posts)... of someone who is narrow-minded, short-sighted, self-obsessed, willfully ignorant, mean-spirited and callous.
LudwigPastorius
(12,050 posts)cover up his neck pussy.
C0RI0LANUS
(3,015 posts)Donkees
(32,735 posts)
pfitz59
(11,422 posts)seeing that ugly mug glaring at you every day! Someone is going to snap!
C0RI0LANUS
(3,015 posts)
Paladin
(29,974 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...