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demmiblue

(39,944 posts)
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:00 PM Sep 2025

"I enhanced the image [of Trump]. And seriously, can an expert explain what the hell is happening to his forehead?"

Today’s press pool photo shows Trump leaving the White House this morning.

I enhanced the image. And seriously, can an expert explain what the hell is happening to his forehead? Right above his nose and right brow.

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-09-01T15:49:56.693Z

Some guy with 300k followers posted an ai-hallucinated "enhanced" photo of trump with a weird forehead bump and a bunch of keyboard experts are in the comments trying to make medical diagnoses based off of it. We are so cooked.

Ron Chan (@rondanchan.bsky.social) 2025-09-01T17:35:25.505Z

You'd think they would notice that the American flag has been "enhanced" to remove all the stars. Good ol' stripes and stripes.

Steve Uncle (@the-barely-jew.bsky.social) 2025-09-01T17:57:16.287Z




And, yes, it was posted here.
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"I enhanced the image [of Trump]. And seriously, can an expert explain what the hell is happening to his forehead?" (Original Post) demmiblue Sep 2025 OP
Doesn't look like slobby to me SheltieLover Sep 2025 #1
Me either SL Clouds Passing Sep 2025 #9
Hi Clouds! SheltieLover Sep 2025 #11
How ya Sheltie? Clouds Passing Sep 2025 #12
Tired. Hru? SheltieLover Sep 2025 #14
In need of a nap 😴 Clouds Passing Sep 2025 #15
Go grab a nap then. SheltieLover Sep 2025 #16
WTF Is that Star-Less American Flag All About? MrWowWow Sep 2025 #2
They've filtered out his wrinkles, which looks odd or that's not Trump oregonjen Sep 2025 #3
It is strange the hat is too large bucolic_frolic Sep 2025 #10
Emerging rinoceros horn? Buns_of_Fire Sep 2025 #4
Possibly a lobotomy scar? LastDemocratInSC Sep 2025 #5
Someone thought a lobotomy was an improvement 303squadron Sep 2025 #6
Sarcasm, folks ! The OP is posted as a dig and a rebuttal ... ? stopdiggin Sep 2025 #7
Some cultures would eat monkey brains, and with RFK Jr 'in the loop' anything is possible. ? taxi Sep 2025 #8
Having resubjected myself to looking at his photos (before to compare the nose) THAT is Very weird lookng! electric_blue68 Sep 2025 #13
All the suggestions about AI are right. Ms. Toad Sep 2025 #17
I wouldn't read too much into it canetoad Sep 2025 #18

MrWowWow

(1,461 posts)
2. WTF Is that Star-Less American Flag All About?
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:08 PM
Sep 2025

Never saw a starless American Flag before. Is it a cryptic signal to the MAGAs?

oregonjen

(3,647 posts)
3. They've filtered out his wrinkles, which looks odd or that's not Trump
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:11 PM
Sep 2025

He’s got awful skin and in this pic, his skin looks smooth

bucolic_frolic

(55,840 posts)
10. It is strange the hat is too large
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:55 PM
Sep 2025

They're trying to hide something. Body double? That would be my suspicion.

Buns_of_Fire

(19,222 posts)
4. Emerging rinoceros horn?
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:17 PM
Sep 2025

It looks like somebody who kinda looks like Rump. With an emerging rinoceros horn.

(P.S. Yes, I know how to spell "rhinoceros".)

stopdiggin

(15,639 posts)
7. Sarcasm, folks ! The OP is posted as a dig and a rebuttal ... ?
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:30 PM
Sep 2025

to all the other rather nonsensical ... ?

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taxi

(2,755 posts)
8. Some cultures would eat monkey brains, and with RFK Jr 'in the loop' anything is possible. ?
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:48 PM
Sep 2025

Of course, like RFK Jr., that bridge may have already been crossed.

electric_blue68

(27,329 posts)
13. Having resubjected myself to looking at his photos (before to compare the nose) THAT is Very weird lookng!
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 07:44 PM
Sep 2025
Not at all like his lower forehead features are.

Ms. Toad

(38,824 posts)
17. All the suggestions about AI are right.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 09:44 PM
Sep 2025

This is from a pixelated image taken at a distance. There is no more information to be had, so AI is splitting one pixel into many and trying to interpolate what might have been there.

canetoad

(21,032 posts)
18. I wouldn't read too much into it
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 09:44 PM
Sep 2025

The 'enhancement', probably sharpening, gamma etc will produce some artifacts. That mark above his nose is, I believe, a result of sharpening the deep shadow.

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