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But it didn't take long for someone to point out this inconvenient truth:
"If you cover the right side of his face with your hand and squint he looks like Joe biden."
Have a look for yourself!
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Others raised the same question.
Many tried this out for themselves—and they couldn't disagree.
In a press release, the Trump-Vance transition team said the photos of Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance—whose own photo is less tightly framed and shows him smiling—"go hard," adding:
"In just four days, Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States and JD Vance as the 50th Vice President of the United States — and their official portraits are here."
But the image of Trump in particular, The New York Timeswrote last week, "does not exactly scream celebration," noting that Trump is "shown sternly squinting, bathed in eerie, David Lynchian lighting from below, high-powered strobes reflected in his eyes" in a pose not dissimilar to the one "he struck for his 2024 mug shot, taken by the Fulton County, Georgia, sheriff’s office in that state’s election interference case."
Trump's portrait, captured a few weeks ago by his chief photographer, Daniel Torok, was specifically intended for the inauguration. A separate photograph will soon be chosen as his official presidential portrait, which will then be distributed to government agencies and American embassies worldwide.
Sometimes, however, hiding the fact that we goofed up simply isn't possible.
In extreme cases, these blunders will likely never be forgotten by us or those who witnessed them.
Redditor moegreeb was eager to hear about people's all-time biggest, most embarrassing goofs, leading them to ask:
"What's your favourite "Oops, I just really f*cked up" moment?"
"It was my first day as a help desk technician."
"I had been asked to change printer toner on the main printer in the company office."
"I pulled the black toner out, and I dropped it."
"The thing exploded like it was a new years' fireworks show."
"All over me, all over the floor, all over the printer."
"Even 10 years later, I still think they're digging toner out of the cubicle.'
"I looked like one of those cartoon images where Elmer Fudd was given a bomb just before it exploded and then it blew up."
"Fortunately my boss was my friend, and he laughed his a** off."
"Photos, email distribution, the works."
"I made my best effort to clean it up until the facilities guy shoved me aside and said 'Let me do it'."
"With his nuclear-powered backpack vacuum."
"I'm just glad it wasn't the yellow I dropped."
"I didn't want to look like I peed my pants all day."- EarHumble1248
"I had just started a new job as a registered sales assistant at a major firm."
"All fresh and excited with my new Series 7, I was ready to do trades."
"My supervisor handed me a client’s statement and told me to liquidate the holdings."
"Not noticing some of the holdings were highlighted, I proceeded to liquidate the entire account instead of about 25% of it."
"Worst part, I didn’t realize it until she came over (she could see the trades in real-time as I was selling) and asked me WHAT WAS I DOING?! "
"I got red, heated, and ran to compliance to get it fixed."
"Our compliance officer told me to dry my tears, take a walk, and have a coke - he called it my rite of passage."
"Never had another trading error."- fake-august
"I prepaid for gas and never pumped it."
"I just paid, walked out the door and got in my car and drove off."- stupidsexyf1anders
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"I was a brand new, right out of college Computer Programmer (back before we had Software Developers)."
"We worked on minicomputers at the time, and I had a long process that I needed to run, which tied up my terminal."
"I went into the storage closet and dragged out another terminal so that I could do stuff while the process ran."
"An old version of multi-taking."
"You kids have no idea how easy you have it nowadays."
"Well, because the new kid had two terminals, none of the other programmers wanted to look less productive, so everyone else did that."
"Then a week or so later, the president of the company came back to the programmer area so he could mess around with some new hardware that came in."
"He looked around and said, 'Looks like everybody has two terminals now!'"
"Being a smart-a**, I quicky quipped, 'Well, we all have two hands!'"
"Which was met with silence."
"Huh, usually my quips get at least a chuckle."
"It was then that I remembered that the president of the company did not, in fact, have two hands."
"He had a birth defect, and one did not develop properly."- Bigfops
"Got a basketball stuck high up in a tree one time, I thought it would be a good idea to throw a rock at it to dislodge it."
"My dad’s car was under the tree, and the rock went right through the windshield on the way down."- OreoKing10
"Recommended a buddy of mine to work with me."
"Gave him extremely high praises because he truly does deserve it."
"He failed the drug test."
"Last time I ever recommend anyone for a job."- LoweeLL
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"I got a text from one of my higher-ups in the military about needing to change barracks rooms, and he had a b*tchy tone, so I immediately screenshotted it and sent it to my GF with the caption 'Look at this b*tch.'"
"But as soon as I hit 'send' I saw I sent it back to him instead."
"The following days were not fun for me."- sasqualtch
"Just yesterday, I was coming home from the pre-dinner walk (5 pm road rush time) with my husky; I got to my door, and like a total f*cking idiot, I shuffled the order of operations."
"I unclasped his leash then pulled out my keys to open my door, turned around and my boy was gone."
"Spend 20 minutes playing what seemed like a fun game of tag for him, but it was incredibly scary for me because he was weaving across busy roads."
"Finally got em, but it was totally a TIFU, and I was glad that we all got home safe for dinner."- sjbennett85
"I was fresh out of undergrad and working at a small university."
"One of my coworkers came out crying, so I asked her what was wrong."
"She said she just got a phone call that her sister lost her leg."
"I didn't mean to say it, but my brain decided for me, and I replied to her 'Oh, well I hope she finds it!'..."
"Her sister's leg was run over and cut off by a trolley."
"They did not need help locating it."
"She did take the joke like a champ though and even thanked me later for 'adding some light hearted humor, and making her laugh'."
"Like her sister's leg, I left the part where I didn't mean to say it cut off."- milkandcookies21
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"Wouldn’t say it’s my 'favorite' but it’s one that haunts me the most."
"When I was in college I went to a computer in the school library."
