Donald Trump 'doesn't want the world to see his double chin'

Donald Trump only lets photographers to take pictures of him from certain angles so that no one sees his double chin, according to a new book written by White House news photographers.

In ‘Ultimate Insiders, White House Photographers and How They Shape History’, a number of photographers report that The President loves having his picture taken.

But one of the book’s authors Kenneth T Walsh, the White House correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, claims Mr Trump is somewhat particular about the way he is pictured.

‘It’s clear that for many years Trump has sought to create and enhance an image of being a larger-than-life leader,’ says Walsh.

But, Walsh writes, the President does ‘as much as possible to minimize photos of him from the front at a low angle or from the sides, because he thought his double chin became too obvious.’

Mr Trump’s disdain for what he refers to as the ‘fake news media’ extends to photojournalists, the book claims.

‘[He is] deeply distrustful of what the called the ‘fake’ mainstream news media, including the photojournalists,’ Walsh writes.

Mr Trump is not the only president to carefully control the images of him that appear in the press, according to the photographers.

Barack Obama was extremely guarded over his image, and only allowed his official White House photographer Pete Souza to some key events, excluding other photojournalists.

Mr Souza has become something of a cult figure since the election of Mr Trump with a series of not-so-subtle barbs at the President.

After Mr Trump was accused of tweeting a misogynistic comment, Mr Souza posted a series of images on Instagram of Obama during his presidency, each captioned ‘Respect for women’.

In terms of his physical appearance, however, Trump’s apparent double chin isn’t the only thing he may be sensitive about.

The billionaire – who is listed at 191 cm making the second tallest US President in history – has also long been associated with having small hands.

During the campaign to secure the Republican nomination in 2016, rival Marco Rubio branded him a con artist and said he had small hands (a charge Trump took to mean as questioning the size of his manhood).

In the following debate, Trump protested: “He hit my hands – nobody has ever hit my hands.

“Look at those hands. Are they small hands?”

He added that if Rubio was insinuating “something else must be small… I guarantee you there’s no problem.”

Trump also seemingly referenced the size of his hands during his recent trip to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.

And the President’s hair?

According to his hairdresser, Amy Lasch, it is neither a toupee not a hair piece and Trump just “has really long hair and he combs it back straight”.