Menswear expert gives blunt critique of Trump’s shoulder pads in photo of interview with Musk

Derek Guy, also known as “the menswear guy” on X, tore intoDonald Trump’s choice of shoulder pads during his interview with Elon Musk.

Guy, a popular menswear writer, has established a large platform for himself through fashion critiques and in-depth analyses. On Monday night he reacted aftera photo came out of Trump hunched over his phone with bunched-up shoulder pads as he spoke with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO.

Guy was quick to point out that, while shoulder pads can make someone look more powerful and authoritative, they can lose their charm with poor posture.

“The downside of a heavily padded, extended shoulder is that artifice is revealed when you sit like this,” Guy wrote on Monday night.

“Not much you can do about this. Padded coats look great when you’re standing still, but they can look artificial when you move or sit when your shoulders pitched forward,” he continued.

The fashion writer offered his own advice to the former president to avoid future shoulder pad faux pas.

“To me, Trump would benefit from a softer shoulder, partly because his natural shoulders are narrow but square,” he wrote. “The more padding you add to this, the squarer the shoulder line. [In my opinion], heavy padding is best for people with very sloped shoulders, not square ones.”

Guy also offered his followers a history lesson, writing that Trump uses shoulder pads to achieve the “platonic male silhouette” he “doesn’t naturally have.”

The shoulder pads weren’t the only thing that went awry during last night’s interview.

The interview was delayed 40 minutes due to technical issues with X, which Musk blamed on a denial-of-service attack against the platform.

The billionaires spent the first thirty minutes of the interview discussing the