Trump: 'I always look orange'

[left-of-center2012]

President Trump knocked light bulb efficiency standards on Thursday during a House Republican retreat, telling attendees that the new lights made him look "orange."
"People said, 'what's with the light bulb?' And I said 'here's the story,' and I looked at it...The bulb that we're being forced to use, number one, to me most importantly, the light's no good. I always look orange," Trump said, to laughter.

"And so do you, the light is the worst," Trump added. "I'm not a vain person. ... But I look better under an incandescent light than these crazy lights that are beaming down," he said at a rally in Fayetteville.

His remarks come after the administration finalized the reversal of the Obama administration's efficiency standards on light bulbs last week, and days after he made similar comments at a North Carolina rally. The standards rolled back by the Trump administration allow for the production of bulbs that require more power to light, which critics say will hasten the effects of climate change by increasing U.S. energy usage.

“This rule does not prevent consumers from buying the lamps they desire, including efficient options,” the Department of Energy wrote last week. “The market is successfully transitioning to LEDs regardless of government regulation. Consumers are clearly taking advantage of the energy savings provided by LEDs.”

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/461251-trump-on-energy-efficient-light-bulbs-i-always-look-orange

[tanyev]

1. "I'm not vain. It's not my fault that I'm 73 and still look exactly the same as I did at 35."

[tavernier]

17. Only in his dreams.

[Funtatlaguy]

2. Like this.

https://www.google.com/search?q=syracuse+mascot&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=2u29RaESwpkFIM:

[MontanaMama]

6. I always think of this guy...

[Funtatlaguy]

8. Creepy.

[Dale Neiburg]

3. Alert to all WH staff:

You are now expected to paint yourselves orange so you match Individual-1 under modern lights.

[dalton99a]

4. Remove the paint, dumbass

[Poiuyt]

14. He could look normal if he wanted to

The scowl is still not a good look though.

[LeftInTX]

29. No one would vote for him...LOL

The Dems need to run that picture in their campaigns..

[smirkymonkey]

5. No, you always look orange under any light because you ARE orange.

You are one of the most vain people on the planet. You are also under the delusion that you are youthful, attractive and healthy looking whereas just the opposite is true. You are an obese, hideous, sickly looking old bag of orange flab who can't go more than 10 yards without the assistance of a golf cart.

Just move to Russia. We are done with you here.

[blogslut]

7. Incandescent bulbs give off warm light, Donald. They also give off more heat which makes you sweat.

A friend of mine used to tell me: "If you want to look good in the club, always dance under the blue lights."

[mokawanis]

9. He forgot to say he always looks stupid, too n/t

[3catwoman3]

10. He is not just vain, he is...

...terminally, pathologically vain.

And can he really pronounce incandescent? It has 4 syllables.

[spanone]

11. "I'm not a vain person"

[louis-t]

12. Yeah, it's the light bulbs.

[Celerity]

16. No bulb can fix this

[Tanuki]

13. White House "glam room"

Remember how a hair and makeup "glam room" was immediately installed in the Trump White House, ostensibly for Melanie Be Best, even though she wasn't planning to leave New York until the end of Barron's school year several months later? I wonder how much of his "executive time" he spends in the "glam room" getting coiffed, spray tanned, fluffed, etc. while he rage tweets in response to Fox News?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vogue.com/article/melania-trump-white-house-glam-room/amp

"Michelle Obama had her vegetable garden, Eleanor Roosevelt could be found in the conscientious kitchen she established for Depression-sensitive meals, and Melania Trump will reportedly have a glam room where she will spend at least an hour and 15 minutes of what her makeup artist, Nicole Bryl, calls “uninterrupted focus,” every day to bring her look together. We can only imagine what the room will require: Though gold seems to fit the bill, Bryl recently said in an interview that Mrs. Trump has asked for “the most perfect lighting scenario.”....(more)

[Flaleftist]

15. And he sounds stupid because of energy-efficient microphones, right?

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[Grammy23]

18. Several years ago when light bulb standards began changing,

We switched out the regular incandescent bulbs in our family room (and other light fixtures in the house) for the more energy efficient ones. My husband noted that we’d see a reduction in temperature in that room. I was skeptical but within a day, I realized he was right. The room was noticeably cooler. I don’t think your average consumer will go back to the days of super heated incandescent bulbs that raise temperatures by several degrees.

Besides....haven’t manufacturers switched over to LEDs and other energy saving bulbs and consumers have been trained to buy them? Why would they want to switch back?

[unitedwethrive]

19. Strange how no one else looks orange under the same light....

Oh, and also sunlight.

[Blue Owl]

20. Donny Dim-Bulb

n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. Well lighten up on the spray on tan then

[lunatica]

22. He should ban natural sunlight then

Because it too makes him look orange.

[Downtown Hound]

23. Yup. Hopefully, you'll one day have a matching jumpsuit

to go with that skin of yours.

[struggle4progress]

24. "No! I don't look orange because my mother mated with an orangutan!

It's those energy-efficient light bulbs!"

[jmowreader]

25. No, it's actually the other way around

Incandescent bulbs put out light that's about 2900K. A person with an average skin tone would look slightly warm under that bulb,

You can buy LEDs with that color temp, or you can choose ones that are closer to daylight, which is 5200K. A daylight bulb makes you look more neutral in color.

If you apply "Home Depot Orange" clown makeup with a stucco trowel, you look orange,

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. He looks orange because he's as orange as a freaking pumpkin.

And this is because he uses some sort of orange spackle on his face, which he obviously thinks makes him look like a tanned, fit chick magnet. He would actually look a little less orange if he used LEDs because they give off cooler light. Strangely, he looks orange in natural light too, even though the people surrounding him don't.

[Dirty Socialist]

27. We Have Discussed This Before

A pic of Trump at Mar A Lago was shown here a few months ago. He looked quite different in it. Many of us remarked he has roseacea. He might be using some sort of spray tan or something in public apprarences

[LeftInTX]

30. He does use spray tan

Spray tan seems a strange way to deal with roseacea.

I think he just doesn't like looking pale and old.

[Baked Potato]

28. Someone please tell him Mushrooms grow bigger with LEDs

Lols