'Trump is lying': Analysis shows ex-president exhibited 'contempt' during press conference
On Thursday, former President Donald Trump approached a gaggle of reporters with a wad of news clippings and proceeded to thumb through them to suggest they prove he's being persecuted (not prosecuted) in his historic criminal hush money trial.
A body language and emotional intelligence expert noted the unspoken things Trump is expressing while going on a rambling speech about his purported unfair treatment.
"These are all stories from legal experts saying how this is not a case," Trump said, after shuffling out of the Manhattan criminal courtroom that he noted was "freezing" cold. "The case is ridiculous."
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A lengthy thread posted on Twitter/X by Dr. Jack Brown detailed an analysis of the 45th president during his makeshift news clippings show-and-tell.
"In this video segment Trump says, 'The trial spectacle begins' – that's Wall Street Journal. It's a spectacle. Every one of these [pause] 'America is the [sic] third world [pause] country.'"
Brown harps on the word "spectacle" and with a screen grab of the former president's face, he suggests, when the word is spoken, Trump "displays contempt on the right side of his face."
The nonverbal behavior expert suggests Trump shows this same "contempt" a couple times.
When Trump says, "America's a third world country" Brown notices that he "exhibits two (different) consecutive tongue tells/behaviors in rapid succession."
One is a "loose tongue jut" that he writes indicates the "thought-emotion" of "Just said/about to say something stupid" or "I've been bad," "I've got caught," and "I just lied/about to lie."
Brown adds, "Trump is lying. He does NOT believe America is a third world country."
The expert apparently saw in Trump him mouthing "America's a third world country" before speaking it and, in that windup, he writes that "Trump is experiencing pleasure. This is a classic body language manifestation of Sadistic Personality Disorder."
What's more, out of the few minutes of Trump trying to show off all the stories, mostly editorials, supposedly defending him in the trial where he stand accused of 34 counts of falsifying business records to protect himself from exposure of two alleged sexual affairs with porn star Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy playmate, he's showing his neurological issues, according to Brown's analysis.
"In addition," he writes, "Trump also continues to display, and with increasing frequency, phonemic paraphasia consistent with progressive dementia."