This New York Times review of Trump's new portrait will make you cringe

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The New York Times published a lengthy article on Wednesday examining President Donald Trump’s newly released official portrait. It was yet another strangely normalizing report from the Times even as multiple facets of traditional American life are under threat from Trump and his team.

The piece was published in the Times’ “Arts” section and written by “critic at large” Jason Farago. The critic contrasts Trump’s new portrait with his original image and determines that the “subject’s mood has actually brightened.”

While most observers might say that Trump’s image in the new photo is still odd and menacing—especially when compared to images of former Presidents Biden, Obama, and Bush—Farago argues that there is an element of “humor” in the latest portrait.

“The lighting is more head-on. Mr. Trump’s shoulders are relaxed, his affect has softened. His neutral expression is moderated by a slight warmth in the eyes — a classic pose that a younger generation, following the supermodel Tyra Banks, knows to call ‘smizing,’” Farago writes.



https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/4/2326005/-New-York-Times-thinks-Trump-s-new-portrait-shows-his-humor-and-warmth

Guaranteed to scare rats and other vermin away.

[magicarpet]

1. I would rather put a happy face on Satan,...

.... he is far less dangerous to American Democracy.

Is he dead yet ? Hate to rush ya.

[sop]

2. Farago's review is a farrago.

[Hekate]

4. GMTA

[Hekate]

3. I'd like to know what drugs the art critic is taking

[maxrandb]

5. Jane! Jane!!!! Stop this crazy thing!!!!

I really want to get off this fucking circus ride.

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[bob4460]

6. I think he is trying to be a proper cartoon villain

[taxi]

7. May I say it seems to match his character?

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This is the guy that is the face of Trump Wine, I thought. So I looked around for a story about that wine and found this one from Vanity Fair dated February 2018. Here's an excerpt telling how he swindled a widow out of the property, and basically destroyed her ability to market the property at fair value. Yes, by all means no better albatross than this portrait exists.

The real reason Trump helped out his old friend was the chance to buy the estate for a predatory price, so laughably low that the bank which had seized the house kept refusing his offers. So he went around them, buying 217 acres that surrounded the mansion—in effect, the front lawn—from the trustees for Kluge’s adopted son; then the 776-acre vineyard for $6.2 million, plus $1.7 million in equipment and leftover wine; then the mansion itself, for $6.5 million. Kluge had initially put the mansion alone on the market for $100 million. At the time of the sale, Rausse recalls, “she said, ‘Gabriele, don’t worry—he’s my friend.’ ” And, indeed, Trump hired Kluge as director of the winery. A year later, he fired her. Kluge, who now sells jewelry, called Town & Country’s Sam Dangremond last August to dis the wines after Trump made his preposterous claim about the winery’s size. “The wine is not good anymore,” she told Dangremond. “I have had several people in Palm Beach lament that it’s the only wine they have on the menu at Mar-a-Lago.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/donald-trump-wines

[usonian]

8. Which Bond villain?

Goldfinger?



Goes nicely next to Hugo Vance.

[msongs]

9. the ever unctuous and smarmy vd vance is smirking just right nt

[onethatcares]

10. But what will he look like

after the Eloon / donnie cage match?

[chowder66]

11. There's one art critic I will do everything to avoid. He couldn't be more idiotic.

[ornotna]

12. Not too sure about scaring rats away

He seems to attract vermin and welcomes them readily.