User:Cullen328/sandbox/Trump mugshot

Appearance on newspaper front pages
Many newspapers featured the mug shot on their front pages, including the New York Daily News, USA Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Jersey Journal, the Star-Advertiser in Honolulu, the Anchorage Daily News, the Dothan Eagle in Alabama, the Arizona Daily Sun, La Opinión in Los Angeles, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Chicago Sun Times, the Tampa Bay Times, The Oregonian, The Villages Daily Sun in Florida, the Dallas Morning News, the Calgary Sun, Le Journal de Montréal, El Universal in Mexico City, Milenio in Mexico, and Dawn in Pakistan.

Other international newspapers that ran the mug shot on their front pages in include the Toronto Star, La Repubblica and O Globo. The BBC reported that three newspapers in the United Kingdom had featured the mug shot, The Guardian, the Daily Mirror and The Sun.

The Independent observed that "the 45th president glowers straight into the camera, brow furrowed and sizable bushy eyebrows lowered as he faces his fate", adding "it is an undeniable fact that Trump’s mug shot is both historically and culturally significant – and soon to be seen everywhere, forever."

Vanessa Friedman of the New York Times wrote that "his face is lit from above by a blinding white flash that hits his ash blond hair like a spotlight. As usual, he is dressed in the colors of the American flag: navy suit, white shirt, bright red tie — though his typical flag lapel pin is either absent or invisible in the picture. He glowers out from beneath his brows, unsmiling, eyes rendered oddly bloodshot, brow furrowed, chin tucked in, as if he is about to head-butt the camera. The image is stark, shorn of the flags and fancy that have been Mr. Trump’s preferred framings for photo ops at Mar-a-Lago or Trump Tower, or during his term in office, and that communicate power and the gilded glow of success." Friedman quoted Sean Wilentz as calling the mugshot "dramatically unprecedented ".

The Telegraph said "The 45th president is pictured striking a hostile pose, with his eyebrows contracted, lips pursed and a menacing scowl on his face.His head and the top of his shoulders are visible in what is likely to become a world-famous image."

Months before the mugshot was taken, Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump predicted that it would "go down in history as the most famous mugshot ever to exist in America." The Washington Post reported that a Trump spokesperson predicted that the photo would be the "most manly, most masculine, most handsome mug shot of all time." The Associated Press called the mugshot "an enduring image that will appear in history books long after Donald Trump is gone." His facial expression was described as an "intense glare" adding "His defiance is palpable, as if he’s staring down a nemesis through the lens." Time said, "His platinum blonde cotton candy wisp of hair shimmering in the harsh jailhouse lighting. His eyes locked in a hard stare. His mouth flattened in a grimace. Instead of smiling like some of his co-defendants, he appears to be scowling."