The NYDN used an "interesting" photo of POTUS. Deliberate ?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

The outstanding article that accompanies the photo:

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trump-land-delusion-article-1.4010243

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It's the NYDN, so it was deliberate.

[TheBlackAdder]

55. Balding, with just a hint of chingina.

[SCantiGOP]

2. I thought you said POTUS?

That is definitely POS

[Guilded Lilly]

3. I don't have a reaction to the picture (I try to ignore visuals!)...

But the article (from a Republican strategist) was thoroughly interesting.

[onethatcares]

5. read and agreed with

I just wonder where all this was in 2016.

[Guilded Lilly]

9. Partly because our suspension of disbelief discounted...

the pervasive existence of The Stupid in America?

My brain still hurts about it. My soul still hasn’t healed.

[USALiberal]

7. This place is like Junior High when it comes to insulting appearance. nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. A major newspaper deliberately chose an unflattering photo. Why ?

That's the story.

[USALiberal]

10. Because shallow people like to insult looks and it sells papers I guess. nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. It also shows the low esteem they hold him in.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Goody for you for being above all that childishness.

But the reason Trump is regularly insulted for his looks is that he so often does it to others, especially women. There are plenty of unattractive politicians who never get insulted for their looks because they don't make an issue of appearance (and it's often said that politics is show business for ugly people). The only one I can think of besides Trump is McConnell, and only because he looks a lot like a turtle, which isn't necessarily even an insult.

Trump, on the other hand, is an exceedingly vain man who thinks he's Joe Studmuffin, irresistible to women, despite the fact that he's bald as an egg under that bizarre combover, which he dyes a color ranging somewhere between traffic-vest yellow and urine; he managed to get the now-discredited WH doctor to tell an obvious bald-faced lie about his weight; and he uses makeup or fake tan lotion to color his face orange, apparently laboring under the mistaken belief that orange is the color of a healthy, manly golf-pro tan (has he ever been tested for color-blindness?). He's a hot mess, aesthetically speaking, yet he constantly derides the looks of others. If he weren't so vain himself while being so critical and insulting toward other people, he wouldn't get such a ration of crap about his own appearance.

[pandr32]

20. I totally agree

[PearliePoo2]

22. What an outstanding post! You should take a bow.

If you don't write for a living, you should consider it!

[3Hotdogs]

29. his hair --- "a color ranging somewhere between traffic-vest yellow and urine" Wonderful.

[kag]

31. This!

After the horrible insults hurled at Chelsea Clinton and Michelle Obama, the right deserves every petty insult that creative people like The V.O. can come up with.

(On a personal note, though, this had to have hurt the orange dump. My hair is similarly thinning and I hate when it can be seen so obviously. Yes, it's vanity, but it's still maddening.)

[Eliot Rosewater]

53. 1500 Children RIPPED from their mothers arms being TORTURED I dont give a FUCK

how unflattering a picture they choose, NOTHING a newspaper or photographer CAN DO is remotely important compared to what this vile, filthy fucking fascist TRAITOR is doing to INNOCENT children

[Totally Tunsie]

35. This

[Marie Marie]

38. Bravo V Ocelet

To quote a line from LA Law (I know, many many years ago but it always stuck with me):

When somebody struts around like a peacock, they make an awful pretty target.

[treestar]

44. Yes, it is not the same; with him, he cultivates this

appearance, thinking it makes him incredibly attractive - we're making fun of that, not his natural looks. If he went about with his natural looks, he wouldn't draw this kind of comment.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

48. "But the reason Trump is regularly insulted for his looks is that he so often does it to others..."

For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

-Matthew 7:2

[dixiegrrrrl]

49. So well said.

[bdamomma]

52. Great post

Velveteen Ocelot. So true. I hate the guy.

[Liberalagogo]

33. I'm so sorry that

we can't all be as self-righteous as you.

[Tarc]

39. Don't clutch those pearls too tightly

Fragile things, they are.

[malaise]

15. The New York Daily News knows how to deal with the Con

They are the best at this - they know him well.

[ginnyinWI]

42. They know him.

All of New York knows him, going back decades. It's only his new "fans" who don't see or care about what he has been his whole life. A con man and fraud.

