Under Trump's Skin

Trigger Warning: This post includes pictures of the twice-impeached felon.

I’m usually not one to do instant analysis, but I couldn’t resist this.

Several times during tonight’s debate, Donald Trump demonstrated one of his most common involuntary “tells.” Every time Kamala Harris said something that was about to make him short circuit, he used his patented trademarked smirk, which telegraphed the fact that he was about to go on an unhinged rant.

The most shining example is the studied closed-lipped grin intended to mask his inner rage:

You could tell that Kamala Harris got under his skin like an infestation of deer ticks. Literally every time he made this face (or some version of it), he went from being moderately rational to flying off the handle and angrily ranting and bouncing from one unrelated subject to another.

There were, of course, variations on the theme, such as the dejected Donald: