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Donald Trump’s Courtroom Body Language and Post Courtroom Mar-a-Lago Speech Body Language. By Patti Wood

I have analyzed over 20 photos of trumps body language going in the courtroom,
in the courtroom, and leaving and during his later speech at Mar-a-logo. The link article I did for The Sun is below my notes here about his anger and sadness.
The predominant emotion he is showing his anger. It's not surprising as anger is a strong emotion and can make you feel powerful.
In some people, anger is always there just below the surface in reserve ready to appear to prevent any sense of agony and powerlessness, in what is called, a "cover emotion.”
When you imagine Trump, and you have a picture of him in your brain or maybe a movie of him in your brain what is the strongest emotion he shows?
In some of the photos trumps anger covers sadness. If someone is experiencing and showing full sadness the upper eyelids droop the inner corners of the eyebrow are raised and the Outer corners of the mouth pull down slightly. And sometimes the cheeks raise and create a furrow pushing up the skin below the eyes and narrowing the eyes, creating a "nasolabial fold." (that's wrinkles running down from the nostril at word be on the corners of the lips.)


Here is the entire article


Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago speech ‘lacked energy’ for key reason after ‘anger and unusual behavior’ in court, expert says

he found that Trump displayed patterns that indicated sadness and anger at the hearing, the latter being exceptionally rare for defendants.

"I've been covering trials as a body language expert for well over 20 years," Wood said.

"So when a defendant shows anger, going in and out of the courtroom and in the courtroom, that's interesting to me because it's not standard.

"I see it when they need to win somehow and feel powerful, but it's not typical in an everyday defendant."

Instead, Wood told The U.S. Sun that those accused of crimes oftentimes are "hunched over" and can look defeated before a judge.

One photo of Trump appeared to show him shutting his eyes, which could indicate that he was "blocking what's happening from the brain," Wood analyzed.

"The eyes actually close because what the person is experiencing is too much, too overwhelming," she said after prefacing that he could have just been photographed mid-blink.

Leaving the courtroom, Trump appeared to try and cater to his audience and gesture a closed fist with a wave, which is typical of him.

However, he really lacked animation, according to Wood, who theorized that it could be due to an absence of control.

"It's modified from his normal fist," she said of his gesture to the audience.

Instead of pointing the "fierce" knuckle as a show of strength, he instead appeared to be "gripping on trying to hold it together," Wood said.

"What he's really feeling is, 'I need to hold on,'" Wood theorized.

"That's something you're more likely to see in children."

'HUSH MONEY' PAYMENTS

The charges against Trump stem from a $130,000 hush-money payment that his former fixer, Michael D. Cohen, made to porn star Stormy Daniels in the final days of the 2016 campaign to silence claims of an affair.

Cohen confessed to the payment and was sentenced to three years in prison.

The case also includes claims of separate payments to a second woman, former Playboy model Karen McDougal.

Trump allegedly played a role in paying $150,000 to McDougal, who claims that she began a 10-month relationship with the former president in 2006, according to the Wall Street Journal.





Patti Wood, MA - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com.