2/13 He once again "goes golfing" at his club. And, reporters are confined to the tennis court area. Not allowed to speak to Trump, and not allowed to seem him golfing, which they normally can.
2/13 He once again "goes golfing" at his club. And, reporters are confined to the tennis court area. Not allowed to speak to Trump, and not allowed to seem him golfing, which they normally can.
3/13 His team posts this picture with close friend and radio host John Fredericks. After days of outdated pictures, we finally get something that seems current - but something is off.
4/13 Other than the weird staging, we notice that Trump's eyes are barely open, especially his right eye. This would be consistent with someone recovering from a minor stroke or larger TIA who is recovering physically but not fully well yet.
5/13 But, it's also an odd smile for Trump. Large, overly toothy, and uniform. The rare times he smiles with teeth, its smaller and larger on one side. It's not this clenched teeth full smile. And his face doesn't push back that much when he does it.
6/13 So then I thought, what about tools like FaceApp that use AI models to adjust a person appearance? Since this isn't a press photo, we don't know its not faced edits.
7/13 Here is a sample of a Trump smile image run through FaceApp's smile feature on high settings. What do you notice?
8/13 When we make the change, the app squishes the face to expand the smile. -Crows feet intensify -Lips furl in -Smile lines pull back -Eyes become more closed -Smile feels more intense/forced/unnatural
9/13 Unlike an AI that fully generates images, a face editor like FaceApp is hard to programmatically detect, there are no hidden watermarks or super obvious tells. The best method is changing the contrast in photoshop to look for odd noise.
10/13 And when we boost contrast you'll notice some. Hard to see with Twitter's compression but the outline around Trump's face has pixelated noise, and so do his teeth.
Suggesting, although *not proving* touch-up. It could be lighting inconsistencies but along with the weird smile and behavior it does raise questions.
Look at the expressions of the people on the stairs😬
I believe it is secret service and they rarely show emotion.
The woman on the right is definitely expressing disgust. I don’t believe she is comfortable with the manipulation going on in this picture.
He wears a shirt that says president on it? 😂
Oh.. I'm praying all right...
It would be hillarious if true after all the shit he hung on poor Joe Biden.
He’s dying
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