A Taxonomy of Donald Trump's Facial Expressions
The Atlantic A Taxonomy of Donald Trump’s Facial Expressions The outgoing president’s journey from reality television to the Oval Office is evident in every smile and every scowl. Mandel Ngan/Brendan Smialowski/Getty Of the many head-benders of the Trump era, the dialectic between absurdity and extreme gravity has been one of the hardest to manage. We have been obliged to take an unserious person very seriously indeed. It has hurt our brains. It has reminded us, again and again, that the 45th president of the United States is simultaneously a reality-television star and an aspiring despot...