This is from the A.P., a side-by-side on a Huffington Post article speculation on the debates. I want to trust they tried to find comparable smiling photos of each candidate. You have to look through a lot of them to find one of Trump where he has anything between his nose and chin which could be called a smile. Here are the first photos of an image search just for Trump. Finding one of Trump smiling here is like searching for Waldo.
Trump
A better name for what Trump manages when he’s trying to effect a smile would combine the words grimace and smile: GRIMILE
So in all fairness I asked Google Images to show me “Trump smiling.”
Trump smiling
Let’s do the same with Hillary. Here are the image results for just searching photos of Hillary Clinton:
Hillary Clinton
Here’s a search for Hillary smiling:
Hillary Clinton smiling
I wouldn’t have posted these photo comparisons had not Trump made so many disparaging comments about how Hillary, and other women, look. Here’s what I posted yesterday in “Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall.”
Trump makes a point of commenting on everyone’s looks, from Heidi Cruz to Hillary Clinton to little Marco to his own wife and daughter, the list is long… in Trump’s perception either you’re a 10 or a zero.
Women especially get harsh treatment as his remarks of the Howard Stern Show attest. They come from a man who clearly isn’t the genetic pool’s handsome gift to womankind. Of course, when he asks “mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all” he has been having a conniption fit ever since the mirror has been saying “Hillary Clinton.”
The mirror has finally been to therapy and realizes that it’s competence and inner beauty that counts.
We’ve said a great deal about Trump and his personality and his misogyny. What I haven’t heard much about his how shallow he is in general. I haven’t heard the description hedonist applied to him. He’s clearly a person who believes that living and working in oppulent surrounding enhances his stature, and apparently it increases his already over the top egotism.
His hedonism goes hand in glove with how he views people’s worth, mostly women, by how they look.
In this campaign between a reality TV celebrity and an actual politician with one of the most impressive resumes in my lifetime it is fair to engage in a pictorial snark.
Larger photos are here.
Note: Since writing about David Pouffe “diagnosing Trump as a psychopath and disagreeing with this diagnosis ( see www.dailykos.com/… ) I consulted with a psychoanalyst friend and have been convinced that, with the facts we have been learning about his past behavior, he may not fit the actual DSM criteria “like a glove” (deliberate reference to O.J. Simpson, arguably a real psychopath), he does have characteristics that if we knew more might “earn” him this diagnosis.
He pointed me to the famous analyst and author of “Psychotherapy with the Narcissistic Patient, “Heinz Kohut:
According to Kohut's self psychology model, narcissistic psychopathology is a result of parental lack of empathy during development. Consequently, the individual does not develop full capacity to regulate self esteem. The narcissistic adult, according to Kohut's concepts, vacillates between an irrational overestimation of the self and irrational feelings of inferiority, and relies on others to regulate his self esteem and give him a sense of value. In treatment, Kohut recommends helping the patient develop these missing functions. Kohut proposes that the therapist should empathically experience the world from the patient's point of view (temporary indwelling) so that the patient feels understood. Interpretations are used when they can help the patient understand his sometimes intense feelings about any empathic failure on the part of the therapist, and understand why he (the patient) needs to restore solidity and comfort after being injured by any failed empathic (self object) ties. As insight develops, the patient begins to understand why he might experience these apparently small empathic failures so deeply. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...
