Posted on 01/17/2025 5:09:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Tech billionaires, corporate chieftains and stars such as Carrie Underwood are flocking to Washington to fete Donald J. Trump. There has been such a stampede of big-money donors that his inaugural committee has run out of V.I.P. tickets and perks. And yet here is the president-elect, positively glaring in the official photograph his aides released on Thursday in advance of his inauguration.
The image, which will be printed inside the programs his supporters will clutch in their shivering hands come Monday morning, does not exactly scream celebration. Mr. Trump is shown sternly squinting, bathed in eerie, David Lynchian lighting from below, high-powered strobes reflected in his eyes. One entertainment photographer said the lighting and technique is reminiscent of the photographer Jill Greenberg’s controversial “End Times” series of crying children.
Whereas other men on the cusp of the presidency have offered anodyne, smiling inaugural images, the photo revealed on Thursday was — as with all things Trump — dramatic and startling. It is certainly reminiscent of the purposeful pose he struck for his 2024 mug shot, taken by the Fulton County, Georgia, sheriff’s office in that state’s election interference case.
Asked to interpret the president-elect’s expression in his inauguration photo, his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, replied: “America. Is. Back.”
As a subject, Mr. Trump “knows what he’s looking for,” said Shealah Craighead, the chief White House photographer during his first administration. “He’s very hands-on. He will ask to see the photos on the back of the camera or on a computer screen while it’s happening in real time so he can decide if it’s headed in the right direction. If he likes what he sees, then he will ask to see tangible paper prints rather than on a computer.”
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I can think of a hundred reasons why. And it’s the best pic of PDJT ever. Even better than the one from the Fulton County mug shot.
I agree.
The NY Times, lying as usual and pretending they don’t know why President Trump looks so serious!
I can see why the New York Times thinks he’s glaring. I can see that as they lose readers by the thousands they should be afraid Trump and MAGA will be the final nail in their coffin.
That reminds me of a "Far Side" cartoon where a couple of men are standing at the ramparts of a castle and one of them is saying--"Here come Vikings--and they mean business." The Vikings are all carrying brief cases.
From the aspect angle and pose, I thought the Trump White House DID duplicate up and dress up his Fulton County GA mug shot. To remind everybody what evil we still have to fight.
Martin Luther King did write some of his better-known works from a southern county jail.
“The Times can’t tell a “glare” from a look of strength. Of course.”
The picture of president Trump looks very similar to pictures of Winston Churchill.
Anytime the NYT is being critical, someone is doing something positive for humanity.
The Slimes is just so accustomed to the glassy-eyed drooling of Jotato that anyone who appears semi-lucid, never mind assertive and tough, is scawwy to them.
I wish I owned stock in Depends.
Hey fish wrap...consider it a Sicilian message.
Hey, Don, so sorry about trying to stick knives in your back repeatedly before the election.
Et tu Brute.
Touche, with that photo. The NYT once again proves that it is only smelly, repulsive liars who work for it.
No more Mister Nice Guy.
Dark Brandon Rises
“…and that orange guy, Trump, doesn’t wanna visit my from
two friends here, Mr. Iron and Mr. Steel…!
No surprise the omegas at the NY Slimes don’t recognize an Alpha male.
Because he’s pi$$ed at what Biden has done to this country during his term. The image is a “I’m coming for you” stare.
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