Playboy interview from 2004. The Donald explains how his $70,000 hairstyle is completed. Part 1. 
Playboy interview from 2004. The Donald explains how his $70,000 hairstyle is completed. Part 2.
I also remember a TV interview where Donald and Melania confirmed that she did his hair.
Maybe someone else can find this.
Maybe someone else can find this.
📘 Also on Trump's hair, excerpt from Michael Cohen's "Disloyal, a Memoir." This occurred in June 2013.
Checking into the Vegas Trump Tower, I was summoned up to his suite to discuss the day's events.
Checking into the Vegas Trump Tower, I was summoned up to his suite to discuss the day's events.
📘 Cohen book (cont'd)
Trump was in his underwear, white Hanes briefs, and a white short-sleeve undershirt, watching cable news on television. He barely seemed to register that it was unusual for a grown man to be in a state of undress in front of an employee, but there it was.
Trump was in his underwear, white Hanes briefs, and a white short-sleeve undershirt, watching cable news on television. He barely seemed to register that it was unusual for a grown man to be in a state of undress in front of an employee, but there it was.
📘 Cohen book (cont'd)
On this occasion, Trump was fresh from the shower and he hadn't done his hair yet, as it was still air-drying. When his hair wasn't done, his strands of dyed-golden hair reached below his shoulders along the right side of his head and on his back,...
On this occasion, Trump was fresh from the shower and he hadn't done his hair yet, as it was still air-drying. When his hair wasn't done, his strands of dyed-golden hair reached below his shoulders along the right side of his head and on his back,...
📘 Cohen book (cont'd)
...like a balding Allman brother or strung out old '60s hippie.
I called his plane Hair Force One, for good reason. Trump doesn't have a simple combover, as it would appear.
...like a balding Allman brother or strung out old '60s hippie.
I called his plane Hair Force One, for good reason. Trump doesn't have a simple combover, as it would appear.
📘 Cohen book (cont'd)
The operation was much more involved than a simple throw-over of what was left of his hair: the three-step procedure required a flop up of the hair from the back of his head, followed by the flip of the resulting overhang on his face back on his pate,...
The operation was much more involved than a simple throw-over of what was left of his hair: the three-step procedure required a flop up of the hair from the back of his head, followed by the flip of the resulting overhang on his face back on his pate,...
📘 Cohen book (cont'd)
...and then the flap of his combover on the right side, providing three layers of thinly disguised balding-male insecurity. The concoction was held in place by a fog of TREsemme TRES Two, not a high-end salon product.
...and then the flap of his combover on the right side, providing three layers of thinly disguised balding-male insecurity. The concoction was held in place by a fog of TREsemme TRES Two, not a high-end salon product.
📘 Cohen book (cont'd)
Flip, flop, flap, and there was the most famous combover in the world.
Flip, flop, flap, and there was the most famous combover in the world.
📘 Cohen book (cont'd)
The real reason for the extravagant and obvious overcompensation for his baldness was vanity, and the desire to appear younger and more vigorous than he was.
The real reason for the extravagant and obvious overcompensation for his baldness was vanity, and the desire to appear younger and more vigorous than he was.
📘 Cohen book (cont'd)
But there was another unknown reason: he was hiding unsightly scars on his scalp from a failed hair-implant operation in the 1980s.
But there was another unknown reason: he was hiding unsightly scars on his scalp from a failed hair-implant operation in the 1980s.
📘 Cohen (cont'd)
That was the disfiguring operation that resulted in his furious "emotional rape" of his first wife Ivana, as she documented in a lawsuit in the early '90s; like Samson, Trump believed his virility & image were harmed if he was seen to be losing his hair,...
That was the disfiguring operation that resulted in his furious "emotional rape" of his first wife Ivana, as she documented in a lawsuit in the early '90s; like Samson, Trump believed his virility & image were harmed if he was seen to be losing his hair,...
📘 Cohen book (cont'd)
...or, even worse, injuring himself in an attempt to disguise male-pattern balding.
...or, even worse, injuring himself in an attempt to disguise male-pattern balding.
📘 Cohen book (cont'd)
If Trump let strangers see the red sores on his scalp, he would appear to be vulnerable, even pitiable, not the unstoppable sex-god alpha-male billionaire he wanted to present to the world—and himself.
End of excerpt.
If Trump let strangers see the red sores on his scalp, he would appear to be vulnerable, even pitiable, not the unstoppable sex-god alpha-male billionaire he wanted to present to the world—and himself.
End of excerpt.
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