Or is it?
Looks like it to me, in the one where he is looking straight ahead. In the other, I don’t see it at all.
More tech savvy FReepers I am sure, can and will find out for certain ; }
Regardless, as others have mentioned, I think it is a tactic to humanize our dear leader, to change the mental image to a reminder of “what a nice young man” he was. Not. Ever.