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Donald Trump’s weird clothes: from shoulder pads to extremely long ties, what do they mean?

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Donald Trump has always cut a peculiar figure on the world stage due to the juxtaposition between his tweedledum figure and primate-dominance loom.

But his clothing choices are pretty weird’ too: is he doing it on purpose, to amplify the bafflement and make you question your own reality? Or is he all out of vanity and self-consciousness? Menswear expert Derek Guy's analysis of Trump ’s intriguing sartorial choices went viral on X.

Trump favours a modern white polo and dark slacks, and all the pizzazz associated with the sport is limited to some fancy monochrome golf brogues.

Trump famously accused malign agents of maxing his stomach with AI , after one unflattering shot of him mid-swing.