Oddly enough it’s he that appears to be afraid of something...>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yes Fred, he is very afraid....he is a mere figure head. This is not the face of a free man.It is the face of a subjugated man.
No good will come from this fakery.
It will not end well.
The snake will swallow its tail.
The distance between mouth and nose, palstic surgery. Is it skeletal do you think? Weird.
He's 12 years older...if he's had a nip and tuck, it must have been done behind the ears, you can't see any scarring. The earlobes appear to be sagging. He seems to have lost weight. Looking at a range of recent photographs, it would appear he is deeply depressed. That's a side effect of dementia - with which I do have a certain amount of first hand experience, in family. The pupils of his eyes don't appear to be dilated, it is the iris that seems to be darker.
A simple explanation might be that he wears contact lenses...perhaps tinted.
Those reading glasses aren't very flattering: