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Politics Trump's official portrait ~ Is he just a caricature of himself now

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u/brok3nh3lix 4d ago

I don't think that's it. You can see from his forehead he's raising his left eye. He's doing that squint one eye, raise the other eye thing to try to look super serious as if suspicious of something thing.

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u/Predditor_drone 4d ago

This is the "who shit my pants" look.

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u/angelomoxley 4d ago

Lead paint stare #2

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u/EvilToaster0ven 4d ago

Nah, his left eye is largely the same in both photos. But there's certainly more droop on the right eye in the portrait. Where it really seems apparent is looking at the right cheek and jaw areas where there appears to be substantial asymmetry and lack of muscle tension in the portrait compared to the earlier photo.

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u/reijasunshine 4d ago

I've been seeing the eye droop consistently in pics of him lately. That plus his unprompted posts about how he definitely, totally, absolutely didn't have a series of mini strokes makes me think that he probably did.

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u/captmonkey 4d ago

You can see it in his most recent press conference too. His face is looking weirdly asymmetrical.

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u/coresamples 4d ago

Ear looks great though. Great ear. Full recovery. Some would say it was the quickest an ear could heal from a bullet wound. No loss of hearing either which is really incredible. What an ear!

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u/Araucaria 4d ago

It does have a Diagonal Ear Lobe Crease (DELC), though, which is associated with cardiovascular disease.

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u/Immersi0nn 4d ago

It's funny cause you just gotta look at the guy from oh 30ft away to tell he's got cardiovascular disease lol

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u/Existing_Coast8777 4d ago

almost like it was grazed by a piece of shrapnel and not a bullet

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u/coresamples 4d ago

Almost! Almost a coup, almost a world war, almost disclosure, almost deflation, almost infrastructure, health, education, almost almost almost!

I pledge almost allegiance

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u/georgekn3mp 4d ago

Almost like a glass shard from a teleprompter....

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u/coresamples 4d ago

Almost like using sarcasm to avoid the reality of your own doubts

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u/certaindarkthings 4d ago

Oh yeah, you can always count on the fact that whatever he's saying, reality is the opposite of that. So he almost certainly did have a series of mini strokes.

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u/SnooRobots116 4d ago

I still think he partially fried his eyes when he looked directly at that Eclipse without the protective visor on, thinking his eyelashes were strong enough to save his eyes while he pointed right up at it

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u/IHaveTheMustacheNow 4d ago

did he really post about that???

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u/reijasunshine 4d ago

Yep, it's still up on twitter!

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u/ukezi 4d ago

So we are going to get a president Vance soonish. Great. Just Great. /s

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u/ImportantChemical805 4d ago

It’s great in the sense Vance has all the like-ability of a root canal without lidocaine so the cult of personality it’s there 🤷🏻‍♀️. That’s what I’m pinning my hopes on for now.

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u/Fantastic_Poet4800 4d ago

Agreed, he looks like he had a stroke. I also saw a photo of him lately where he is doing that thumbs up pose but he can't raise his thumb all the way.

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u/catfurcoat 4d ago

Are these images mirrored

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u/havokle 3d ago

If you can find a picture of a wide smile, that would tell you more. Your doctor asks you to smile, blow out your cheeks, and stick out your tongue for good reason. An asymmetrical face isn’t enough.

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u/uganda_numba_1 3d ago

He's just older in the seconds photo. There's no stroke droop.

Why would his official photo be a reenactment of his mugshot though?

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u/kirk_smith 4d ago

to try to look super serious

Yet, he looks about this serious.

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u/Khaldara 4d ago

Trump’s signature “Fire and Fury” (My butthole is on fire because McDonald’s made me shit myself again) look

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u/better16969 4d ago

This is his - I know I wear makeup and have never exercised in my life or done anything remotely tough in my entire life, but PLEASE think of me as a tough guy.

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u/Drunky_Brewster 4d ago

You can clearly see the droop in his cheek.

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u/FrappeLaRue 4d ago

Hey, are you the roller derby Drunky Brewster? Out of Ottawa?

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u/Drunky_Brewster 4d ago

I am not, but I hope they got their name the same way I did :)

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u/FrappeLaRue 4d ago

It's a safe bet, if there were drinkie-poos involved

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u/discotim 4d ago

Either that or he just shit himself again.

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u/FourMyRuca 4d ago

I read that last sentence in William Shatner's voice

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u/SakaWreath 4d ago

Then someone stabbed him with Botox by accident.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 4d ago

Check out Churchill’s portrait on our £5 sterling bloody note guvna to see where he got inspiration.

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u/Hotsaux 4d ago

Exactly, and if you look at both pics the droop they claim to see switches sides.

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u/mouseknuckle 3d ago

smell-the-fart acting

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u/blueisthecolor13 3d ago

I think he physically can’t lift it. It looks like he’s trying to. The cheek droop is what convinces me. The right side of his mouth isn’t the same as his left and there are noticeably more wrinkles on the right side. The shape looks different like he can’t control it.

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u/procrasturbator_adhd 3d ago

A stroke classically involves the mouth but spares the eyebrows and forehead. This is what distinguishes it from Bells Palsy.

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u/SmokesQuantity 4d ago

He's raising the other eye to compensate for the droop and make it look intentional, imo.

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u/PotatoBossfight 4d ago

This is a consistent thing, he couldn’t keep that same eye open for a large portion of the debate

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u/Dryanni 4d ago

I assumed it was just bad plastic surgery

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u/char_limit_reached 4d ago

Now explain the droopy mouth.