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captain queeg

(10,094 posts)
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 12:34 AM Apr 2020

I can't stand to look at that ugly face, where he tries to pose a steely countenance

I quit watching him over a week ago but can’t unsee brief screen shots or clips on the late night comedians. He puts on that phony face that he calculates makes him look serious and in charge and it’s all just more of the phony apprentice facade. I’d love to just smash his face down onto the podium over and over. Sorry, nothing intelligent to say, just venting.

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I can't stand to look at that ugly face, where he tries to pose a steely countenance (Original Post) captain queeg Apr 2020 OP
Ahhh....what a beautiful mental image...that straw "hair" flying...make up puffing off... Moostache Apr 2020 #1
I remember sleep. Maru Kitteh Apr 2020 #5
Sleep was nice. dchill Apr 2020 #13
We all slept bdamomma Apr 2020 #66
dart board his image dweller Apr 2020 #2
Agree totally KT2000 Apr 2020 #3
That's it! LIZARD EYES! maddiemom Apr 2020 #44
The eyes are the windows to the soul... Lord Ludd Apr 2020 #62
He even has to read his condolences pink Apr 2020 #83
Geez bdamomma Apr 2020 #67
Yeah that's the term. I hadn't heard that about his mother but not surprised. captain queeg Apr 2020 #73
He DOES sniff a lot n/t pink Apr 2020 #84
Small eyes vapor2 Apr 2020 #87
DT's mouth makes him look like Assface. Cha Apr 2020 #76
That too! KT2000 Apr 2020 #77
his Mussolini look Skittles Apr 2020 #4
THAT'S THE ONE Maru Kitteh Apr 2020 #46
... Celerity Apr 2020 #6
yikes Demovictory9 Apr 2020 #11
That should have been for 10 a.m. viewing. Dem2theMax Apr 2020 #14
its 8 40 am here, lolol, sorry the 'mares Celerity Apr 2020 #16
Lol. Dem2theMax Apr 2020 #19
+1 Celerity Apr 2020 #20
I was actually saying that to the TV while I was watching it! Dem2theMax Apr 2020 #21
Both my husband & I instantly pegged his strut & jaw-jut as Benito Mussolini... Hekate Apr 2020 #7
Rump might want to avoid Esso petrol stations Celerity Apr 2020 #12
God, that Mussolini jaw... so repulsive. And his upper lip, the way it anuses.... renate Apr 2020 #18
his mouth is horrific Celerity Apr 2020 #23
Gah! That ugly face! smirkymonkey Apr 2020 #27
Another one that can't be unseen. Just the most repulsive person on the planet. captain queeg Apr 2020 #34
OhGawdOhGawdOhGawd!!!! EndlessWire Apr 2020 #50
OhGawdOhGawdOhGawd!!!! EndlessWire Apr 2020 #51
Right up to the... rasputin1952 Apr 2020 #59
Huffing his own farts Blue Owl Apr 2020 #8
Would love to have that happen ..... CatMor Apr 2020 #9
I started turning him off during the campaign, changed the channel when he came on Rhiannon12866 Apr 2020 #10
He is not allowed in my home. Dem2theMax Apr 2020 #15
You and me both. smirkymonkey Apr 2020 #17
Same here. Ohiogal Apr 2020 #53
I listen to bdamomma Apr 2020 #69
Mussolini Dworkin Apr 2020 #22
Have you ever seen any of the Mussolini with folded arms photos? Judi Lynn Apr 2020 #24
Cheered me up for the whole day! Dworkin Apr 2020 #29
Perfect malaise Apr 2020 #36
