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Looks like the WH is giving Trump the glamour shots treatment (Original Post) CatWoman Jul 2020 OP
Looks like ornotna Jul 2020 #1
I had there same thought. I used to leak that that when my son was an infant. Dream Girl Jul 2020 #11
Gosh Almighty but Trump is ugly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! trueblue2007 Jul 2020 #65
Do you know how odd it is to see someone in long pants on a golf course underpants Jul 2020 #2
Is he nursing??? agingdem Jul 2020 #3
Nursing pads? Dream Girl Jul 2020 #13
fake photo. n/t Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #55
I know... agingdem Jul 2020 #61
It's one thing to ridicule him. Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #62
I'm a woman and a mother...I'm not offended agingdem Jul 2020 #63
Assigning female characteristics to Trump to insult him Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #64
I guess its perspective agingdem Jul 2020 #66
It's not one or the other - it's both. Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #68
Fake picture. Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #4
look at his neck on the original picture you just posted CatWoman Jul 2020 #5
Look at the vertical ridge that ends at the button at the right side of his shirt in your pic Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #14
.... CatWoman Jul 2020 #19
No offense but Ms. Toad is correct ... regardless of where you stand on the subject (nt) mr_lebowski Jul 2020 #32
no offense taken CatWoman Jul 2020 #34
I don't believe I had to make a side-by-side shot in order for you to see the difference. Sheesh. Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #36
Nipples would be a strange place to sweat! LeftInTX Jul 2020 #51
way to Go................ CatWoman ..... YOU ROCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! trueblue2007 Jul 2020 #67
100% correct on both...sharp eye! BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #21
There is a small segment here who are happy to post fake shite if it serves their purpose. demmiblue Jul 2020 #25
And then, apparently, insist it is not fake. n/t Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #27
It is rather bizarre (especially since it is so obvious... like hit you in the face obvious.).n/t demmiblue Jul 2020 #30
i refer you to post 23 CatWoman Jul 2020 #33
i've updated the op CatWoman Jul 2020 #28
Whatever. demmiblue Jul 2020 #38
however CatWoman Jul 2020 #45
The neck ornotna Jul 2020 #7
The original one, or the altered one? n/t Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #16
Post #42. Kingofalldems Jul 2020 #43
Both ornotna Jul 2020 #56
Agreed. n/t Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #57
cause in his other pics he has a triple chin CatWoman Jul 2020 #24
fake? on twitter?? :-) nt msongs Jul 2020 #8
It looks like they thinned him out. Maraya1969 Jul 2020 #39
If anything, the obviously altered photo plumped him up from the original. Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #41
He won't be throwing out that ball because he knows he'll get booed. Arkansas Granny Jul 2020 #6
Exactly Poiuyt Jul 2020 #10
I read that there will be no fans in attendance. BKDem Jul 2020 #22
Bad photoshop. Totally Tunsie Jul 2020 #9
i refer you to post #5 CatWoman Jul 2020 #12
Just as this pic has added the lactation, it has also Totally Tunsie Jul 2020 #20
i know that CatWoman Jul 2020 #23
It's not just a larger pic. Totally Tunsie Jul 2020 #26
maybe just because I wanted to post fake shit to further my fake shit agenda? CatWoman Jul 2020 #29
I never accused you of posting "fake shit", and I have no idea Totally Tunsie Jul 2020 #35
i know you didn't and I'm not saying you did CatWoman Jul 2020 #46
Except that you are still suggesting (by the caption) that it was the WH that altered the neck. Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #40
Embarrassingly bad photoshop. demmiblue Jul 2020 #18
Here's what i wonder about this event. Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2020 #15
Favre is a Republican??? LeftInTX Jul 2020 #53
I predicted days ago that that first ball throw out would never happen. brush Jul 2020 #17
I think they're trying too hard, making too many modifications JHB Jul 2020 #31
I really don't care. Do U? LakeArenal Jul 2020 #37
I guarantee the WH changed the original picture. Kingofalldems Jul 2020 #42
see? CatWoman Jul 2020 #47
I noticed. Kingofalldems Jul 2020 #49
It's not clear the original is fake. Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #58
Your fourth paragraph (with slight deletion) Totally Tunsie Jul 2020 #59
True. n/t Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #60
There's one major difference, though - Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #50
You can polish a turd all you want, but you still have a turd. yortsed snacilbuper Jul 2020 #44
..... marmar Jul 2020 #48
He doesn't look well in either shot. He looks unhealthy. I doubt he could survive Covid. NurseJackie Jul 2020 #52
This is real: Kingofalldems Jul 2020 #54
 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
11. I had there same thought. I used to leak that that when my son was an infant.
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 04:50 PM
Jul 2020

Maybe he needs a nursing bra?

underpants

(182,823 posts)
2. Do you know how odd it is to see someone in long pants on a golf course
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 04:44 PM
Jul 2020

other than in the winter? I have a friend who does but that’s a whole other story.

