You see his glare formed by his upper eyelids pushing down slightly his eyebrows drawn together pointing downward towards his nose along with the position of the head, jutted down and forward, and his upward glare he is giving a sociopathic stare.
Though the main "tell" of this stare is typically the whites showing under the pupil his highly dilated pupils provide a usual cover for that tell. His large pupils are his baseline, He has had enlarged pupils in most of the speeches, interviews, and photos I have analyzed since he first ran for president. Typically in nonverbal analysis enlarged pupils, can indicate low lighting in the environment, a sign of brain injury, a sign of someone having a stroke, or active drug use. Again, Though you don't see the whites of his eyes under his pupils in every other way this resembles a sociopathic stare.
Notice the inner corners of the eyebrow going down and the outer part of the outline going sharply up he forms what is called the devil's horns, and how his forward wrinkles on the you, the viewer's left side mimic that horned shape. The brow and forehead lines are sharp-edged. Our limbic brain 'reads" sharp edges in silhouette, gestures, and facial expressions as dangerous. They indicate someone is not feeling normal healthy peaceful happy emotions that appear smooth rounded. In addition, his face shows a lack of symmetry. The left side of the face is different than the right side, even the eyebrows and the forehead wrinkles are different. A lack of facial symmetry also is "read by the limbic brain as a danger sign. I go deeper into the lack of symmetry later in this article.
Notice
how his lips are slightly
pressed together and appear thinner than normal indicating his anger.
Look at this photo. How do you feel? Typically
when somebody views a face expressing emotion of anger their limbic system responds very quickly with a strong emotion such as fear or
corresponding anger and may go into the the freeze flight fight fall or
faint response.
I’ve
analyzed perp walk courtroom behavior and mug shots for years, it is unusual to
see the mug shot of a white-collar criminal with such obvious anger.
It’s
also interesting to see the difference in the right and left side of his
face.
When
someone is feeling conflicting emotions their limbic system may show it on one
side of the face before they can fully control it so you see a lack of symmetry
on the left and right side of the face of someone who’s feeling conflicted
emotions.
Though
he is clearly angry, if you as the viewer put your hand over the right side of
the face you see the full complete facial configuration of the emotion of
anger. If you put your hand over the left side of the space you can see slight
traces of sadness at the mouth. As the outer corner of the lips is turned down
slightly. But it’s not true sadness because his eyebrows and forehead still are
in that focused downward motion of anger. So what he’s truly showing is the
mouth expression that people make signaling their disbelief or negation of
what’s going on.
Also,
note his extreme pupil dilation. While it’s highly unusual in most people and a
signal of possible stroke or brain injury or drug use. He has Jonas unusually
large pupil dilation from the very first time I read him for the international
news just before he ran for president the first time.
