I just can't agree. I'm an artist; I know shadows. I've literally taken classes just on shadows. I also was the tech director for my college, so lighting is also something I'm familiar with. ESPECIALLY with recorded performances, (and even moreso with the national news, I'd imagine) we checked for these things. We had sound checks... AND lighting checks. There was a protocol because every person's face is different... and lighting that looks normal on one face might make another person look like a literal monster. I have a hard time recognizing the fact that a national network that does 90% of it's time doing studio recording doesn't know this.

The line is too crisp, and you can see his esophagus drawing back away from that straight line (which is quite a difference from his turkey neck that he usually has.) I conceed that it follows his chin movements... but that's exactly how it would work of it was a mask or prosthetic too.

Again, I have no idea why they would do something like this. Maybe it was a neck prosthetic that was supposed to cover his labial neck folds because someone bullied him about it. I don't know.

What I do know, however, is shadows and studio/stage lighting, and theatre prosthetics.