General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Is Only One of These People Smiling?
Look at this image closely. Except for Donald Trump, who is wearing an idiotic grin, everyone else in this photo is looking grim. As usual, Trump appears to be clueless. Now, I don't know what happened the second before this photo was taken, but everyone but Trump is looking serious, at a minimum, or is feeling some other emotion.
And Donald Trump grins stupidly. That says it all.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,172 posts)dalton99a
(81,433 posts)MineralMan
(146,284 posts)Melania often displays open contempt for Donald Trump in her facial expressions. It seems clear to me that she harbors an intense dislike for that man. Ivanka is harder to read. Her expression in that photo is completely neutral. Blank.
The Pope, on the other hand, usually smiles during such photo ops. He is certainly not smiling in this one.
gordianot
(15,237 posts)MineralMan
(146,284 posts)in prison to me. Ivanka looks like she simply shut off her switch and is no longer present. The Pope looks worried, but Trump just stands there with a stupid grin on his face.
Very weird group photo, in my opinion.
Motley13
(3,867 posts)MineralMan
(146,284 posts)from the head and face. Both she and Melania look like Spanish prisoners from the 18th century to me.
Grins
(7,205 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)MineralMan
(146,284 posts)Notice in your photo, though, that everyone is smiling, not just the President.
That's why I wanted to post the photo. Clearly they like one another.
TeamPooka
(24,218 posts)Runningdawg
(4,516 posts)MineralMan
(146,284 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Like he is about to destroy something and is happy about it.
MineralMan
(146,284 posts)We've all seen it before.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I can't really put my finger on it, but it really unsettles me. Something about the satanic looking grin on Trump's face and the look of dread on the faces of the others.
MineralMan
(146,284 posts)However, I watched video of that meeting. The Pope was notable in it for not smiling. I suspect he is silently praying for Trump to no longer be President. Melania is pissed off even to be on this trip with him. Ivanka is hard to read. She's pretty good at neutral expressions like the one in this photo. She knows that Trump is in over his head and shouldn't be in that office, I'm sure. But...I'm not sure she can do a damned thing about her father's idiocy.
I'm not a fan of anyone in that photograph. I just find it an interesting snapshot of several unhappy people and a grinning clown.
MFM008
(19,804 posts)And millions of others?
CBO report on his "healthcare"
Plan comes out today...
Can't wait.
Yonnie3
(17,427 posts)on a baby's face just before it farts or poops.
MineralMan
(146,284 posts)"Hey, Pope! I just made in my pants! Ha-ha!"
Uff da!
catbyte
(34,367 posts)His eyes never smile. It gives me the creeps.
MineralMan
(146,284 posts)Trump is disconnected from reality, and reacts according to whatever script is running in his head. He doesn't know what the others' expressions show, but he thinks he's supposed to be smiling for the camera, so he does that.
It is a mindless sort of grin that exposed nothing at all, because there is nothing really going on in that man's brain, really. He is reacting to situations by rote.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)But there are just as many pictures of him scowling like they just told him he is being impeached. He has been in the limelight long enough to know that he is being photographed constantly so, for this trip, I've noticed a lot of the Big Smile. Let's see how much smiling he does when he has to come face to face with NATO members after the nasty remarks he has said in the past about them. Or characterizing Brussels as a "hell hole". His reception there should be ....shall we say? Interesting?? LOL.
RKP5637
(67,102 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,182 posts)Atman
(31,464 posts)She drapes that thing over her head to visit the Pope. Such class.
MagickMuffin
(15,933 posts)Only certain religions merit a headscarf I guess!
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Where King Joffrey does something so crass and cruel that he thinks funny but apalls everyone else.
Chemisse
(30,807 posts)Our own King Joffrey: the evil child king.
Dem_4_Life
(1,765 posts)Melania looks like her soul has left her body and Ivanka is just totally blank. 45 just looks evil and scary.
They better do some serious cleansing of the Vatican when he leaves.
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)Because only one wants to be there.
RKP5637
(67,102 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Javaman
(62,515 posts)the first one is terrified of him
the second is terrified of him
the third one is terrifying
and the forth one, is sick of his shit.