Long black pants in July? With a white shirt? He looks like the waitstaff or a valet.

Ms. Toad

(34,074 posts)
62. It's one thing to ridicule him.
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 10:44 PM
Jul 2020

It's another to not recognize that the photo you are using is photoshopped (as the OP insisted it was not, as to the neck).

It is still another to promote a photoshopped image that ridicules him by portraying him as a woman (lactating). That's a whole different kettle of worms, troublesome in its own right.

agingdem

(7,850 posts)
63. I'm a woman and a mother...I'm not offended
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 11:19 PM
Jul 2020

Trump is a depraved misogynist..everything Trump hates about women is in that "pic"..aging, lactating which in itself is an oxymoron... as for me in this upside down world I've shelved "if they go low we go high"...I'm done being nice

Ms. Toad

(34,074 posts)
64. Assigning female characteristics to Trump to insult him
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 11:23 PM
Jul 2020

is misogynistic.

It has nothing to do with being nice to Trump. It has to do with implying women are bad (you can't use women as an insult, without inherently implying there is something bad about being female.

You may not be offended - but that doesn't make the use of portraying Trump as a woman as an insult any less misogynistic.

agingdem

(7,850 posts)
66. I guess its perspective
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 11:47 PM
Jul 2020

'grab them by the pussy"..abhorrent, nauseating, demeaning, offensive..the photoshopped pic...no

Ms. Toad

(34,074 posts)
68. It's not one or the other - it's both.
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 11:54 PM
Jul 2020

Both treat women as "less than" men.

Trump treated them as body parts; the photoshopped photo treats them as inferior (because making Trump lactate as an insult only works if the suggestion is that a body that lactates is negative/worse than one that does not).

Ms. Toad

(34,074 posts)
4. Fake picture.
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 04:46 PM
Jul 2020

He was given an extra vertical ridge on his neck, and nipples/leaking on his chest.

Original Picture:


CatWoman

(79,302 posts)
5. look at his neck on the original picture you just posted
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 04:47 PM
Jul 2020

i know my op pic is photo shopped around the nipples, but the neck area has not changed

Ms. Toad

(34,074 posts)
14. Look at the vertical ridge that ends at the button at the right side of his shirt in your pic
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 04:54 PM
Jul 2020

Then zoom in to the photo I posted. That ridge is not present in the photo I posted (with good reason - no one has a ridge coming down the center of the throat over their adams apple.)

The remaining ridges are also much more defined.

Ms. Toad

(34,074 posts)
36. I don't believe I had to make a side-by-side shot in order for you to see the difference. Sheesh.
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 05:19 PM
Jul 2020


The photo on the left is yours - you can see from the red marks that were on the photo to circle the fake nipples.

In your photo, there is a vertical ridge extending from the button on his right, just about the horizontal center. In the photo on the right it is completely absent. No human being has a ridge there. I know Trump is not human, but that particular physical anomaly is not one he possesses.

If you look to the left (in the photo) you will see the tendon ridge is much more visible (lighter colored on the photo-right of the tendon, shadowed on the photo left of the tendon). The tendon is present in the original, but it is far less noticeable.

Ms. Toad

(34,074 posts)
41. If anything, the obviously altered photo plumped him up from the original.
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 05:33 PM
Jul 2020

It's hard to tell because the cropping is different.

Arkansas Granny

(31,517 posts)
6. He won't be throwing out that ball because he knows he'll get booed.
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 04:48 PM
Jul 2020

It has nothing to do with his focus on his job.

BKDem

(1,733 posts)
22. I read that there will be no fans in attendance.
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 05:01 PM
Jul 2020

We will all be booing from the comfort of our homes.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
20. Just as this pic has added the lactation, it has also
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 04:58 PM
Jul 2020

enhanced the neck ridges to make them more prominent.

