Donald Trump, the thinnest-skinned man in America,
is whining about Fox News allegedly intentionally using unappealing and
unattractive photos of him in their broadcasts.
>> [LAUGH] >> So on Truth Social early this morning
he wrote the following, three people in New Hampshire asked me why
Fox News uses such horrible pictures of me when doing or promoting a story,
the coloring, distortions, everything are just so bad.
Because he's a model in real life, and so they use the unflattering
photos of him to lie to us all about the way he actually looks.
>> Well and even then you have to work to make those make him look bad,
because the raw material is almost unassailable.
>> You know what, we might be guilty too,
I haven't seen a single attractive photo of Donald Trump.
Look at that, I mean look, but honestly that is, we did do him dirty there,
let's keep it real.
>> Yeah. >> We did do him dirty.
>> That was Getty did him dirty right there.
[LAUGH] Damn, Getty.
>> Let me give you the rest.
He says they must sit and look at 100 different shots and
then take the 10 absolute worst,
my staff has even complained about it for months but to no avail.
>> Can you freaking imagine,
can you imagine being the former President of the United States hitting up your
staff to hit up Fox News to complain about the images they're using of you?
Imagine Obama doing this.
>> I just, I can't.
>> No, but I love this, is it not obvious why I love this?
I don't mean just because the funds, whatever.
It's because if we are to believe that what he is saying is true,
not about whether they're doing it, but that three people came up to him in
New Hampshire and his staff is complaining for months.
The world that apparently exists is every day Donald Trump has people coming up to
him saying you look like hell in that picture, man.
>> [LAUGH] >> They are ruining you,
look at this thing, you look terrible.
I've never hoped that one of Trump's bleats is true as much as I do right now.
>> It's 1000% a lie, not a single person has approached him to say hey bro,
I think Fox News is intentionally using unflattering images of you.
>> If I ever meet him, I will point it out.
>> You will? You know what, good,
you're an American hero.
>> Yeah, he likes it.
>> Now he also says, this is the craziest part of his post,
we're really burying the lede here.
He says Fox is just bad news, but I'm leading in the polls by record numbers,
so perhaps their bull is just not working, they are down 37% for a reason.
Is he alleging that people have soured on Fox News because Fox is not
using flattering images of him, could it be?
>> He's said crazier things today.
>> That's true, but could it be that the departure of Tucker Carlson played a role?
>> I love the idea that the solution to their Tucker problems is to
just photoshop really hot thirst traps of Trump.
Just wall to wall him showing sweat beaded abs,
and people are like, I don't even miss Tucker, man, that's hot.
>> You know those stories that we've done in the past featuring Trump NFTs and
how he's just ripped into every single one of those?
Do you think Trump genuinely sees himself, like you know how there's body dysmorphia?
>> Yeah.
>> Do you think he might have the reverse of that, where he looks in the mirror and
he sees the six pack and the- >> Body anamorphia.
>> Maybe. >> Yeah, he sees himself as a hot cat.
>> I wish I had that, why can't we have that?
>> Some people have that.
>> Usually men.
[LAUGH] >> Probably, yeah,
well the standards are lower, it's easier.
Does he actually see himself as very conventionally attractive, I don't know.
He's got to at least a little bit, and the reason is he obviously is a very,
very vain person, I think that we all understand that.
He is very interested in women,
He desperately wants women to be attracted to him.
He desperately wants to be seen as a virile, vigorous, alpha man, and yet
for decades he has done seemingly nothing to make that happen.
He has the fake hair or whatever, and he tans his face, but
aside from that he has never asked anyone for style advice.
He's never asked anyone hey, are suits supposed to be tailored, like, never.
And don't talk about my suit, I don't have much money and
I've gained a lot of weight.
But anyway, he could hire Marvel trainers- >> No, no, you guys-
>> To train him.
He doesn't do any of the stuff you would do.
>> I know you guys, some of you frown on elective cosmetic surgeries,
I totally understand that.
I disagree with you, and
I think that wealthy people have an obligation to us all to always look good.
>> [LAUGH] >> They have the resources for it, but
they do.
And by the way, you don't even have to go so far as to get elective surgery.
They have the money, the resources, for trainers, for personal chefs.
