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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone read body language?
I notice that Trump has lost the excitement behind his eyes. It just feels like he's going through the motions. Every time I see him, it looks like he doesn't have the energy to open those heavy globby eyelids of his. Too much effort.
Anyone else notice it?
Walleye
(44,807 posts)And he seems really tired. Not as tired as we are of him of course
question everything
(52,134 posts)Ahpook
(2,777 posts)He just signs whatever comes across his desk at this point from the 2025/Putin angle.
His serious legal problems are behind him. He's floating!
magicarpet
(18,513 posts)The quid pro quo is,....
1.) You can award yourself as many government contracts as you want and bypass the competitive bidding rules.
2.) YOu can ransack all the government data bases and copy those files to your external hard drives. Then once the data is in the hands of exterior sources you can use the data for your Artificial Intelligence Algorithms to make billions and billions of income selling that data all over the world.
Tree Lady
(13,282 posts)I wonder if they made it thinking of him as the president does nothing but screw women and gets bored at any cabinet meetings. He says to his chief of staff, can't you do the meetings for me?
He has people followed, killed, etc
travelingthrulife
(5,179 posts)He only ran to stay out of jail.
wcmagumba
(6,179 posts)The real puppet masters (Muskrat & others) keep him going with some kind of extra help...IMO
Diamond_Dog
(40,578 posts)But it does seem he is more sour and uninterested in his privileged life lately. I hope it takes a major toll on him.
AloeVera
(4,263 posts)I noticed it too. He has the expression of someone in pain and mental anguish. Fear maybe. Even sadness ffs! His eyes especially.
I can't figure it out. I can only guess that maybe he knows he's going to fail again and it will all come crashing down? So he's sorry for himself. He is terrified of humiliation and failure, as we know.
allegorical oracle
(6,480 posts)AloeVera
(4,263 posts)My Mom takes the same statin. No effect on her facial mien that I've noticed.
I think it's psychological, for Trump. He looks miserable and sad.
moniss
(9,056 posts)is now no longer recommended because the benefits outweigh the risks for damage to the stomach. Here's a blurb about it from a 2022 article:
"The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of physicians who review scientific research to develop guidelines to improve Americans health, published new recommendations on April 26 advising against daily aspirin use for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in people age 60 and older."
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/daily-aspirin-no-longer-recommended-to-prevent-heart-disease
AloeVera
(4,263 posts)It's news to me and I will look into it further. My Mom is on Aspirin therapy too. And she has stomach issues too!
griloco
(870 posts)....so how could they be right?"
EndlessWire
(8,103 posts)Sneederbunk
(17,494 posts)allegorical oracle
(6,480 posts)and b) didn't want anybody to yell at me for offending pigs. But pig-eye donnie works for me.
FoxNewsSucks
(11,704 posts)anus-mouth

SheltieLover
(80,468 posts)He is puckering up for pootin's ass.
bif
(27,000 posts)On an IG account I have?
FoxNewsSucks
(11,704 posts)image every time that piece of shit is given airtime.
alterfurz
(2,681 posts)Your call as to whose eye is the more soulful: Pig (top) or Trump?

Tribetime
(7,145 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(11,704 posts)ZDU
(1,265 posts)Tickle
(4,131 posts)As much as we like to think he is. tRump is done. He won, in his head. The next four years he's going to do what ever the F he wants.
Orrex
(67,111 posts)Tickle
(4,131 posts)and it is alarming. Sometimes I just want to move out but I'm not leaving my grandchildren 😔😔
William769
(59,147 posts)Blue Full Moon
(3,485 posts)GoCubsGo
(34,914 posts)Allegedly, he likes to snort various crushed pills, including Adderal and Sudafed. He also spent a lot of time in the 1980s in the club scene, with his pal Jeffrey. A lot of the Studio 54 crowed loved their booger sugar, and word has it Trump was part of that crowd. I wouldn't be surprised if he dips into Junior's stash. A lifetime of that, and it's no wonder he's constantly sniffing.
AdamGG
(1,882 posts)because on the days when it's especially overdone, it's hard to believe that someone else would do it that badly. It makes sense that with his drugs that he has his own stash and is hitting the Adderall or whatever based on his cravings at the time.
Irish_Dem
(81,271 posts)Ms. Toad
(38,640 posts)Those things make a dramatic change in his appearance.