[sarge43]

37. If Trump were capable of empathy or compassion,

these posts could be considered cruel and juvenile. However, he's spent his life being cruel and juvenile, so ...

don't want shit, Trump? Don't start shit.

By the way, that creep has allowed the federal government (you know, our government) to take children away from their families without compelling reason or due process, lock those children away and then loose track of them.

At its lowest register English can be a rough language, but even it doesn't contain the proper words to describe a monster who could allow that.

[WhiteTara]

27. Rick Wilson is a wonderful writer and he's

even better on a news panel. He pulls no punches, ever.

[dalton99a]

4. Great piece

And stupid piece of hair on stupid piece of shit

[Cha]

6. He looks like dried up

doggie shite.

[Kirk Lover]

12. Yeah he's even conning the people that he has a full head o' hair. nt

[dawg day]

36. I saw a photoshop one of his fans made--

Him as Superman, Superman S on his chest, full head of blonde hair, huge biceps, manly pecs-- and for some reason, a golden bushy beard.

It was so ridiculous-- and yet, it seemed entirely earnest, like this is the way the minion saw him, as a 32-year-old superpowered bodybuilder with tremendous testosterone-fueled beard-growing ability.

And very, very Aryan.

[bitterross]

40. I can believe that's exactly how they have him in their minds.

They are fucking delusional as all hell so that makes total sense. They've gone from supporter to cultists worshiping their demi-god. It is disturbing and very frightening.

I'm beginning to become concerned about the violence that will happen once he is taken down. He will become their martyr.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

45. Hitler's ideal of perfection looked nothing like him either.

[MoonRiver]

13. LOL, BALDIE OUTED!

[malaise]

14. Everything he says is as fake as his belief that he is not bald

[ornotna]

23. Don't be mean. He's not bald.

That's a wraparound forehead.

[Mc Mike]

17. Right. So when arguing alt-reality with dRump fans, all we have to do is say

"and he has a great big beautiful head of hair, too." And then walk away.

[JI7]

18. That's probably the least worst pic they had

[snort]

19. How'd they get a pic of my ass wearing a wig?

[kag]

32. Oh, snort...

I've never seen it, but I'm quite certain your ass is vastly more attractive than that slightly hairy mole rat.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

21. He puts a lot of effort into that hair!

[Roy Rolling]

24. Perfect Picture

It illustrates the content of the article---things up close are odd. As odd as an old man with hair sewn to his head. You don't see that every day.

[Demovictory9]

25. his bangs are super thin. Like one hair thick.

[PearliePoo2]

26. Great article! It's going to (almost) everybody in my e-mail address account.nt.

[yonder]

28. Thanks for the post, especially the link.

Rick Wilson writes another good one

[apkhgp]

30. We are supposed to be smarter than this

Old news here
I saw the CNN interview that Jake Tapper did some time after 45 declared his candidacy. He said he had no idea who David Duke was or anything about this KKK organization. At first I could not believe that a candidate could say that kind of stuff. I went on the CNN website and Jake Tapper laid it out in a written article.

Either 45 is an idiot or he thinks the citizens are idiots.

I know that he thinks we are idiots. I have been frustrated and angered about that ever since. He conned 62 million people into voting for him. His immediate reaction to the election results was one of surprise that con job actually worked. Like I said we are supposed to be smarter than this. We can not permit jerks like this, the Russians or anybody else subvert our election system.

[ismnotwasm]

34. Literal Dickhead

[heaven05]

41. very interesting

and complete view of a delusional potus. Ours, now.

[samnsara]

43. good lord those long ass plugs go half way down his face!

...hes got a seam!

[Alwaysna]

46. Reminds me of

A fluffy dandelion head except dandelion head is smarter.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

47. He is so freaking vain. He just should have bought a good hairpiece.

I had a gf who worked in that industry so I know the little giveaways that your average person wouldn't notice. You would be surprised how many celebrities wear hairpieces.

Trump is so vain he fashions his sparse hair and the results of his scalp reduction to get that effect.

[bdamomma]

54. I heard

he keeps his bedroom door locked in the WH, can you imagine what he looks like and he changes his own sheets, incontinence perhaps.

[ck4829]

50. Kick

[lunatica]

51. Of course it's deliberate

It’s not like there’s a shortage of photos of Trump.