*sigh*

I was having dinner tonight and I was trying not to look too weird because of my recent infatuation (which is really the only fitting way describe it) with Peter Sarsgaard. What I mean by "trying not to look too weird" is that he's a large part of what I've been thinking about (I don't want to say "all I can think about", because I am thinking of some other things as well, believe it or not) these past few days or so. What comes with this is some funky facial expressions on my part (they're supposed to express happiness/satisfaction about having found someone whose appearance I would like to look at, and also whose voice I would like to hear say things), and contented sighing. Cheesy, I know. So hence, "trying not to look too weird" about it all since I was around my family members and I don't need them asking about this. I'd rather keep it to myself. I think/hope maybe in a few days I'll be able to cool it a little bit regarding this. It's enjoyable and all, but I also feel like I'm just absolutely going crazy over him (in a mostly good, harmless way, but still). I'm pretty sure I was more or less like this back when I was getting into Law and Order and Vincent's performance as Detective Goren. Also eyelashes guy on CNN. So this is far from unprecedented.  

So then the thought came to me that at least he's a decent person and he's not super weird looking like, say, Marilyn Manson, and he's also not a despicable person like Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Bill O'Reilly, Mike Pence, Adolf Hitler, etc. In that light, it seems quite acceptable/reasonable to be like this about him. Better him than one of those other people I just listed. I'm just waiting till I have a strange dream starring him. I wonder what that'll be like. I certainly have been thinking about him enough that I could see it happening for him to show up in a dream. (Edit: as of June 12, I have not dreamed about him yet that I remember, but I did dream last night about Jared Leto...)

Which then led me to wonder if there are people out there that find the men I've listed under despicable persons to be attractive. I feel like it's definitely possible but it's also a freaky idea to think about. Let's say there are two different subsets: finding them physically attractive but not liking them as people, and finding them physically attractive while liking them as people as well. Both subsets are still a strange idea to fathom, but I can somewhat understand the first one slightly. The second one... yikes. 

Anyways, I would like to see what people have to say about this, so I googled "Donald Trump is attractive"... my comments on what I've found coming up! Firstly though I would like to hypothesize that it's more likely that Trump supporters would find Donald Trump to be physically attractive. Also as you can see this post fits in nicely with my recent shallowness related posts. 

Exhibit 1: here is a Slate article from February of last year (unintentional reference) so it's sort of outdated, but I still think there could be some interesting information contained within. One of the quotes so far: "whatever Trump's appeal, it's not of a sexual variety"
And: Melania "has declared him the 'sexiest man in the world,'" which is frightening to think about. 
So far, this article seems to be about what I was looking for. It quotes an evolutionary psychologist who says that the notable physical characteristics of Donald Trump are not objectively/scientifically attractive, and that it's more likely that women are attracted to his status and prestige. So basically because he's rich, they're attracted to him. But money can't buy good looks (at least past a certain extent/amount of plastic surgery). 
In 1976 an article about Donald Trump described him as "tall, lean and blond." You can be tall, lean and blonde but still be ugly. Although he probably did look ever so slightly less bad back then. But not good looking by any means in my opinion. 

Exhibit 2: Now an article from Vice, published in March 2016, so still not super current either. It has some interviews with a number of people who find Donald Trump to be attractive. It opens with saying that "Donald Trump is an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, wrapped in cash" which is a fair enough description. 

One of the women interviewed for this article said: "I like tall men with broad shoulders." Okay, fine, but there are a ton of tall men with broad shoulders who aren't Donald Trump. "I want to feel protected with a man. Donald comes off as physically imposing, but approachable in his interviews." More like appalling... 
"I also really love his teeth, even if they are veneers." ... Interesting that she mentioned teeth, but it's Donald Trump we're talking about, and his teeth are fake, and he's Donald Trump. I like someone who has nice real teeth (guess who!) and is also a decent person, as opposed to Donald Trump.
She says that his "success and ability to project confidence" is more important than his fame and money... uh, okay. I guess what I see as being completely oblivious, this lady takes as projecting confidence... 
Then she concludes that Donald Trump suffers from rosacea and that's why he has the fake tan. I'm really curious as to how she came to that conclusion about the rosacea. And about his hair: "I don't really have any problem with the hair. I actually kind of like it." No comment.
She says that she "understands" that Donald Trump is nicer when he's not on camera. I find that somewhat hard to believe. She says that even if he weren't rich, she would think that he's hot. Again, I have no words. 

Another woman who was interviewed: "He's really cute, with his little boy face." This is just... a strange comment all around. This lady also says "I think he looks great. He's 6'3", with his wide shoulders, beautiful skin, those blue eyes. It's all there. And he walks like a man walks!" WTF is all that I can say here. Especially about the "beautiful skin" part. "He knows what he wants and how to get it, and that's alluring." Okay, I sort of understand that, I guess. Although if we look at how he's been doing as president, I don't think he's quite as good at getting what he wants as one might think. 

In this article, there was a link to another article where someone photoshopped Donald Trump to try and make him look better. The result is... freaky. I would say it looks like Liev Schreiber a little bit, but that's probably doing a disservice to Liev Schreiber. 

Anyways, speaking of Donald Trump appearance related things, I saw a police officer today whose hair reminded me of Donald Jr and/or Eric Trump. I wonder if the police officer got a hairstyle like that on purpose to resemble the Trump sons. If so, yikes. Although it's possible that maybe he didn't and it's just an unfortunate coincidence. This guy also had a sleeve tattoo, which I wasn't aware was allowed for the local police officers. But apparently it is. In terms of police officers I've seen, he wasn't exactly appealing due to the haircut and the sleeve tattoo. Sorry, random police officer guy. 

I thought that looking this up was... sort of enlightening/insightful, but in an unpleasant way. The fact that some people find him attractive... eek! And I'm totally just going crazy over Peter Sarsgaard at the moment. I really, really am. 

Edit: Today I watched MSNBC for a change and there was a little segment on how Melania is finally moving to the White House. Which got me wondering how on earth she can be (or at least, was in the past, since currently their relationship seems like it might be kind of frosty) attracted to him. Yikes! (again)