Could he actually have read Brecht? ChazInAz Apr 2020 #42
It would be more than fitting if he wound up Solomon Apr 2020 #47
Check this out: Aristus Apr 2020 #60
Yep. That's the orange pestilence. captain queeg Apr 2020 #72
Folding arms bdamomma Apr 2020 #71
I only hope he ends up like him. smirkymonkey Apr 2020 #28
My sentiments exactly. Solomon Apr 2020 #48
I completely agree. It's NOT a coincidence. He practiced this look. n/t pnwmom Apr 2020 #68
You speak for so many of us! That imagery absolutely lives on in my mind! Thanks, so much. Judi Lynn Apr 2020 #25
Trump's just copying Melania's Zoolander Blue Steel pose. sop Apr 2020 #26
punchable demtenjeep Apr 2020 #30
You wouldn't want your hand back if it touched his face.n/t Judi Lynn Apr 2020 #31
yea bdamomma Apr 2020 #70
You and me both! Jane Austin Apr 2020 #32
I haven't actually watched him since his election. I turn the channel whenever he comes on. Squinch Apr 2020 #33
That's his Churchill imitation. tanyev Apr 2020 #35
OMG he couldn't chew Churchill's toenails, he's such an ignorant buffoon captain queeg Apr 2020 #39
Yeah, I quit watching too, the ugly and the lies burned too badly. lark Apr 2020 #37
I avert my eyes when his picture or video is shown Beringia Apr 2020 #38
A fake tough guy. pwb Apr 2020 #40
Lardolini trying to look like Mussolini -- it's not working. nt eppur_se_muova Apr 2020 #41
I thought he was just trying to look threatening to his employees. lagomorph777 Apr 2020 #43
Vent away! Sucha NastyWoman Apr 2020 #45
Need help? world wide wally Apr 2020 #49
He thinks it makes him look like Winston Churchill. He did that scowl for his official photo & tblue37 Apr 2020 #52
He will never look remotely like Churchill. He does not radiate the intelligence or gravitas and smirkymonkey Apr 2020 #86
Today he had that pinkish tie on that matches his eye bags and lips. I wonder what shade of brewens Apr 2020 #54
and his friggen seal flipper hands and that high whiney voice when hes trying to convince.. samnsara Apr 2020 #55
His facade is the very definition of backpfeifengesicht "face badly in need of a fist" niyad Apr 2020 #56
Is that a real term? German? I like it! captain queeg Apr 2020 #57
It is a real term. I learned it here several years ago. Stephen Colbert highlighted it last week. niyad Apr 2020 #58
He's repulsive. TV/photo closeups of that greasy orange-peel exoskeleton are nauseating. VOX Apr 2020 #61
Let's go to prison: 'Show me your tough face." keithbvadu2 Apr 2020 #63
You talking about the "baby shitting his diaper" look? GoCubsGo Apr 2020 #64
I'm bdamomma Apr 2020 #65
Actually, I think that is an intelligent thing to say. luvallpeeps Apr 2020 #74
I know the feeling.. he's killing people out Cha Apr 2020 #75
Can't face the voice Dworkin Apr 2020 #78
I wish I could rec this a 100 times get the red out Apr 2020 #79
Yep. Every morning... El Mimbreno Apr 2020 #80
His insides leak out...he is an evil despicable sociopathic piece of shite. Demsrule86 Apr 2020 #81
He's trying for Blue Steel but coming out Orange Putty. nt Xipe Totec Apr 2020 #82
If there is a devil pink Apr 2020 #85

