if you open your window you can hear in the distance the faint thrum of the t-shirts going into the screen printers

Agreed, he doesn’t want to smile as if saying “don’t worry guys, I’ll be fine!” because that only admits that he is not in charge and has to hope for the best outcome. He wants his supporters to directly attack the process and not passively hope.

If you hate his guts you see a psychopath seething with anger, if you kind of like the guy you see a defiant underdog.

What nobody sees is the humiliated powerless underclass criminal that libs were hoping to see. The trump campaign are going to make this picture into an icon for their undeserved victim complexes.