Why we shouldn’t mock Trump’s hair loss
Oh dear. Now we know the terrible truth about donald Trump’s hair. Boarding air Force One in a high wind, the full extent of his bald patch was revealed to the world. One naughty gust and pouf! The carefully cultivated secret of the U.S. President’s odd bouffant was at last revealed. We saw a white ruff of tonsorial bad luck, framing a pink egg of scalp.
all of a sudden, Trump didn’t seem like the most powerful man in the world: he looked like a tattered old owl that had had a fight with a weasel over a vole. he looked vulnerable and peeled, his supreme insecurity on global display.
Of course, everyone had a good laugh at his expense. The footage was watched millions of times on the internet. I couldn’t stop looking at it myself, over and over again. hair, no hair. hair, no hair. Scream.
Yet, while there is no shortage of reasons to be critical about Trump, is it right to mock him over his thinning thatch? Going bald is no laughing matter for men, and finding the presidential hair loss endlessly amusing is beginning to look obsessive of us — perhaps almost cruel.
The subject even came up in Piers Morgan’s interview with the President, held in davos last month.
‘People find it hard to believe it’s my hair, but it is. It’s hanging in, barely, it’s hanging in,’ said Trump valiantly.
Yet the double standards being applied here are gasping. It’s impossible to imagine any female world leader being quizzed, ridiculed and laughed at over any unfortunate aspect of her physical appearance. No doubt that would be a hate crime.
Michael Wolff’s tell-all book Fire and Fury claims to have exposed the secret of Trump’s hairdo. daughter Ivanka is said to have told friends that it is the result of an extremely painful scalp reduction surgery, which involved Trump’s bald spot being cut from his head, with the remaining skin on his scalp pulled tight, drawstring fashion.
The hole was then closed and stitched together — I think I am going to faint — before the maribou wisps of his remaining hair were combed over this grand canyon of presidential skull.
ShOUld we be worried that what is happening on top of Trump’s head is having an effect on what is going on inside it? While he likes to portray himself as a confident, tough, take-charge kind of bigshot guy, his painstaking camouflage reveals him to be someone who is deeply unhappy about his appearance.
The President’s recent medical report revealed that he is taking an anti-balding drug called finasteride, with potential side-effects that include impotence and breast growth.
he must know this, but he takes it anyway. and that is frightening.
My point is that hair loss can cause distress in men, and perhaps society should be a little more sympathetic towards their plight. Certainly, I know that I could be a little more thoughtful about it.
Many men, just like Trump, are taunted for being vain if they try to disguise their baldness — and ridiculed for looking old and unattractive if they don’t.
Male baldness is linked to a loss of virility and masculinity in the same way that menopause is often associated with a loss of femininity and sexuality in women. Yet, while women have every symptom taken seriously and a sisterly support group to get them through each hot flush, men must just get on with it.
a great number of men still see discussions of intimate problems as a ‘violation’ of their masculinity and their privacy. No wonder many men are still dying of prostate cancer because they’re too embarrassed to visit a doctor.
The spectacle of Trump and his infamous combover becoming a subject of international hilarity can only encourage feelings that no one will take them or their worries seriously.
Of course, perhaps Trumpy’s problem is that no one takes him more seriously than himself — but hair loss can result in a variety of psychological and emotional problems. even in presidents.
Psychiatrists point to baldness causing a sense of powerlessness and impotence and a feeling of being out of control. Not a good frame of mind to be in when you are within lunging reach of the nuclear button.
I am far from being a Trump fan. Yet not liking someone’s politics does not entitle detractors to a free pass to mock them about their personal appearance.
Yes, I know that Trump ridiculed a disabled reporter. I know he can be an ocean-going creep when it comes to his treatment of women and minorities.
But I think the world would be a better place if we didn’t stoop to his level, and rose above the hairline instead. am I right? I am right.