Did you ever notice how often Trump gleefully uses his mug shot?

[Grim Chieftain]

Time and time again it appears in promos, in the White House pictures or portraits, for his proposed image on the $250 bill, for its proposed inclusion on Mt. Rushmore, on and on. Only a very sick sociopath would see that as a glamour shot. No, you felon, it's a sign of disgrace and criminality.

[C_U_L8R]

1. He's a child.

The very worst child you could imagine.

[tanyev]

2. He thinks he looks like a combination of Winston Churchill and Robert Redford.

Seriously.

[wcmagumba]

3. Douche bags gonna douche...He'll never quit...May Dog help us all...

[OC375]

4. It's an old trope

"The Outlaw"

We have a culture that idolizes doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. To his guys, this is one of those things, even though he didn't get it fighting for them, he got it being a shit. I doubt they know why he's a felon.

G. Gordon Liddy use to brag about being a felon. Just started keeping the guns on his wife's side of the bed after that, to show everyone he's hardcore to the end. Ugh.

Many politicians in the past have bandied about mug shots to show a finger to the systems, they didn't break me, etc... It sells to the already initiated.

It's trite and transparent.

[Hey Joe]

5. It's funny, (and quite pathetic), that he thinks

anyone would mistake this broken down old
nepo baby grifter for a tough guy!

[MustLoveBeagles]

6. The other posters are correct

I also think he does it to rub our faces in the fact that got away with all of it. He's an🍊 troll.

[Blue Owl]

7. What's so hard about putting that senile pedophile behind bars?

[MustLoveBeagles]

8. Ikr?

It's not like he hides what he does.

[Rob H.]

9. The portrait for the $250 bill is his second official portrait

He does look as if he's channeling his mugshot, though. The more he tries to make himself look like a hard-ass the more pathetic it is.

[MichMan]

10. I remember when posters here were excited when it got leaked

Thought it would be damaging for him.

[allegorical oracle]

11. That picture is for hanging up on the porch at Halloween. Scary.

[StoolPigeon]

12. Well, we all need material for our dart boards