r/characterarcs • u/Appropriate_Bad_3252 • 2d ago

Trump on a visibly bad arc

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u/Meme_Pope 2d ago

He’s doing the same exact face from the mugshot

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u/PM_ME_GOOD_SUBS 2d ago

I thought it may even be the edited mugshot.

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u/KazzieMono 2d ago

Which is intentionally replicating hitler’s expression on the cover of Mein Kampf.

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u/A_Punk_Girl_Learning 2d ago

Oh, I didn't know that.

Also, I now have a search for Mein Kampf in my history. Which is... unfortunate.

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u/Much-Hour4568 1d ago

Bit of a stretch, no? I mean it's similar but it's not exactly the most unique expression.

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u/KazzieMono 1d ago

Honey, the guy is on record saying he keeps a copy of that book in his nightstand. He literally admires dictators. There’s so much evidence he looks up to dictators like hitler, Putin, Kim jong un, etc.

What about it is a stretch?

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u/pentagon 1d ago

the guy is on record saying he keeps a copy of that book in his nightstand

source?

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u/KazzieMono 1d ago

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/donald-trumps-history-adolf-hitler-nazi-writings-analysis/story?id=105810745

So while it’s up for debate on whether it’s actually Mein Kampf or not, it is very, plainly, terribly obvious that the dude looks up to Hitler in a positive light.

I’ll concede and take the L if we agree that it literally doesn’t matter whether or not I was wrong.

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u/HighRetard7 1d ago

I'd also like a source for this.

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u/Much-Hour4568 1d ago

I mean two politicians going for similar appeals may independently come to act similar

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u/KazzieMono 1d ago

Here’s a record of Trump quoting Nazi rhetoric (vermin and poisoning the blood of our country)

Here is a record of John Kelly (trump’s longest serving chief of staff) admitting Trump said “Hitler had some good ideas”, and later said he wanted “German generals” in the us government.

Even if he didn’t look up to Hitler, can we please fucking acknowledge that he is literally going off of the nazi’s playbook? Please? And stop arguing and bitching with each other over stupid ass semantics like the fucking redditors we are? It’s fucking stupid. We’re on the same side and we have infinitely better things to be doing.

This shit is dangerous and needs to be stamped out asap.

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u/SOYBEANSTANLEY156 1d ago

I don’t think he knows how to smile

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u/Ass_Incomprehensible 2d ago

Yeah, that’s a presidential picture. Standard fare.

Yep, also a presidential picture, also standard fare.

Holy shit dude, are you trying to look as devious as possible?

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u/WVildandWVonderful 2d ago

Yes. He’s trying to recreate his mugshot.

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u/Impossible-Report797 2d ago

The fact that USA could put as president the kind of guy that replicate his mugshot it’s just…

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u/Breet11 1d ago

He looks so derpy in the mugshot and so like, I don't wanna say cool but like he looks like a villain in the second

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u/AlaSparkle 1d ago

Is he literally trying to recreate it or is this just his thing now?

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u/WVildandWVonderful 1d ago

Ehhh PEOPLE magazine thinks so.

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u/GreedyFatBastard 2d ago

Did he have a stroke or something?

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u/exOldTrafford 2d ago

Yes actually, he had a series of mini-strokes a few years ago

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u/El_Morro 2d ago

We were so close to salvation. God mocks us with his existence.

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u/EmeraldPencil46 2d ago

AN INCH lol

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u/Panzer_Man 1d ago

Worst shot ever

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u/Baby_Rhino 2d ago

Right when we think god is about to step in, he pulls his punch and instead of killing him, he just gives him enough brain damage to make him even more stupid and reckless.

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u/DragoKnight589 1d ago

Whereas I see it as either warning shots or narrative foreshadowing

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u/XboxLiveGiant 2d ago

NO! See you demoRATS cant see that this is what real men look like! He isnt smiling like Joe MORAN Biden! Trump knows when the enemies of our country look at portrits they are going to see him and be all like "this guys is the leader and he DOESNT smile!? We better not mess with him or his country!"

Its to keep us safe! Also for the ones who like to do a little trolling! Thats the face he made when he was arrested!!!! Now other countries will know we got a tough guy! Because he didnt smile AND used the same face as when he got arrested!

You know who else got arrested? Tony Soprano!!! Thats right Americas favorite criminal, is JUST like trump! Trump is like Tony Soprano! Big, cool, in charge, rich, in charge and wealthy to boot not to mention everyone likes him! Just like Trump!

Smiling shows ones teeth, which is a sign of weakness - Elon Musk assistant to the president

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u/your_not_stubborn 2d ago

He wanted his official portrait to look as close to his stupid mugshot as possible.

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u/Nethri 2d ago

That’s one of the theories, yeah. Idk if it ever got confirmed?

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u/Stevioly 2d ago

It’s dementia.

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u/AetherDrew43 2d ago

He looks like a supervillain.

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u/OverlyMintyMints 2d ago

He must have specifically requested that because the photographers would NOT do that accidentally

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u/AetherDrew43 2d ago

Absolutely. The first one portrays an air of friendliness even if it's just a front.

The second one makes him look bitter and cynical. And the lighting was definitely intentional.

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u/Appropriate_Bad_3252 2d ago edited 2d ago

If you read it like they are panels, it kinda looks like he was laughing at a joke, then Biden laughed at the same joke, and then he got pissed off. Like he didn't want to share that moment with him.

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u/jadepartida 2d ago

I like the way you think

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u/RoughlyCapable 2d ago

That's fucking hilarious

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u/Resident_Expert27 1d ago

Obama was very proud of the joke that he told.

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u/thesmallestlittleguy 2d ago

I think the bizarre lighting is part of why

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u/AsOmnipotentAsItGets 2d ago

You just HAD TO SAY BIZARRE!!! He’s Funny Valentine. Funny Valentine is Trump

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u/Turbulent-Pace-1506 23h ago

There's this thing I've noticed about the far-right: they like to look evil. I don't just mean that they vice-signal (that would just be virtue-signalling in their weird value system where bad is good and good is bad), I mean they actually try to look like things even they agree are evil, like Trump making himself look like a supervillain and imitating his own mugshot. And even before that, there was Dark MAGA. And this isn't exclusive to the USA: I've realised that in 2021 when I saw campaign posters of Éric Zemmour (a French far-righter who popularised Great Replacement theory) with his face half-darkened like Don Corleone from The Godfather.

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u/SteptimusHeap 2d ago

God his second presidential portrait is so funny. Who decided to make it look like that?

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u/AetherDrew43 2d ago

Himself, most likely.

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u/GoreyGopnik 1d ago

I can say that there were almost certainly several people that tried to dissuade this from happening at various points, to get him to just have a normal portrait.

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u/El_Morro 2d ago

Historians in the future are going to be like, "How did they let this happen? He even looks hateful in his official photo."

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u/Rallon_is_dead 2d ago

He's trying really hard to look like a badass

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u/HeadOfSpectre 2d ago

No. My wife works with Toddlers. This is just the face they make when they're pooping.

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u/__throwaway1616765 2d ago edited 2d ago

Bros recreating the Wolfenstein difficulty faces

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u/Agitated-Cup-2657 2d ago

He looked so jolly before and now he looks like the creature in my closet

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u/WhickenBicken 2d ago

Him being an escaped closet creature explains a lot.

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u/RunInRunOn 2d ago

"I've crashed this economy before!"

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u/Lopendebank3 2d ago

As the 47th he entered his real The World can be my Ex-Wife pase.

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u/Present_Bison 2d ago

Normal hoi4 mod leader portrait vs the same leader portrait in the schizo route

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u/cheese_bruh 2d ago

tno reference

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u/Present_Bison 2d ago

TNO and all the mods inspired by it

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u/Cardboardoge 2d ago

He does look like a damn sith lord

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u/polish_filipino 2d ago

"Somehow, Trump had returned"

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u/BLANKTWGOK 2d ago

Bro gone to waterloo university

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u/idiosmth 2d ago

He looks like he went to waterloo for engineering

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u/Max-Max-Maxxx 2d ago

Holy shit it’s the Mr. Incredible meme

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u/Resident-Ad4714 2d ago

Waterloo Engineering got another victim 😭😭

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u/JaJaFuego 2d ago

Buddy got the University of Waterloo treatment

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u/NumerousWolverine273 1d ago

In the first one he looks like an out of touch jovial businessman, in the second one he looks like a fucking supervillain 😂

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u/Spirited-Natural6338 1d ago

average waterloo university engineering student:

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u/EmbarrassedPart9095 2d ago edited 2d ago

Geeked vs locked in

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u/AlbiTuri05 2d ago

He went from smiley president to The Rock face convict

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u/Orbitcamerakick21 2d ago

Solid Trump and Liquid Trump

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u/vikingbeard23 2d ago

Palpatine before the clone wars VS palpatine after the clone wars

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u/luciengrenouille 2d ago

Wait, that's his official picture? I thought it his his jail one... What a po-faced mackerel!

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u/CharlemagneAdelaar 1d ago

he’s like “hol up this dump ain’t gonna take itself”

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u/CharlemagneAdelaar 1d ago

Geeked vs locked in

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u/N1ch0l2s 1d ago

Maeby Funke in Season 4

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u/krymoree 1d ago

Squid game season 1 Vs 2

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u/Kserks96 1d ago

He is no longer jonkling

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u/Berp-aderp 1d ago

Waterloo University

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u/RageRags 1d ago

In two years Trump will be just as old as Biden was when he entered his presidency. Prepare the amnesia old guy memes

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u/Fit-Persimmon-4323 1d ago

Uhm no, I do not think felons should be allowed to vote or work jobs that make a living wage but they should be able to be President. 😊

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u/TOPSIturvy 1d ago

Turns out last time he was in his Paragon run.

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u/intersteller_raven 10h ago

that one squid game image

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u/ForeHand101 2d ago

To play Devil's advocate, he was literally shot and had a second person also attempt later lol. That'd probably set a sour term for my 2nd term if it was me lol

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u/Hand_Man84 2d ago

is trump the 47 president or 45 president

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u/TheJiggernaut 2d ago

He's both.

Just like how Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and the 24th president.