I also suspect it has been horizontally adjusted to make him look slightly wider than the original pic.

I stand by my original comment - bad photoshop.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
26. It's not just a larger pic.
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 05:09 PM
Jul 2020

It an adjusted pic to throw off the proportion. Chump's side of the photo has been stretched sideways to make him appear wider than normal. Note the background behind Chump is also fuzzier than that behind Favre.

If you agree the lactation is photoshopped, why can't you fathom the neck was also?

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
35. I never accused you of posting "fake shit", and I have no idea
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 05:18 PM
Jul 2020

what your "fake shit agenda" might be.

This is a badly photoshopped pic - no more, no less, no agendas.

Ms. Toad

(34,074 posts)
40. Except that you are still suggesting (by the caption) that it was the WH that altered the neck.
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 05:30 PM
Jul 2020

The obvious alteration in the neck is the added vertical ridge.

The original doesn't show a double chin (although many of those are altered too). Not every photo of people who have double (or triple) chins shows those chins It depends on the angle, the lighting, the posture.

The original picture was published in the Guardian, a reputable newspaper that leans left. https://www.allsides.com/news-source/guardian

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(15,575 posts)
15. Here's what i wonder about this event.
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 04:54 PM
Jul 2020

How did it come to be? Are they friends and just made a golf date? Did the WH reach out to Favre and set it up? Did Favre donate money in exchange for a golf date? It's just weird to me that they'd be playing together............

LeftInTX

(25,364 posts)
53. Favre is a Republican???
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 06:07 PM
Jul 2020

That would be the most likely reason.

It's actually more of a photo-op for Trump than Favre

brush

(53,784 posts)
17. I predicted days ago that that first ball throw out would never happen.
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 04:54 PM
Jul 2020

The Bronx Burough President protested strongly to the Yankees about inviting a white supremacist (his exact words) to the Bronx, a heavily POC community.

I see the sentiments got back to orange turd.

Ms. Toad

(34,074 posts)
58. It's not clear the original is fake.
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 07:13 PM
Jul 2020

But by denying there were any alterations to the neck in the posted - badly photoshopped - photo (when there obviously were) the OP made this thread into a referendum about whether we believed our lying eyes or them.

That distracted from the point they were trying to make - that the original (initially omitted) photo was altered. That distraction could easily have been avoided by swapping out the photo with the original, once it was pointed out that the bad photoshop not only added lactation/nipple shadows - but also altered the neck.

Instead the OP dug in and insisted the neck was unaltered in the bad photoshop, and posted the original photo as an afterthought rather than as the main event (which it needed to be if the intended focus was on what the WH did to the original photo).

So it shouldn't surprise anyone that the focus is on the misguided denial that the neck was altered in the bad photoshop, rather than on the point they were trying to make.

As to the original - I gave you links to a few other golf shirt shots. Everyone's neck has a very different appearance when they aren't wearing a button-down shirt. Just as everyone's belly has a very different appearance when they aren't wearing jeans two sizes too small - creating a mushroom belly effect. When Trump is golfing, the neck distortion caused by buttoning his shirt too tightly goes away - and double chins appear/disappear based on a lot of factors that do not require photoshoppping.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
59. Your fourth paragraph (with slight deletion)
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 09:17 PM
Jul 2020

can be applied just as easily to everything that spews from the tRaitor's mouth. For him, it's a tactic, rather than an error.

"So it shouldn't surprise anyone that the focus is on the misguided denial [xxxxxx] rather than on the point they were trying to make."


Ms. Toad

(34,074 posts)
50. There's one major difference, though -
Sun Jul 26, 2020, 05:57 PM
Jul 2020

These photos have him in a neck-constricting shirt - which scrunches his neck up in the front (where he pulls it to when he buttons it). I'm guessing he's too vain to buy shirts in his actual neck size.

The original photo above looks pretty similar to some other photos of him in golf attire:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/345952-photos-of-trump-golfing-posted-online
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-scotland-golf-course-loses-1-million-a-year-and-locals-hate-it-2019-3
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-claims-he-had-very-good-meeting-on-mideast-at-trump-international-golf-club

There are, of course, others that show his double chin off. But a lot of whether a double chin is obvious in a photo depends on lighting, posture, angle of the photo, and the skill (and intent) of the photographer, etc.

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