"They were on these big circular desks with computers all around."
"It was morning so I was kind of tired, some people were on the computers working already."
"And me being kind of tired still, I sat there got on a computer and then I stretched my arms and then stretched my legs out, and unfortunately the power strip for the computers was near me on my side and my foot his the button on the power strip and turned off all the computers on that desk I don’t remember what she looked like, but I still remember the kind of look of quiet anger and frustration of this girl that was working on a paper, just suddenly lose all of her work."
"She just quietly got up and walked away."
"I would’ve felt better if she just stood up and punched me in the face."- Lobothehobosexual
"High school gym class, playing street hockey in the gym."
"One of the guys in my class picks up the net and kind of jokingly pretends to throw it at me."
"I say, 'Hey, it's all fun and games until you lose an eye!'
"He just quietly puts the net down and walks away, as I slowly remember, horrified, that he had lost an eye in a skiing accident a few years earlier."
"He had a glass eye, so it wasn't always immediately obvious."
"I wanted to melt through the bleachers."- mirandanmf
"I just started a new chef job at my dream restaurant."
"I had been there for a couple weeks and prepping in the back kitchen when I went to put a cutting board back on the rack."
"I didn’t realize it was falling to the side, and it was too late when hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars of restaurant white dishware fell, shattering to the ground. plates, bowls, ramekins, trays, you name it."
"Still can’t believe they kept me."- WearyEnthusiasm6643
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"Somehow when I was in high school (late 90s), everyone who still lived at home at the time had waterbeds, which made moving into a new house a bit of a pain in the a**."
"I remember getting all of the beds set up and having the garden hose in the last one to fill it up."
"While this is happening, the van with the rest of the house in it arrived and everyone goes to start unloading."
"No one is watching this last waterbed fill."
"Several hours later over pizza, my sister comes into the kitchen and says that the carpet in the hallway is wet."
"And we all had a collective "Really f*cked up" moment."
"The bed had overfilled to the point that the fill nozzle was like three feet over the sides of the frame, the mattress was horribly stretched, the hose had detached and was just dumping onto the floor."
"It took several hours to shopvac the water out of the carpet, but we were able to deflate and salvage the mattress at least."- PowerSkunk92
"When I was in college and my dad lived in DC, he bought me a plane ticket to go visit him."
"I went to Texas A&M, so the closest major city was Houston, and I’d never flown out of there before."
"So I arrive at the airport about an hour and a half before my flight, and I can’t find the check in for Southwest Airlines."
"So I asked an airport employee, and he gave me this look like, 'Dude, please tell me you’re not being serious right now'.”
"I was at IAH and Southwest only flies out of Hobby, which is all the way on the other side of Houston, and it was rush hour."
"I did not make the flight."- ice-eight
"Coaching my young (7-year olds) son’s hockey team, and after a few practices, I just have to walk up to one of the mothers."
"tryingtobeopen: 'Excuse me, but is there any chance you have a younger sister that went to XX high school?'"
"Mother: 'tryingtobeopen! It’s me!'"
"tryingtobeopen: [embarrassed expression]."- tryingtobeopen
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There's nothing worse than knowing you've spectacularly shoved your foot in your mouth.
Barring extraordinary cases, however, most of the time, the only way someone will notice you've f*cked up is if you notice it first.
That being said, asking a woman if she has a younger sister is NEVER going to end well, no matter the circumstances.
(...seriously, who is this guy...?)
MacLachlan, who starred in some of Lynch's most critically acclaimed projects such as the 1986 mystery thriller Blue Velvet and three seasons of the surrealist drama series Twin Peaks, shared his own personal tribute to his late collaborator.
"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie," wrote MacLachlan of his role as Paul Atreides in the 1984 sci-fi film Dune. It is the predecessor to Denis Villeneuve's recent two-part remake of the same name.
MacLachlan continued:
"He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision."
"What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to."
"Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met."
"David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath."
"While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own."
"I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice."
"We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other."
The mourning actor concluded his post with:
"I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone."
MacLachlan signed off with a nickname Lynch called him by, writing:
"David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."
The post was accompanied by many behind-the-scenes photos chronicling their time working together on various projects.
Actor Naomi Watts, who starred in Lynch's 2001 surrealist mysteryMulholland Drive was moved by MacLachlan's post and responded with:
"Oh what a wonderful tribute 💔💔💔 sending big love. I know all the good memories will be missed but trust they will keep you smiling too. No one like him. He loved you so xxx"
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Fans and friends in the industry also expressed condolences and remained inspired by MacLachlan and Lynch's collaborative partnership.
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In Twin Peaks, MacLachlan played Special Agent Dale Cooper, the FBI agent assigned to the murder investigation of Laura Palmer.
The first season, which premiered in 1990, received rave reviews and earned 14 Primetime Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for MacLachlan, and another for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for Lynch.
For the show's second season, MacLachlan won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series.
When discussion floated around to revisitTwin Peaks after its much-anticipated third season in 2017, MacLachlan said Cooper was his "favorite role of all time" and that he would "absolutely" reprise his role for a fourth season "without even seeing the script."
Lynch told Sight and Sound, in an interview in August 2024 that he was suffering from emphysema from years of smoking and was housebound as a result to prevent health risks.
His health declined rapidly after he was forced to evacuate from the Sunset fire, part of the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires that ravaged through 40,000 acres and destroyed roughly 12,300 structures, including homes.
The Hollywood visionary, famous for such cinematic masterpieces as Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive and Wild at Heart, died at his daughter's home on January 15, five days shy of his 79th birthday.
His family shared the sad news in a Facebook post that read:
“It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch."
“We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us."
"But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.”
Rest in Peace, David.
