He looks more presentable with a hat on. Without it, his head is sort of grotesequely large and round, like Charlie Brown in a photorealistic CGI Peanuts animation. Or maybe this:

The president arrives for his meeting with Cyril Ramaphosa.

Perhaps the Great Leap Forward is also a good analogy. It was a radical reorientation of industrial/ag policy with an exclusively domestic emphasis. It was similarly ill-conceived and incompetently rolled out. Killed at least 30 million people, maybe twice that.

There are a few images of American GI's who participated in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. In these pictures, the soldiers look stunned, shocked, or just numb.

Kristi Noem has the demeanor of the camp commandant, the person in charge of the torture and death.

You know how when you open Firefox and it presents a row of your most visited sites? This is how Twitter showed up on mine today.

That he's doing his performative fascism in front of a snarling crowd and a sea of compliant media in an arena that regularly showcases professional wrestling is just so on the nose. This is his most comfortable venue, ensconced in the WWE presidency, but with extra brownshirts.

Elmo and the MAGA boys think it's all coming to this.

This, on the other hand, is real.
"They're eating the food of your dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the dog's food. They're eating the food of the pets of the people that live there, and this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame."