Trump and Vance's Official Portraits Are as Ugly as It Gets

[Celerity]

Donald Trump is so lame he basically recreated his mugshot in his presidential portrait.

https://newrepublic.com/post/190351/trump-vance-official-presidential-portraits

https://web.archive.org/web/20250117001104/https://newrepublic.com/post/190351/trump-vance-official-presidential-portraits



Donald Trump and JD Vance debuted new presidential and vice presidential portraits Thursday and, boy, are they weirdly sinister.

Daniel Torok, the president-elect’s chief photographer, revealed the portraits on X Wednesday evening. “We are entering the GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA,” Torok wrote.

Link to tweet

“They go hard,” wrote Trump’s transition team in a press release hyping the official portraits.

Clearly, the purpose of these photographs was to evoke some kind of masculine energy that would delight the manosphere. In Trump’s portrait, the president-elect went for a glowering stare reminiscent of his unsettlingly viral 2023 mugshot taken in Fulton County jail, which has appeared on everything from a commemorative $2 bill to NFT trading cards sold by the president-elect and his buddies.



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[LeftInTX]

1. Vance's isn't bad, but Trump's is horrific

[Celerity]

7. Vance

[LeftInTX]

9. He always looks like that, so that's why I say it isn't bad. It's not bad for him because he has a bit of smile

Trump looks like an ogre.

[Ocelot II]

2. Not just ugly. Vance looks like he's either possessed by a particularly nasty demon

or stoned on opioids (pinpoint pupils), or maybe both. Trump is doing his phony tough-guy shtick. They both look ridiculous.

[C_U_L8R]

3. What's with the uplighting?

He looks like he's trying to tell spooky stories around the campfire. What a pathetic clown.

[Ocelot II]

5. Exactly. It's like when little kids gather in their blanket fort and tell ghost stories

while shining a flashlight upward onto their faces. Bwahahahaha! So scary!

[Dave Bowman]

4. This would be far more accurate:

[Vinca]

6. Looks like a con and a serial killer.

[WestMichRad]

8. Not gonna look!

[RainCaster]

10. GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA- think Golden Showers

Is the photographer reminding up of the peepee tapes?

[Shermann]

13. The Golden Showers Age of America will be a refresh of trickle-down economics. nt

[Dave Bowman]

21. His idole Adolf was also a golden (sometimes brown) showers enthusiast.

Now that I think about it, ambassador Stalone is also a fan.

[LeftInTX]

11. Is this a ploy to get people to avoid the Post Office and Social Security Offices???

[Tommy Carcetti]

12. Heather from The Blair Witch Project was responsible for the lighting in Trump's photo.

And Vance's face appears to be biologically rejecting his eyes.

[Mossfern]

14. Lol

So on point!

[Oopsie Daisy]

15. Cartoonishly ridiculous.

[uppityperson]

16. Looks like Don had a stroke that affected his right side, eye and mouth are uneven, drooping

[Think. Again.]

17. How can trump not be embarrassed by that?

It's sooo..... Bullshitty.

[William Seger]

24. I'd fire that photographer

[Think. Again.]

25. Yes, and the model too.

[SunImp]

18. Baron Fartkonen & Feyd Rasputin

[LeftInTX]

19. Vance is wearing light colored contacts. He has been for quite some time. The contacts give off a weird vibe.

Otherwise, he looks OK. It's Trump that looks demented.

I still think Vance has had his nose done.

[Deep State Witch]

20. Vance Looks Over-Exposed

Like someone put it into Photoshop and turned up the brightness. I guess they're trying to avoid the "Shady Vance" moniker.

[William Seger]

26. Yeah, they both do (but I bet JD is feeling underexposed since muskrat showed up)

And yeah, the RAW format photo would need to be edited in Photoshop, and that format gives you a lot of control over apparent exposure, so apparently the photographer wanted that high contrast look. That's why I would fire him.

[Buns_of_Fire]

22. He's chosen his perpetually-pissed-off "badass" persona.

Which might be more believable if the world didn't already know he's a big wuss.

[William Seger]

28. It looks like someone asked generative AI to create a picture...

... of someone who is narrow-minded, short-sighted, self-obsessed, willfully ignorant, mean-spirited and callous.

[LudwigPastorius]

23. Trump glowers with his head down like that to...

cover up his neck pussy.

[C0RI0LANUS]

29. Oof!

[Donkees]

27. That's his usual Lloyd Bridges impersonation

[pfitz59]

30. Imagine working in the post office

seeing that ugly mug glaring at you every day! Someone is going to snap!

[C0RI0LANUS]

31. This is my favorite portrait of our new President which was taken at Mar-A-Lago.

[Paladin]

32. Ugliest official portraits EVER.

Think of the sort of mindsets it takes to approve such nasty mugs for public consumption. Further (unneeded) proof of just how fucked we are...