Bayard
(29,693 posts)Its all gray, all the time now. Maybe he thinks it makes him look more presidential.....
Ms. Toad
(38,640 posts)It certainly looks more consistently light/white. The color used to swing pretty wildly, depending on how long it was from his last dye job - or how long he could tolerate sitting waiting for the dye to soak in.
And I think he used to include his eyebrows - the bright white eyebrows make a significant difference in his appearance.
barbtries
(31,308 posts)Escape
(469 posts)to have to physically be around him every day.
His rudeness, instability, narcissism, stupidity and smell. As much as I hate his Sycophant Squad, they are earning their money.
Working with him every day would be like being caged with a syphilitic ape.
Sky Jewels
(9,148 posts)would be the hardest to take. He is seriously the most repulsive person on the planet in every way.
What do you have against syphilitic apes?😜
Rebl2
(17,742 posts)noticed that at times in pictures of him. I dont watch videos of him speaking because I cant stand his voice or what he says.
markodochartaigh
(5,545 posts)But. Look at the two boys in blue jackets behind Whisky Pete.
Baitball Blogger
(52,346 posts)There was a six to eight second clip leading up to this presser where that young, thin one with light brown hair looked like he was terribly distressed, as if his father lost his cool for a moment.
travelingthrulife
(5,179 posts)from the Defense Secretary is wildly inappropriate.
How are there so many of these terrible people? Evangelical christian I presume. What is in their training that makes them so revolting?
BamaRefugee
(3,884 posts)NNadir
(38,049 posts)LudwigPastorius
(14,725 posts)That's the lithium doing its work.
GoCubsGo
(34,914 posts)Allegedly.
Warpy
(114,615 posts)than they were all counting on because he's had to scale back the crippling taxes/tariffs he thought the rest of us would be socked with to pay for them. At that point, there will be nothing left for him to do except bullshit and bluster and he's going to be losing interest even in that.
.As soon as the scaled back tax cut goes through, he'll be through. It's why I don't think he'll last his full term. It will interfere too much with his golfing schedule.
AverageOldGuy
(3,835 posts)He's never had to deal with conflicting proposals. His staff has always solved problems and made decisions for him. He has never had to deal with deadlines. Mainly, he has never been in a position in which he must deal with people who have as much power as he does.
He's a mob boss -- he sits on the top of the pile and when he says "Shit!" everyone asks "How much and what color."
I notice he's on the golf course at least weekly. That's where he is king and when he holes out in 3 over par, everyone congratulates him on his hole-in-one.
xuplate
(207 posts)BigmanPigman
(55,143 posts)narcissist and he's bored that his daddy Satan as well as Putin and Kim aren't helping him out more. He is BORED!!! He does NOT CARE!!!
Demobrat
(10,299 posts)Thanks for the hopium.
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)Project 2025 was written and funded by psychos waiting to do this to our country since FDR, trump was the perfect big ego patsy go take the bait as the dictator, but he answers to them and Russia.
It's not going to be an easy fight, Americans don't roll over, we are resilient and we will keep fighting for our country until there is nothing left to fight for.
Orrex
(67,111 posts)C_U_L8R
(49,384 posts)He shuts down in denial rather than fix the mess he's made. He's not well.
GreenEyedLefty
(2,116 posts)he is conspicuously absent from the public square, overall.
His narcissistic supply is low. No rallies that I have seen. His poll numbers (approval/disapproval) are not as good as he had hoped. It's clear that he has handlers now.
Sad. So sad.
unblock
(56,198 posts)One of the reasons I would not be surprised if someday it cones out that they cheated and Harris would have won if they counted the votes fairly.
I'm in Connecticut, obviously a blue state, but I know what a winning campaign looks like, I know what a losing campaign looks like, and I know what a too close to call race looks like.
This one had all the markings of a Harris win. Donnie was low energy, lackluster, didn't seem to care. Reminded me of when poppy bush checked his watch during a debate. Like he really had no interest in being there.
He's continued to give that vibe. Barely there while musk was in the Oval Office, looking more like a bored school kid at his desk than a president, etc. the most lively he's been since the election was when he was insulting Zelenskyy.
Bottom line. He's a pathetic loser, and inside, he knows it.
bif
(27,000 posts)Of him signing one Executive Order after another while a stooge stood behind him explaining what he's signing says it all. They weren't even embarrassed to televise that. Wow!
Ping Tung
(4,370 posts)