When in doubt, pout.

President Trump told staffers working on his campaign that he wanted to look 'like [Winston] Churchill' in photographs and images, believing that he would appear tougher according to a new report in The New York Times.

That is why Donnie, like Winnie, reportedly prefers to scowl, squint and maintain a general sourpuss on his face whenever he is in front of a camera.

It also explains why President Trump may have returned the bust of the prime minister to the Oval Office, with the proximity to his own desk allowing him to practice the downcast frown and furrowed brow favored by the former leader of the United Kingdom.

There is little else Trump has in common with Churchill however, who was a wartime hero, a lifelong politician, a writer, a painter, a loyal husband and a celebrated orator whose most famous speech was a passionate denouncement of the policies and politics of Russia at the start of the Cold War.

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Blank face: Staffers who worked with President Donald Trump on his campaign claim that he modeled his look after Prime Minster Winston Churchill

Pivot and pout: Trump reportedly believes he will appear tougher if he scowls and squints like the former leader of the United Kingdom

Growl and bear it: President Trump would veto any campaign images that showed signs of weakness claim staffers

Churchill managed to amass a remarkable resume of impressive accomplishments over the course of his lifetime, achieving an unprecedented number of feats in his 90 years.

By the age of 25, Churchill had fought in four wars, written three books about his experiences on the battlefield and laid the groundwork for his political career with his one, and only, unsuccessful run for Parliament.

It was at that age that Churchill, while acting as a wartime correspondent during the Second Boer War, was captured and placed in a South African POW camp.

He was able to eventually escape, and his heroics at the time would have likely been awarded with a military medal many believed, but this was not possible due to the fact that he was a civilian.

Trump had just been handed his father's company at the age of 25, with his first move being to change the name from Elizabeth Trump & Son to the Trump Organization.

The Vietnam War was still playing out overseas, but Trump managed to avoid the draft with four student deferments while in college and later a medical deferment because he claimed to have 'heel spurs.'

It was at this age that Trump and his father began to draw the attention of the Justice Department, who had received multiple complaints that the organization was systematically discriminating against African Americans looking to rent apartments in their buildings.

Aspirational avatar: President Trump's Twitter picture (left) is a perfect example of the image he believes works best for him, and he ooks just like Churchill

Over it in a overcoat: The frown appears to be molded into both men's faces at times

Rare smile: President Trump and Churchill relaying a message of peace and showing off a small smile

Churchill was elected to parliament for the first time in 1900, and soon began to rise up the ranks in the 40 years until he became prime minister.

During that time he also became a renowned wartime hero known the world over for his valor on the western front while continuing to be a voracious writer and historian who in 1953 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

He also picked up painting as a hobby along the way, and created a number of critically praised landscapes.

President Trump, whose proposed budget would cut all funding to public arts, once destroyed two Art Deco friezes from the front of the building her knocked down to build Trump Tower despite having promised to donate them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

He was never a wartime hero and did not serve in political office, but did publicly accuse the sitting president of forging his birth certificate in order to lie about the country of his birth.

And though the real estate scion did release a number of books over the past three decades, no literary accolades have come his way.

Scowling at the sun: Churchill, in addition to being prime minister, was a wartime hero and accomplished painter who won the Nobel Price for Literature

Angrily aloof: Churchill was also one of the first leaders to denounce the policies and politics of Russia in his famous 'Iron Curtain' speech at the start of the Cold War

But Trump, like Churchill, does press his face into a squinty-eye scowl while being photographed.

The two men were also both Americans, with Churchill becoming the very first of just eight people to be granted an honorary citizenship.