It’s known that all of our skin suits look bad on-screen. It’s why Khloé Kardashian travels with her own lighting, and the oldest trick in television’s book is something called pan stick. Beauty vloggers just figured out how to look good on camera, like, two years ago. And there are plenty of perfectly lovely and fragile people who haven’t leaned in with confidence to the power bald and instead made this kind of mistake—like basketball player Carlos Boozer, famously, and so many actors, allegedly. In 2018, it can sometimes feel a bit transgressive—or even endearing—when men put their insecurities on display.

But for Miller, this seems like the natural end result of working for an image-obsessed man who cannot prevent himself from hijacking his own appearance, or those around him. Everyone working under Trump somehow morphs into a bizarro version of themselves, as if from a panic of self-doubt. Sean Spicer grew oranger and his suits darker, allegedly at his boss‘s request. Sarah Huckabee Sanders does a nighttime eye for day. Melania Trump’s brunette locks turned to straw. How like this administration all of it is: to care so much about something so empty, and then execute it poorly. Everybody is constantly getting the equivalent of panicked break-up bangs to try and fit some ideal of the man watching them on the small screen.

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