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Donald Trump’s weird clothes: from shoulder pads to extremely long ties, what do they mean?
His sartorial choices are nothing if not bamboozling – so we went in search of some logic to the strange proportions and shiny fabrics
Menswear expert Derek Guy’s analysis of Trump’s intriguing sartorial choices went viral on X earlier this week, following the former president’s Tuesday interview with billionaire businessman Elon Musk. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/APTrump’s extraordinarily bulky jackets seem to be part of his ongoing quest to mask his shape, but the shoulder pads that he wore when interviewed by Musk are a sartorial paradox that someone ( maybe Ivanka?) Photograph: Vincent Carchietta/USA Today SportsIt’s hard to maintain a photogenic angle when you’re trying to play a game, and Trump famously accused malign agents of maxing his stomach with AI, after one particularly unflattering shot of him, mid-swing.
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