Will Donald Trump’s hair outlast the US Constitution?
On the hair-raising possibility of a third Trump term.
Will Donald Trump’s hair outlast the US Constitution? It’s a cheap question, I grant you, but it’s not meant to be one of those provocative statements Rod Liddle teaches us to make at the beginning of a column. (See: Ken Dodd’s Diddy Men taught me to appreciate Colombian drug cartels).
The simple reality is that Donald Trump’s lifelong fight against male pattern baldness seems to be reaching its natural and shiny end. Even The Drudge Report noted it this past week, posting a mocked-up photo of The Donald with a fully Savalas, along with the “headline” (no pun intended) “Trump Letting It Go Bald… Will He Go All the Way?”
Matt Drudge famously fell out with Trump midway through his first term, so no doubt much of “the story” (it linked to no article and was just a caption and photo) is personal, but if you’ve been watching Trump for long enough (and, certainly, if you’ve been watching closely enough), you might have found yourself aware that Trump’s hair appears to be thinning at an accelerated rate. You, too, might have even pondered one of the great imponderables of modern hair technology: what happens next? What happens when the man who has tried every hair treatment in human history reaches the point where science offers no more solutions?