“Smile” wide for the cameras, Doggie...I mean, Donnie... — Putin, probably

^ This pic was from the "fire and fury" threat to North Korea.

I have no idea where people see charisma in Trump. His expressions, his posture, his body language - they betray discomfort and fear coupled with the phoniest of lame attempts at concealing them which only manage to backfire and highlight them.

Standing next to Putin makes it even more glaring, as the latter is a master at concealment, which while having an artificial air is done in a way that looks smug, icy, calculating, a twinkle that signals danger lurks behind his eyes.
So he manages to work his artificiality into an advantage over potential opponents, and of course, subserviant spineless sycophants like Trump.

Crossed arms in a defensive posture and a hallmark of insecurity. It’s no wonder he kowtows to dictators like Putin, Edrogan, Jinping, Kim Jong Un, and MBS. Hell, he was licking James Mattis’ sack until Mattis told him he was clown shoes for backing out of Syria and bailing on the Kurds.

Exactly why I posted that one.
Found it the other day while looking up that quote.

He kowtows to them justifying it to himself that he aspires to be like them, but the reality is that it is just his need to be dominated by such, and in this way latching on to what he perceives as their power, somehow sharing in it by prostrating himself to it.

You see the same weird psychosis with his base, born followers who think being in the shadow of authority of the populist sort somehow makes them a part of it, as opposed to it shunting them into the insignificant role of a lowly proxy they can't help but always be.