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[–] TheLurker@lemmy.world 142 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Only someone from a silver spoon, gated community upbringing would look at that mugshot and think "he looks hard".

He looks like a pouty little brat. 🤣

[–] sab@kbin.social 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I love this mugshot because for the first time in a long long time, America is united. Everyone loves it.

The Republicans think he looks like a bad mother fucker, a political martyr, simultaneously Jesse James and Robin Ford, a Churchill that will fight till the bitter end and a Spartacus up against the corrupt elites.

The rest of us think he looks like a pathetic moron on his way to prison.

Either way America stands, for once, united.

[–] TheLurker@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So basically his mugshot is like some weird fucked up rorschach test that tells you where someone falls on the political spectrum? 🤔

[–] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Tbh hasn't that just been the entirety of Trump for the last decade?

[–] silverbax@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I first saw it, I could not help but laugh. It's so clearly a guy who looks shaken, hoping he looks 'tough'. And, his eyes are red, so I assume he was crying just before the shot.

[–] Hoomod@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw one article that said he didn't blink while he was there

So, probably drugs of some sort

[–] TheLurker@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

More likely, paid advertisement. 🤣

[–] TheLurker@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I never noticed the red eyes before. That just makes it even funnier.

This is a post tantrum pouty brat. 🤣

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I'm not gay, but" is the "I'm not racist, but" of sexuality.

[–] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Methinks the gentleman doth protest too much.

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Don't really think that works unless the comment involved is a complaint.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's okay, Jesse, you can open up that closet door and come out when you're ready. Nobody whose opinion is worth a damn will think any less of you for that specific aspect of who you are.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

heh. Anyone who has to qualify a statement with "I say this with an unblemished record of heterosexuality"... probably should just stop talking.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Not knowing when to stop talking is exactly how he got his job at Fox News 

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] lingh0e@lemmy.film 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Hanabie@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More like he looked soft, like geriatric skin wobbling around the fat tissue of his neck.

[–] WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i think he looks scared. just look at his eyes

[–] Miqo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know that look. My cats make it when they're shitting.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Take a shit anywhere with Depends

[–] norbert@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I immediately thought he looked like he'd been crying.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

His eyes were either red from drugs/alcohol (which he claims he doesn't touch) or from crying. I can't think of another explanation.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Face down, eyes up, half sad face, half "you can't me mad at me" smile.

He looks like a dog that shat on the floor and knows you're mad about it.

[–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

He's doing the Kubrick stare which shows that the character has reached peak derangement. I'll hand it to Trump, though, he's a natural at looking deranged. It's like he's had a lot of practice or something.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 20 points 1 year ago

Why add a conditional to your statement, it's just weird.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

These people are so stupid.

[–] ChamrsDeluxe@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why does this Jesse Waters guy look like Caesar Flickerman

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago

I actually am gay, and in my professional opinion Trump looked like he was about to cry.

[–] Hairyblue@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Jesse may not be gay, but he'll service Trump because Jesse is a tool--like a public fleshlight.

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Suck his dick already Jesse.

[–] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

"Trump is now the ultimate gangsta" - Dinesh D'souza

The convicted felon recognizes the superior criminal.

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Be a good gay and take it in your mouth Jesse. Daddy’s cock ain’t gonna suck itself.

[–] thrawn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I don’t believe him. I’m pretty sure Trump wants it to look cool so badly that his gaggle of self serving leeches is happy to pretend. I tried really hard to see even the threatening version, and there are heavily photoshopped pictures of him that look kind of cool, but I can’t see anything but reluctantly admitting he shit his pants to Jeff Sessions

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm not even sure I believe him about the "in a heterosexual way" part.

[–] Yepthatsme@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Roger Ailes being dead is such a great thing. I hope he’s suffering a lot.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

He might mean the other definition possibly. Who knows with Watters.

[–] WytchStar@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They see what they want to see.

[–] flipht@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

They also say whatever they think other people want to see, even if they know better.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

He looks “hard” because the Cialis hadn’t worn off. His eyes are red because urine tends to do that.

[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[–] whataboutshutup 2 points 1 year ago

$20... is $20...