Hat flick trump7/14/2023 ![]() ![]() He’s very rigorous and vigorous and independent and that’s what you want here and that’s what’s needed. ![]() It is Smith who investigated the Mar-a-Lago documents case.Ĭarl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia, says: “I don’t think he’s an overreaching prosecutor. The attorney general, Merrick Garland, has also kept them at arm’s length by appointing Jack Smith as special counsel. Joe Biden tries to avoid commenting on Trump’s myriad legal troubles. The White House knows it cannot afford to put a foot wrong. Photograph: Giorgio Viera/AFP/Getty Images It’s Trump’s latest stress test for American democracy: can the state hold a former president accountable and apply the rule of law? There was a near miss for Richard Nixon, who could have faced federal charges over Watergate but was pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford.Ī police car is parked outside the Mar-a-Lago Club, home of former president Donald Trump earlier this year. All have been prosecuted and convicted of corruption in the past 15 years. Second, Trump could soon join a notorious club that includes Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac of France and Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak of South Korea. Thursday night’s action by the justice department was genuinely monumental.įirst, it raises the question: what was Trump doing with government secrets? It was reported last month that prosecutors obtained an audio recording in which Trump talks about holding on to a classified Pentagon document related to a potential attack on Iran. Trump has an answer, a retort, an excuse for everything-everything, it seems, but his hair.It is often tempting to hype every Trump drama out of proportion and then lose sight of when something genuinely monumental has happened. That Trump has yet to comment on the windy tarmac video-when he opines on everything up to and including Celebrity Apprentice ratings-or even spin it into the most compelling ad ever to always have a MAGA hat on hand, speaks volumes about the sensitivity of the issue. He evidently saves that bile for other people’s physical appearances: for “Liddle” (sic) Bob Corker (who is 5-foot-7) for Mika Brzezinski, “bleeding badly from a facelift” for Carly Fiorina’s face and Rosie O’Donnell’s body. The characteristic exclamation points, the all-caps declarations, and never-say-die defenses we’ve come to expect of Trump are conspicuously absent when it comes to his hair. Is this the same man who looks at a patchy photo of the National Mall on his Inauguration Day and tells you he inspired blockbuster crowds the very guy who decries the Russia investigation as “fake news” even as it indicts his former staffers for criminal offenses? (Please make the unwelcome mental images stop.) But he offers far less passionate defenses for his hair, including, in 2013, that it “may not be perfect, but it’s mine.” Trump has further noted that he’s no Rita Hazan, disclosing in his book Trump: How to Get Rich that he colors his hair-albeit not well: “Somehow the color never looks great, but what the hell, I just don’t like gray hair.” And, tellingly, it’s the rare thing he generally declines to beat his chest and brag about-I’m sorry to remind you he once, on the Republican debate stage, not-at-all-subtly implied that neither his hands, nor his penis, are small. He may be a “stable genius” in his own mind, but his hair is the one thing he can’t control-and one of the few things he can’t deny. (Really, I’d rather not.) It has reopened the eternal mystery of “what even is Trump’s hair?” Is it real? Is it a Hair Club transplant? Who is responsible for the way it swirls around his head like a cone of fresh cotton candy?īut perhaps most of all, Trump’s follicle malfunction revealed that his hair truly is his Achilles heel, a soft spot in his super-macho, megalomaniacal m.o. “Imagine this hair soaking wet,” my sardonic brother texted me. The footage-now irreversibly seared into millions of brains-has sparked morbid fascination across the Internet. The video, as everyone knows by now, shows President Trump boarding Air Force One while the whipping Washington wind blows a flap of his flaxen hair away from his scalp to reveal a significant bald patch at the back of his head. It was the hair flip seen ‘round the world-and not in the Pantene commercial, Cher from Clueless, or Willow Smith kind of way. ![]()
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