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
1. Ahhh....what a beautiful mental image...that straw "hair" flying...make up puffing off...
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 12:41 AM
Apr 2020

Thank you, I may actually sleep for a bit tonight with the equivalent of visions of sugar plums dancing in my head!!

KT2000

(20,568 posts)
3. Agree totally
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 12:54 AM
Apr 2020

his face is everywhere even if we quit watching his daily re-election campaign. Lizard eyes and a mouth that looks like he is still usung a baby bottle. Just awful to look at and can't wait until he is over and out.

maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
44. That's it! LIZARD EYES!
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 11:44 AM
Apr 2020

I've been trying to pin down his look lately. His eyes are always slit mostly shut. with no normal range of expression. You have to catch him in close-up stills because he rarely looks up while reading in an expressionless drone. Catch any of the briefings by states' governors. The contrast is stark.

pink

(497 posts)
83. He even has to read his condolences
Sat Apr 11, 2020, 10:35 PM
Apr 2020

Sadly, because he has no feelings, empathy or intelligence, he cant speak off the cuff to even pretend to express how sad the whole situation is.

bdamomma

(63,799 posts)
67. Geez
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 10:26 PM
Apr 2020

you said lizard eyes, but I read somewhere here awhile back that could be from his mother's alcohol problem. I can't remember the medical term fetal alcohol syndrome ?, I'm sure someone will correct me.

captain queeg

(10,094 posts)
73. Yeah that's the term. I hadn't heard that about his mother but not surprised.
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 11:01 PM
Apr 2020

You hear the stories about his brother drinking himself to death. I was thinking about that today; alcoholics do a lot of damage but anything a drunk would do pales beside the “teetotaler”. He claims to not drink but why would anyone believe that when everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. I’d believe he doesn’t drink (much) because he’s abusing drugs, most likely of the stimulant variety.

vapor2

(1,240 posts)
87. Small eyes
Sun Apr 12, 2020, 04:02 PM
Apr 2020

Last edited Mon Apr 13, 2020, 12:29 AM - Edit history (1)

Yes, I have heard from a dr. that smoking can cause small eyes.

KT2000

(20,568 posts)
77. That too!
Sat Apr 11, 2020, 03:20 AM
Apr 2020

Do you remember "Don't tuch the butt" Well, my cat's butt is cute compared to that Assface.

Dem2theMax

(9,637 posts)
19. Lol.
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 04:32 AM
Apr 2020

I'm still up! Just got done watching a movie about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I had to put something good into my soul. That was just what I needed.

Hekate

(90,556 posts)
7. Both my husband & I instantly pegged his strut & jaw-jut as Benito Mussolini...
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 01:01 AM
Apr 2020

Who as we all know came to a bad end.

renate

(13,776 posts)
18. God, that Mussolini jaw... so repulsive. And his upper lip, the way it anuses....
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 03:13 AM
Apr 2020

He’s completely gross. He’s so orange, with those pale little eyes, and the way his mouth purses... it’s so ew.

rasputin1952

(83,130 posts)
59. Right up to the...
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 07:39 PM
Apr 2020

crossed arms and "stolid" stance. It's comical today, it got serious when bloated bodies returned to Italy for burial.

I think I'll get a hat that says, "Make America Fascist Today!"

Rhiannon12866

(204,769 posts)
10. I started turning him off during the campaign, changed the channel when he came on
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 01:15 AM
Apr 2020

And I couldn't wait for it to be over so I'd never have to see or hear him again.

Dem2theMax

(9,637 posts)
15. He is not allowed in my home.
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 02:32 AM
Apr 2020

I even fast forward when Colbert shows clips of him, and then makes comments about whatever the orange idiot said. He's worse than Cheney. And that says everything.

bdamomma

(63,799 posts)
69. I listen to
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 10:33 PM
Apr 2020

Randi Rhodes she plays his clips, I tried to listen to him but I started to curse and yell. He's a vile POS and he's mentally insane.

I just can't listen or even look at him.

Dworkin

(164 posts)
22. Mussolini
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 04:50 AM
Apr 2020

Folks,

He has a way of cocking his head to one side that is straight from Mussolini. This guy has actually practised 'phony face' in front of a mirror. It just can't be a coincidence.

D.

Judi Lynn

(160,450 posts)
24. Have you ever seen any of the Mussolini with folded arms photos?
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 05:05 AM
Apr 2020








Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Barf.

I wondered what the #### he was doing when he started sitting around that way, I figured he was trying to cover up how large his stomach is. Now it's clear he learned Mussolini folded his arms a lot.

Not quite the same when the ####gibbon does it.



He TRIES to look like a dictator?

