Not to mention that this whole thread is more respectful to Donald Trump than he ever was to Barack Obama. Somebody call a waaaaaahmbulance.
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There’s a reason why he wears that idiotic MAGA hat to all outdoor events.
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Indeed. There definitely are some here on the far left, but that doesn’t account for everybody.
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So we went from “male pattern baldness = gender dysphoria” to “male pattern baldness = cancer?”
Things have magnitudes, trying to hem the world into black and white like that doesn’t a shouldn’t work. Making fun of a lying hypocrite about their false appearance will never be the same as making fun of someone’s appearance alone, no matter how hard internet absolutists try to make the world that way.
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False equivalency; it’s a helluva drug.
45 isn’t afflicted with dysmorphia or Cancer, or any other debilitating condition.
He’s just a horrible fucking excuse for a person; and every ill that befalls him, no matter how trivial, him pleases me.
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Thank you for saving me the trouble.
Going bald and doing something about it really aren’t what’s being mocked, though, are they?
Hell, it’s not even the futile vanity of a combover being mocked! His hair is an intensely sartorial construction, a plainly-announced branding exercise. He’s not even being mocked for the botched hair transplant that led to it. He’s being mocked for the personality qualities it came to represent.
Take Joe Biden, by contrast. Or David Bowie. They both had pre-21st century insect-legs hair transplants providing artless Norwood 0 hairlines. But they generally don’t get mocked for them, because beyond vanity and professonional image they’re otherwise meaningless choices. And we have all, to our credit, become more conscious of the many reasons someone might want to maintain a youthful or feminine hairline.
But Trump? Sartorial.
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Merriam-Webster is fine with a “z” in the verb, but I am British so should know better.
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I happen to agree with the argument you’ve made, but cognitive dissonance is the lifeblood of a hypocrite, so good luck convincing anyone to be self-reflective on this topic.
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Eeesh! I thought I hated looking at him from the front. Turns out from the rear is no treat either.
Doesn’t take too much imagination to figure out how executive time is spent.
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I don’t care if Trump is fat, or if he got scalp reduction surgery or extensions or whatever to not be bald.
But he insists he has great natural hair, he insists that he’s healthy and in fantastic shape, he apparently even cheats at golf.
He’s gaslighting like he does with everything else, he’s constantly repeating an easily provable lie and that makes it fair game.
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You’re American now. Don’t apologize for spelling words correctly, citizen. If we catch you trying to stuff a ‘u’ in ‘color’, we’re gonna flog you for it.
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*Your
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No, “you’re”, the contraction of “you are”.
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Nice:
“I imagine that Beyoncé has a group of Peruvian schoolchildren whose sole purpose is to grow their hair to their ankles so that it can be lobbed off and placed in a silk pillowcase and shipped to the special cloud where Beyoncé lives so that her hairdresser can sew it together using the thread made from angels’ wings and then carefully fit it onto the singer’s well-oiled scalp.”
“I also imagine that Donald Trump has his man weave crafted from the matted hairs of a Norwegian baby goat’s underbelly, which, once cut, are sloshed together with backwash from Hungarian line cooks and then shipped to the White House inside a calf’s swollen intestines to be sewn to his dry, dusty scalp.” S. Crockett Jr. Gizmodo
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As always, context matters. If he was Don J. Trump, retired plumber from Queens with a bad combover, who got caught on video on a windy day, and became a viral YouTube hit, I’d feel bad for him.
But this is Donald Trump, the President of the United States (sadly), and an all-around arrogant, boastful, bullying asshole who’s constantly spouting obvious, self-aggrandizing lies about how awesome he is. I don’t feel one jot of sadness or sympathy when his artfully arranged artificial hairstyle is blown awry.
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*contractioun
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*Youse guys
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