His name was the Shadow President and ordered the attention during a joint Oval Office interview where he stood next to President Trump.
Now, after Sean Hannity Elon Musk and Trump compared with 'brothers' during a softball joint interview on FOX News, a body language expert tells DailyMail.com that it is Trump that came by side by side.
'Trump was bent and spread in an alpha position with his knees. His hands were clamped between his legs, but not in his usual high status tower. Instead, his fingers and his thumbs hang, which suggested that he was not completely on top of his game with Musk, “expert Judi James told DailyMail.com.
She spoke after the two men were close together during the interview in the White House. Trump often looked in the direction of Musk as he spoke, at one point he asked him about his next space election and occasionally gave the Doge chef when it was his turn to respond.
“This will be difficult. I have the feeling that I interview two brothers here, “said Hannity at one point.
That was an observation that did not go well with James.
'It was awkward and lazy to define them here as' like brothers', despite the need to create the idea of ​​a more well -known form of binding than' US President 'and' Tech Tycoon '. The suggestion also did not match the two men, based on their more subtle non-verbal answers or 'tells', she concluded.
A body language expert compared President Trump's body language with a dominant Zilverback gorilla in his side-by-side interview with Elon Musk, which comes in the midst of public caricatures that the doge head is really in charge
'Both looked down on an acceleration that suggested that they want to hide their inner feelings. Musk's mouth pulled down in a micro expression that looked affected, while Trump's smile disappeared from good mood and he took over control by moving Hannity from the subject with a “You Go Toy”.
James said that Trump and Musk are such an unorthodox that this interview has taken the body language story of a Royal Engagement interview by allowing the public to investigate the dynamics of their relationship in close-up technicolor. '
But James, just like Americans who see the relationship unfold, still has questions about how it will unfold – with enormous commitment to the government and the public. 'Does it work? Does it look authentic, does it look like a partnership of convenience and, especially, will it end in a bitter 'divorce'? “She asked.
'If comparisons were to be drawn, the heavyweight, Silverfack Body Leel of Trump and the bustling, exciting body language of Musk would look more like a father-son dynamic, although Trump never shown one of these characteristics in public with his own children. '
The two men in turn answered questions with Sean Hannity, in which Trump sometimes plays a traffic agent
Trump joked about the dress codes of Musk's young assistants who implant in government agencies. Musk shared his 'Tech Support' T-shirt, which fired Trump by saying that Musk is 'much more than that'
Although he may have come as the big gorilla in the room, Trump complained for an important moment about signing Feckless Executive Orders – and trusted on Musk and his team of youthful enforcers to perform them.
'You try to get them out as quickly as possible. But I could – as soon as he said that, I said, “You know, that's interesting.” You write a beautiful manager – and you sign it and you assume it is ready, but it is not, “Trump ventes.
“What he does is that he takes it and with his hundred geniuses – he has some very brilliant young people who work for him that dress much worse than he,” Trump said before he left to describe their dress.
“They dress in t-shirts alone,” Trump said to laugh. You would not know they have 180 IQ. '
This led to Musk to let his T-shirt flash with 'tech support'-a sense that minimizes the richest man in the world as desks that were immersed by Doge, dismissed thousands of federal employees.
“So, what – he is – he is your technical support?” asked Hannity.
“I am actually virtually technical support,” Musk replied.
“He is much more than that,” Trump experienced.
According to James: “Trump grinned a lot when Musk spoke and he even played a grin and partial tongue that indicated that the two men had shared jokes and humor together.”
The comments came in an interview in which Musk called the attempt in the life of Trump the “precipitation event” that led him. Musk would eventually spend $ 288 million to choose Trump.
Trump rewarded him with a critical, or unpaid post, whose authority is now reduced in legal archives, while the government is confronted with lawsuits for Doge actions. Musk has speculation that Trump would quickly throw him over the side.
'There was some uncomfortable -looking mirroring, in which the two men took comparable poses, but with some meaningful differences. This would indicate huge amounts of like -curdled thinking, but also some intrinsic, differences, “according to James.
It was Trump 'Acting Actured' when the conversation focused on alleged conflicts of interest. (Trump had denied a conflict on Tuesday when he denied that he knows that Doge and SpaceX assistants were being installed in the Pentagon and the FAA.
'Musk provided the strokes of flattery, while Trump purified. But it was still Trump with the help of the kind of gestures that proved that he is still in the lead, “said James.
Even if Musk accepts huge forces, Trump was the interview, or at least the traffic in Leiden when Hannity, who advised him in the past, asked the questions.
“As questions were asked, Trump carried out that you made passing-by-signs, his head to Musk tends in a nod to let him know that he had permission to answer something,” James said.
'Trump's reward-chucking says Musk that he would continue, but there was also a time when Trump closed Musk. Asked for the problem of one percent waste fraud, Musk faltered him and Trump closed him by putting a hand on his arm, this happened twice and Musk admitted by nodding instead of going on a non-verbal powerful battle. '
Just like in a troop monkeys, it is worth seeing both the Alfa and any rising aggressive younger men who try to replace him.
'Musk offers a fascinating counterpoint for Trump's very animal alpha rod steel characteristics. Trump's traditional silver back behavior includes a more static, sultry presence when he is bent in his chair, limits himself to minimal movement and retains a gloomy solemn facial expression, “said James, who responded to the dynamics.
It was a turning point of the earlier Oval Office interview – Musk's first joint performance opposite the press with Trump.
'The interview in the Oval Office with Musk's son who was present seemed to break all the rules of Trump's body language. Musk and son “stable” the cameras and Musk to show Trump for TIE statements of permission or approval without signs of eye control, while his little son stared at Trump while he was sitting at the Oval Office Desk.
'Trump stood in silence on the side of the shot who, for a man who never shares the spotlights, let alone that it is taken from him, was a unique scene.
'We didn't even see signs that Trump was Cool that a small child had an important press conversation. There were no signs of recognition or cheerful indulgence from Trump to suggest that his office was an official free-for-all.
In the new interview, to determine who is at the top, it can be wise to look at the hands.
'The most important gesture that the power of Musk suggested that was not met or surpassed by Trump was the hand gesture of Steepling. This ritual of the finger-steepling is normally a status position. Trump tends to use the downward steep, but Musk's stakeholders raised hands and a front tuck with tense thumbs and fingertips to fingertip touch. This would all suggest status, leadership, intellect and power, “said James.