On edit:

I just noticed: Mussolini's and Hitler's folded arms still looked like arms. Trump's look like short, overstuffed sausages.

Dworkin

(164 posts)
29. Cheered me up for the whole day!
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 06:03 AM
Apr 2020

Judi,

Oh, that was so funny. Also, your pics reminded me of Chaplin's film 'The Great Dictator'. Trump just looks like a spoof of his idols.

D.

PS - I do wish the reality of the situation was funny, but hoping that enough people holding him to the light will eventually pay off.

ChazInAz

(2,559 posts)
42. Could he actually have read Brecht?
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 11:26 AM
Apr 2020

In "The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui", Bertold Brecht devotes considerable stage time to the wanna-be cabbage king practicing strutting, glowering, and posing with crossed arms to look more authoritarian.
But Trump, like Ui, is an illiterate buffoon, and would never read it and certainly never see it performed.

bdamomma

(63,799 posts)
71. Folding arms
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 10:48 PM
Apr 2020

could be his dictator stance, but I remember reading an article about how one of his teachers said he used to fold his arms like that, to say "what you are going to do about it", or "make me".


https://www.psychmechanics.com/body-language-crossing-arms/


Judi Lynn

(160,450 posts)
25. You speak for so many of us! That imagery absolutely lives on in my mind! Thanks, so much.
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 05:08 AM
Apr 2020

We can all dream, can't we?

Squinch

(50,911 posts)
33. I haven't actually watched him since his election. I turn the channel whenever he comes on.
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 07:21 AM
Apr 2020

I get my news about him here where I can moniter but also avoid his daily torture.

tanyev

(42,516 posts)
35. That's his Churchill imitation.
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 09:37 AM
Apr 2020
When in doubt, pout.

President Trump told staffers working on his campaign that he wanted to look 'like [Winston] Churchill' in photographs and images, believing that he would appear tougher according to a new report in The New York Times.

That is why Donnie, like Winnie, reportedly prefers to scowl, squint and maintain a general sourpuss on his face whenever he is in front of a camera.

It also explains why President Trump may have returned the bust of the prime minister to the Oval Office, with the proximity to his own desk allowing him to practice the downcast frown and furrowed brow favored by the former leader of the United Kingdom.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4339932/President-Trump-frowns-look-like-Winston-Chuirchill.html

captain queeg

(10,094 posts)
39. OMG he couldn't chew Churchill's toenails, he's such an ignorant buffoon
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 10:37 AM
Apr 2020

During the lockdown a grabbed a few books from the library. Right now reading Finest Hour, about 1200 pages about Churchill in the early war years. He could be abrasive and egotistical but he was the leader they needed for the times. Trump knows nothing about leadership, ole Winnie would be rolling in his grave to hear trump thing that way. As many have mentioned he’s much closer to Il Duce that anyone else.

By the way at the bottom of the linked article there was an advertisement for what I thought was a new sci-fi movie or something. It was an advertisement for Space Force. On one hand I can’t believe the military is buying into that farce, but knowing how they operate I’m sure some of the generals just see it as a way to line up at the trough and buy some new high tech toys. Their most important rule is to spend every dime they can get and they actually budget for over 100% expenditures to make sure they don’t end up having to give any money back at the end of the year.

lark

(23,061 posts)
37. Yeah, I quit watching too, the ugly and the lies burned too badly.
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 10:31 AM
Apr 2020

Can't stand listening to him or seeing him, every time it makes my bad stomach clench with loathing and concern about how he intends to kill us for personal profit and rw ascendancy. He is too ugly, inside and out, to watch, he literally makes my skin crawl as well as making me feel sick. I hate even seeing short clips on Rachel or Nicole's show, it's just so sad and frustrating that someone who zero intelligence and all rqv malevolence is profiteering off our deaths and seeking tons mow of death for peresonal & political profit is just more than I can take.

