Donald Trump, 71, is the subject of an explosive new book, Fire and Fury, which claims to have had access to a number of inside sources from his presidency.
One of the secrets the author Michael Wolff claims to reveal is that of the President’s hair.
And the tricks he employs to keep his blonde locks in top condition have been shared by an unlikely source – Ivanka Trump.
Ivanka, 36, has become increasingly important in Trump’s administration, finally relocating to Washington from New York in the new year.
Wolff writes that Ivanka has spoken about her father’s hair to friends.
He said: “She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate – a contained island after scalp-reduction surgery – surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and security by a stiffening spray.”
As well as the style, Wolff commented on the colour of Donald’s hair. He continued: “The color, she would point out in comical effect, was from a product called Just for Men – the longer it was left on, the darker it got.
“Impatience resulted in Trump’s orange-blond hair color.” Just for Men is a dye usually used to hide grey hair.
Wolff’s claim Trump had scalp-reduction surgery is backed up by legal documents from a difficult time in the now-President’s life.
According to 1993 book ‘Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump’, author Harry Hurt III described an incident between Trump and his former wife Ivana.
His book referenced a deposition given by Ivana from the couple’s 1990 divorce in which she made the claim that her husband raped her while he was in pain from a scalp reduction surgery.
She has since gone on to clarify that the sexual incident she had with her husband should not be considered rape either in the “literal or criminal sense”.
The passage was then found by HuffPost in February 2017 who declared the mystery behind Donald’s hair solved.
Scalp reduction surgery decreases the size of a man’s bald spot on the top of his head, minimising the loss to a smaller region. Trump, the 1993 book said, had “nagging headaches caused by the shrinking of the scalp, and the pain of the initial incision.”
For his own part, Donald Trump has publicly argued his hair is his own, after speculation from news sites including the now-defunct Gawker, who said it was a $ 60,000 hair piece.
The White House has hit back at Wolff’s book, with White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying the book is “filled with false and misleading accounts from individuals who have no access or influence with the White House.”
Referring to the sources who spoke to Wolff, she continued: “Participating in a book that can only be described as trashy tabloid fiction exposes their sad desperate attempts at relevancy.”
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