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Donald Trump’s Longtime

artappraiser — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 02:24:05 +0000

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Donald Trump’s Longtime Doctor Says President Takes Hair-Growth Drug

By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D @ NYTimes, .FEB. 1, 2017

WASHINGTON — President Trump takes medication for three ailments, including a prostate-related drug to promote hair growth, Mr. Trump’s longtime physician, Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, said in a series of recent interviews.

The other drugs are antibiotics to control rosacea, a common skin problem, and a statin for elevated blood cholesterol and lipids.

Dr. Bornstein, who spoke by telephone in four interviews over the past month, also said that Mr. Trump takes a daily baby aspirin to reduce the risk of a heart attack. Over all, he pronounced Mr. Trump healthy and his medical care “as exactly up to date.”

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The disclosure that Mr. Trump uses a prostate-related drug to maintain growth of his scalp hair, which has not been publicly known, appears to solve a riddle of why Mr. Trump has a very low level of prostate specific antigen, or PSA, a marker for prostate cancer. Mr. Trump takes a small dose of the drug, finasteride, which lowers PSA levels. Finasteride is marketed as Propecia to treat male-pattern baldness.

Dr. Bornstein said he also took finasteride and credited it for helping maintain his own shoulder-length hair and Mr. Trump’s hair. “He has all his hair,” Dr. Bornstein said. “I have all my hair.”

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At times in the interviews, Dr. Bornstein was moody, ranging from saying that Mr. Trump’s health “is none of your business” to later volunteering facts. He also meandered, referring to his longtime study of Italian and stories about medical schools floating cadavers to an island off the waters of New York. He said he liked the attention he got from friends now that he was publicly known as Mr. Trump’s doctor but disliked “the fun made of me” by the news media and strangers who have thrown objects at his office window and who have yelled at him on Park Avenue.

Dr. Bornstein’s first brush with the public was in December 2015, when he released a hyperbolic four-paragraph letter about Mr. Trump’s health.

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Nothing much new in Trump's

artappraiser — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 00:55:35 +0000

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Nothing much new in Trump's behavior, same troll as he always was:

‘Up Is Down’: Trump’s Unreality Show Echoes His Business Past by David Barstow @ NYT, Jan. 28

[....] for students of Mr. Trump’s long business career, there was much about President Trump’s truth-mangling ways that was familiar: the mystifying false statements about seemingly trivial details, the rewriting of history to airbrush unwanted facts, the branding as liars those who point out his untruths, the deft conversion of demonstrably false claims into a semantic mush of unverifiable “beliefs.”

Mr. Trump’s falsehoods have long been viewed as a reflexive extension of his vanity, or as his method of compensating for deep-seated insecurities. But throughout his business career, Mr. Trump’s most noteworthy deceptions often did double duty, serving not just his ego but also important strategic goals. Mr. Trump’s habitually inflated claims about his wealth, for example, fed his self-proclaimed image of a business genius even as they attracted lucrative licensing deals built around the Trump brand.

Nearly 30 years ago, in his best-selling book “The Art of the Deal,” Mr. Trump memorably extolled the advantages of “truthful hyperbole,” which he described as “an innocent form of exaggeration — and a very effective form of promotion [.....]

I don't think it's "mean"

barefooted — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:20:13 +0000

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I don't think it's "mean" that he's going for; he seems to believe that he needs to look "serious and strong" in order to convince his followers (aka himself) that he will not just lead, but rule. It's the strongman thing. I find quite disturbing the habit that he's adopted to hold his fists in the air - and pumping them. But with the palm out, like a happy wave that became an angry and closed salute.

one art photographer's

artappraiser — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:44:17 +0000

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one art photographer's alternate reality on topic (take that, Kellyanne), 6-shot slideshow just for fun:

http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/photos/2016/09/alison-jackson-donald-trump

I like the second photo best. Her stuff is better than a lot more serious anti-Trump art I've seen, and I've seen a ton with the mail lists I'm on. Probably because I think those with comedy in mind can do the most damage. Precisely because: he and most of his minions have zero sense of humor.

I know, saw it the other day

artappraiser — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:33:04 +0000

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I know, saw it the other day.Myself, I find it quite disturbing for a complicated reason. I think it means he thinks his fans want him to look mean like his "you're fired" character. I doubt even most of them want that.