Beringia

(4,316 posts)
38. I avert my eyes when his picture or video is shown
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 10:35 AM
Apr 2020

I notice I do the same for a few other politicians, who I consider to be very narcissistic.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
43. I thought he was just trying to look threatening to his employees.
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 11:42 AM
Apr 2020

He certainly doesn't look "serious and in charge." Just kind of scary clown crazy.

Sucha NastyWoman

(2,741 posts)
45. Vent away!
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 12:27 PM
Apr 2020

Never, ever in the history of humankind has there been a more despicable, monstrous and evil being.

We thought GWB was bad, and he was an inept tool, but not nearly as evil.

tblue37

(65,227 posts)
52. He thinks it makes him look like Winston Churchill. He did that scowl for his official photo &
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 03:38 PM
Apr 2020

bragged to his aides that it made him look like Churchill.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
86. He will never look remotely like Churchill. He does not radiate the intelligence or gravitas and
Sat Apr 11, 2020, 11:56 PM
Apr 2020

never will no matter how much he tries to imitate him. He is a third rate Mussolini at best and hope with all my heart that he ends up like him.

brewens

(13,538 posts)
54. Today he had that pinkish tie on that matches his eye bags and lips. I wonder what shade of
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 03:42 PM
Apr 2020

lipstick that is?

samnsara

(17,605 posts)
55. and his friggen seal flipper hands and that high whiney voice when hes trying to convince..
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 03:45 PM
Apr 2020

..us of a lie..

VOX

(22,976 posts)
61. He's repulsive. TV/photo closeups of that greasy orange-peel exoskeleton are nauseating.
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 08:01 PM
Apr 2020

Not to mention that televangelist “hair” mess. And he’s as hideous on the inside as he is barf-inducing on the outside.

Sickening, the whole package. GET RID OF HIM!

GoCubsGo

(32,074 posts)
64. You talking about the "baby shitting his diaper" look?
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 10:17 PM
Apr 2020

Regardless, I can't stand the sight of him, either. But, nowhere near as much as I despise the excrement that spews from his cat anus mouth.

luvallpeeps

(935 posts)
74. Actually, I think that is an intelligent thing to say.
Sat Apr 11, 2020, 02:22 AM
Apr 2020

You're only displaying an honest reaction to a giant talking yam who's gonna get people killed on account of his greed.

I'd like to introduce a baseball bat to his knees.

Cha

(296,848 posts)
75. I know the feeling.. he's killing people out
Sat Apr 11, 2020, 02:25 AM
Apr 2020

in the open and should be put down(as in sent to prison) by somebody.

Dworkin

(164 posts)
78. Can't face the voice
Sat Apr 11, 2020, 05:28 AM
Apr 2020

Folks,

About trying to censor him from the news. For me its the voice that is impossible to cope with. I can manage a few images popping up, but I have to turn the sound off to avoid the voice.

I'm in the UK and love listening to classical music on radio 3, a station with no adverts. But, and it's a big but, they have regular news bulletins and for a while the announcer started with 'Donald Trump ....blah blah' I mean in the middle of a frigging concert they have to give me that reminder!

I had to pack in the station, couldn't even stand hearing the name.

Fortunately that has eased off now, with the news of the virus. Well, actually he is a kind of virus.

D.

El Mimbreno

(777 posts)
80. Yep. Every morning...
Sat Apr 11, 2020, 11:14 AM
Apr 2020

I get up, hit the bathroom, do my back stretches, make a cup of tea, sit down at the computer and bring up MSN, hoping for a headline that that vile creature occupying the White House has croaked. Wishful thinking.

My own fantasy is a pile driver right uppercut to that flaccid chin.

pink

(497 posts)
85. If there is a devil
Sat Apr 11, 2020, 10:58 PM
Apr 2020

Do you think that's what the devil looks like. I was watching his press conference (rally) the other day when he said that he did not intend wearing a mask. He started to compare himself to great presidents, prime ministers and royalty more or less insinuating that they wouldn't do it. I feel so sorry for the journalists who are there to question him.

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