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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump told Fox News in June that it's "tough" to follow his instincts and withdraw all troops from Afghanistan when a "great-looking, central casting" military general urges him not to.
When Trump visited replacement border fencing in California in April, he waved local sheriffs up to the assembled cameras.
"That's central casting," he told reporters. "You can't cast -- you don't have anybody in Hollywood that looks like these guys."
Last week, Trump told Army Pfc. Glendon Oakley, who carried children away from danger during the mass shooting in El Paso, that he was a "hero." Then the commander in chief added something else.
"So you'll be a movie star, the way you look," Trump said.
Oakley, who has sought to deflect attention away from himself and toward the massacre victims, nodded without smiling.
Trump, a former beauty pageant owner, reality television star and product pitchman, has always been concerned with appearances.
But it's not your imagination: his public musings about how people look have become much more frequent since the first year of his presidency.
Trump referred to people as "good-looking" or "great-looking" four times in his first year, according to data from Bill Frischling of Factba.se, a website that comprehensively tracks the President's public words. In the year-and-a-half since then, he has done it 31 times.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/13/politics/central-casting-trump-is-talking-more-than-ever-about-mens-looks/index.html
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)....obsessed and noticing anyone that looked good and then tried to make it seem like you are too.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)elleng
(131,104 posts)Recall Melania's 'kidney issues?'
pnwmom
(108,994 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)Croney
(4,670 posts)It must be killing him to know he's getting old. Many older men are attractive, but his ugliness comes from within, and there's nothing he can do about it.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)men who are more accomplished than he is. I wonder if he realizes how absolutely hideous, old and fat he is.
It would not be such a big deal if he was a kind, decent person, but he is rotten from his core. His soul is diseased and it shows on his visage. His ugliness comes from the rot deep inside his being. I know other men his age who are kind and compassionate and they are handsome because their goodness radiates from within them. He is just ugly to the bone.
Girard442
(6,084 posts)In his befuddled mind people are good at what they do because they look like the TV characters of his boyhood.
Talitha
(6,613 posts)Not gonna happen though, you sweaty freak!
Croney
(4,670 posts)We don't see each other often, but when we do, her first words to me are, "Hello, Skinny!" Then she waits expectantly. I've never let myself reply with the truth, which would be, "Hello, you fat slob!" I just say hello. She calls herself a major feminist. I'd love to ask her, "If you met President Obama, would your first words be, "Hello, Skinny?"
Fyrefox
(300 posts)To Trump, appearance is everything. He wears his ties freakishly long in the mistaken belief that such somehow enhances him, and tans his pasty white skin to an orangish hue. Pretend to be vigorously healthy, even if you're obviously out-of-shape. Then if you lie often enough, those lies will become reality, at least to your followers...