Donald Trump’s Body Language in Second Debate: Why did he stand behind his chair? Was that an alternate personality, there to back him up?

At the beginning of the debate, Trump stood behind his chair, with his hands on the top of the back of the chair. It was a very unusual thing to do.

My first thought was that he was using the chair as a shield to protect himself against the expected onslaught of criticism for his recent boasting-sexual-predator video.

But cowering behind a chair is not typical body language for Donald Trump, whose behavior is usually aggressive, as was seen later in the debate, when it appeared to some that he was “stalking” Hillary Clinton around the stage.

So why was Trump standing behind his chair?

It was as if the chair was where his regular self was sitting, while an alternate personality was standing behind him, ready to back him up.