They could go get a massage and a facial multiple times a week and
it wouldn't break the bank, okay?
>> Amazing.
>> I mean I would try all sorts of cutting edge beauty
treatments at the spa, why not, why not?
It's a $500 facial, why not?
I'm allegedly a billionaire, right?
>> It is weird.
>> It's weird. >> And by the way,
you might think well why does he have to do that?
Well no, I don't think that they're all obligated to be hot or whatever.
>> No, they're obligated, yeah.
>> But he is the person who projects himself in that way.
Joe Biden doesn't give us any reason to believe that he thinks that he's hot or
whatever.
Bernie Sanders clearly doesn't care if people think he's attractive.
But Trump has always desperately wanted that approval, and so it's so
weird to have the massive gap between his obvious need for this attention and
his complete lack of interest in actually pursuing it.
>> So look, he didn't clarify which specific images or photos he was talking
about, but we went through some recent Fox clips that used B-roll of Donald Trump.
Great work, Kate.
And overall, they didn't use particularly terrible pictures of him,
because most pictures of him are particularly terrible, so let's watch.
>> Former President Trump firing back after he was indicted over his handling of
classified documents.
>> We start this hour without Patrick Henry, but with Donald Trump.
Audio emerging of President Trump allegedly discussing highly confidential
documents detailing a blueprint for a possible attack on Iran.
>> The tape is now being used as evidence in the special counsel's indictment
over Trump's handling of classified information.
>> It's also important to note that these indictments
always read to defense counsel as horrific documents.
Every case I've ever had, when I've read the indictment my heart has just sunk.
>> John, I'm beginning to think that it's not about the images that they decided
to use, I have a feeling that it's more about the content of those broadcasts.
Could it be that former President Donald Trump doesn't take kindly to
any news coverage about the criminal indictments that he's dealing with?
Could it be?
I could be wrong.
>> It's possible that they shot him from his unflattering side,
which is outside where there's light.
No, I actually think based on those,
the last photo I thought if I were him I wouldn't like that.
But other than that, those were above average images of Donald Trump,
and they shared several things in common.
They're all good photos I think, fairly objectively, good saturation,
good lighting, and all that.
But they're also all quite zoomed out.
>> Yeah.
>> The issue with Trump, and look, this is true of a lot of people,
it's just a little bit of arm's reach, the closer you get it's rougher.
And these cameras are very powerful- >> Not me.
>> So getting really close to Trump.
It only gets better as you get closer.
No, with Trump, it's the closeups that are rough.
I think it's just unfair to say that Fox News is trying to make him look bad,
I'm not being sarcastic anymore, they're not doing that.
People do that, they're not doing that.
>> But look, we are going to give him a little,
at least I am gonna give him a little bit of credit.
Or at least lend a little bit of merit to his argument here if he's specifically
talking about Fox and Friends, because they used a sequence of
photos of Trump that- >> What?
>> So let's take a look at that, and then you tell me if you change your mind.
>> If you look at polling for Joe Biden he is vastly underwater, and
then when you look at Independents he's polling at 26% approval among those folks.
The type of people who decide elections, or suburban women, they're angry about
the education system right now in terms of what they're teaching.
We talked about the test scores cuz we're focusing on letters and
LGBTQI+2S and race.
>> No, that was pretty bad.
There wasn't a single- >> Those are worse.
>> Every photo is like, mouth is open.
>> Those are worse, yeah.
It's not necessarily that they're specifically trying to make them look bad.
But why are you basically taking a still frame from a video that's in motion?
You don't need to do that,
you have access to the exact same bureau as the rest of Fox News.
>> Look at that picture.
>> Yeah, that's not a great photo, that's a weird expression,
I think he could take a little bit of issue.
However, he is making a strong claim against Fox implying that they're
effectively sort of defaming him in terms of his appearance.
>> No, come on. >> And I want to defend Fox News, and
I'm gonna do that tomorrow on The Damage Report.
And the way that I'm gonna defend them is I am going to show
Donald Trump the photos they could use if they wanted to destroy him.
And they're not using those, so I think this will be a strong defense.
Tune in to The Damage Report, Sharon Reed will be joining us.
>> All right, I love it.