The Q folk are calling this warpaint in the comments I'm having a stroke
— zeddy (@Zeddary) February 8, 2020
Nope, the hair does not look good. Nor does the foundation. ‘Jest’, or self-delusion?
He has seen the photo and he is upset. https://t.co/vFeLZT3x18
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) February 8, 2020
Snopes has an explainer, of course. The photographer is a ‘Trump enthusiast’ (which is a whole story in itself), not actually affiliated with the WH. Official photos of the same event show the same pale ‘hair halo’, but the color of the face itself is closer to boiled ham than pumpkin pie. Or vivid glow of a setting sun, if that’s what one sees…
This picture was never photoshopped, but used the Apple smartphone’s photo app to adjust the color of the picture.
— White House Photos (@photowhitehouse) February 8, 2020
If any female politician of any party put on their makeup like Trump it would be endless fodder, yet without social media we would never know Trump’s face looked like that because the press is covering for him pic.twitter.com/TvMfkee3Iv
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 8, 2020
There was a widely circulated tweet photoshopping Trump’s face into one of Bugs Bunny’s exploding-cigar cartoons, but Twitter pulled out. No doubt for copyright violations, she said piously.
Hunter Gathers
He looks like he was shot in the face with Homer Simpson’s make up gun when it was set to ‘douchebag’.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
On topic.
dmsilev
I was going to say that he’s a Reptiloid whose human-face mask shrunk a bit in the wash, but then I remembered that Ted Cruz has that lane to himself.
Mike in NC
Photos like this of Fat Bastard convince me that Steve Bannon actually is his bastard son.
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Best reply.
frosty
Not one, but THREE pictures of him in the post? Then two more in the comments?? Aaaarrgghhhh!
ziggy
I bet he’s done some hair transplantation (after the scalp reduction), that would explain his “hair looks good?” comment. It does look fuller on the forehead. Apparently he insists on doing his own makeup and hair color? All very petty and catty, but more fun than thinking about his proposed budget….
Adam L Silverman
@frosty: The beatings will continue until morale approves.
Martin
Isn’t that how Hannibal Lecter escaped from that courthouse jail cell?
HumboldtBlue
Anne Applebaum writes an interesting piece.
ziggy
@HumboldtBlue: I thought this was a lowbrow thread.
Adam L Silverman
@HumboldtBlue:
I realize Dreher’s not too bright and a tool, but exactly what does he think Jesus’s ministry was if it wasn’t about social justice?
HumboldtBlue
@ziggy:
Sorry.
Here you go.
@Adam L Silverman:
Break dancing?
ziggy
@HumboldtBlue: thanks, goodnight :)
NobodySpecial
@Adam L Silverman: White supremacy, even if Jesus son if Joseph didn’t qualify.
Anne Laurie
Telling poor people not to annoy their betters, AFAICT. Jesus said you’d be always with us! What are you, asking for us to share — some kinda commie?
Oh, and telling women to shut up & listen (although if he paid any attention, he’d know that was more a Pauline addition to the canon).
Morzer
Trump seems to be using one of his own steaks as a facial replacement. No wonder it’s too small and looks rancid.
The Dangerman
Are we sure he wasn’t just checking the pilot light in the oven and got a little too close when it flashed? It could be 2nd Degree burns here and we’re making fun of his ability to apply makeup like a trollop.
sukabi
@Adam L Silverman: come on…you know as well as I do that that Jesus dude and his teachings have been treated like a female candidate for US President by “christians” like Dreher.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@HumboldtBlue: Just more of the Wingnut Event Horizon, once they created their own facts an Wingnut reality the rest of us don’t understand was inevitable. The problem the kind of relentless fear they got going is this is likely to end in mass suicide.
MomSense
@Adam L Silverman:
They don’t know the Bible. I have had so many experiences with evangelicals freaking out when I quote passages dealing with economic justice.
HumboldtBlue
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
I just wish they would learn to break dance.
It’d be more fun.
Instead, I read Mary Fulbrook and cringe.
Jager
Speaking of trump, I had my annual physical today, my doc is a smart, black woman, we were chatting and I asked her what she thought trump weighed. She paused for a moment, “With those wide hips and that big ass, 300 maybe more.”
I love my Doc!
opiejeanne
@MomSense: I’ve had them dismiss the Sermon on the Mount as just a favorite of liberals. Noting more.
MomSense
@opiejeanne:
They freak the fuck out with Acts, too.
Speaking of freaking – anyone try the broom thing?
mrmoshpotato
Fuck this shit. He’s a traitorous Soviet shitpile mobster conman who’s been sucking the Kremlin’s asshole since 1987. Fuck the way he looks, he needs to be removed and jailed pending charges for being a traitorous shitpile – and well as his shitpile kids who he’s told fuck knows what.
smike
@mrmoshpotato: Now we’re talkin’!
LesGS
You know he and Melania have a rotten relationship, because she is not sharing her hair and makeup tips. And even if she were, he wouldn’t listen…
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
In Dixville Notch, Bloomberg defeated Sanders by a 2 to 1 margin.
Joey Maloney
Not seeing the downside here, unless they manage to take all the rest of us with them.
John Revolta
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Heh. 3 to 1, in fact! Literally.
NotMax
Not that it means squat, simply FYI –
Mnemosyne
Repeating myself from the thread below:
I just saw some more Bloomberg ads on Facebook and I’m starting to think that people are underestimating one of his biggest draws for Democrats: he is VERY anti-gun and has been supporting groups like Moms Demand for quite a few years. That’s a very appealing message for most Democrats, including African Americans. ?
bluehill
@NotMax: Do they still send reporters to Dixville Notch? I wonder if they feel like Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day?
Martin
@bluehill: Yep. So, they sent every reporter in the country to this little room to watch 5 votes get counted. Bloomberg won 3 of them. So what was the point? The narrative would never be Bloomberg 60% of the vote (or Bernie or anyone else). So why do it? Who gives a shit?
bluehill
@Martin: Hazing for junior reporters?
Cameron
@Anne Laurie: Well, it’s about hating everything and everybody you don’t understand and you’re afraid of.
Nothing to do with this: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A35-40&version=NIV
Ten Bears
Looks like Cheetos dust in its hair too, but I guess only its hairdresser knows fer shur.
Yes, it.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@NotMax: 4 years ago Sanders won 17 of 26 votes. Tonight he only won 4 of 27.
debbie
“Anything to demean!” Really? Isn’t that his campaign strategy?
Also, where’s Melania with her makeup advice? I can’t believe Trump hasn’t forced her to do his makeup for him.
Princess
@Adam L Silverman: Dreher thinks Jesus’s ministry was the establishment and maintenance of white patriarchy. He has that in common with most evangelicals (which he was before his several conversions, I think?)
delk
re Trump’s hair
Thats the side the combover ends up. If the picture was of the other side it would show a ragged part slightly above his ear.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
That’s the problem. Johnstown after all.
artem1s
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
I wrote a term paper on Jim Jones in college. This slavish devotion to this foul imitation of a human being feels a lot like what happened at Jonestown. His followers committed to something that was described as paradise away from lesser non-believers. By the time they realized it was little more than a concentration camp for dumb rubes who gave all their belongings away to the devil, it was too late to get out. I just hope the MAGAs who are more suicidally inclined don’t take
too manythe rest of us with them.laura
@artem1s: your dumb rubes take on Jim Jones’s People’s Temple followers is a bit harsh. The impact of the loss of friends and family in northern California is under the radar but still palpable. While he ended up a paranoid ego-drunk murderer, many of those who moved away simply hoped and were willing to work for a better life and had no intention of leaving the state to kill themselves or their children. Be better please.