Donald Trump traveled to Georgia on Friday to roast a Democratic senator for worrying too much about his looks.
Between the jabs, the president offered the country a rare glimpse into his own vanity bag instead.
The 80-year-old spent part of his speech dissecting his rival’s appearance, but critics watching at home were fixated on something else entirely.
Right in the middle of the roast, Trump volunteered a rare personal detail about how he gets camera-ready.
He gave a reason that raised more eyebrows than the jab itself.
For a man whose appearance has been under a microscope all year, it was a bold topic to bring up. The internet wasted no time pointing that out.
Trump touched down in Dalton, Georgia, on Oct. 16 to fire up voters for Rep. Mike Collins.
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Mike Collins, the Republican trying to unseat Sen. Jon Ossoff in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country.
With early voting already underway, Trump spent a good chunk of his time on stage grading the candidates’ faces.
He called Collins “a good-looking man” who is “all man.” He gushed over the congressman’s “white hair” and “big, strong build,” and then turned to Ossoff.
“Somebody said he’s a good-looking man. I don’t think he’s a good-looking man,” Trump said, per Mediaite. Then he slapped the 39-year-old senator with the nickname “Pee-wee Herman.”
Then he went after Ossoff’s grooming.
“Jon Ossoff spent money on makeup. By the way, I wear very little and I do it myself,” Trump told supporters.
“If you don’t put a little on, you look like a dead person. I don’t want to look that way.”
Trump also claimed Ossoff “spends more money on makeup than any man or woman in the history of the Senate.” He offered no proof.
While the president owned up to wearing makeup himself, he insisted his is “light” compared to the senator’s.
For viewers who have watched Trump’s face cycle through shades of tangerine for years, the confession landed less like breaking news and more like confirmation.
“Well, it does look like he does it himself,” one person wrote. Another skipped the subtlety entirely: “Dude. Pay someone. You seriously suck at applying that orange goo.”
A third chimed in, “We know Trump does his own makeup…yikes that makeup line he couldn’t blend a smoothie.”
Others zeroed in on the “very little” part of his claim. “I wear very little, but I use a putty knife for that natural look,” one user joked, while another pointed out that “he wears more makeup on his hands to cover his bruises than ossoff.”
That last jab didn’t come out of nowhere. Photographers have repeatedly caught Trump with visible bruising on his right hand during his second term, sometimes covered with what appears to be concealer.
The White House has blamed frequent handshaking and aspirin use, and his physician disclosed last year that Trump had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a condition that can cause skin discoloration.
The “dead person” line also hit differently given how the president’s look has been described lately.
Back in August, a photo of Trump with his eyes shut in the back of his motorcade had critics comparing him to an embalmed corpse.
His DIY routine isn’t exactly a state secret, either. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie claimed last year that he once walked in on Trump doing his own makeup aboard Air Force One, and that Trump offered to touch up his face too.
Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham also wrote in her 2021 memoir “I’ll Take Your Questions Now” that the president’s look came from makeup he applied every morning.
Ossoff, meanwhile, framed Trump’s visit as a gift to Democrats. He said he was “surprised Georgia Republicans want the president here,” arguing it would remind voters that Trump and Collins have pushed policies that sent the cost of groceries, fuel and health care soaring.
The numbers suggest the beauty-pageant routine may not be moving many voters.
A recent Trafalgar Group poll cited by Mediaite showed Ossoff leading Collins 51 percent to 43 percent.
Collins may have the “big, strong build” Trump admires, but heading into the final stretch, it’s Ossoff who has the edge, with no bronzer required.
