This week, a new book came out from author Michael Wolff detailing life inside Trump world. Called Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, the book has sparked an intense response from the Trump team, with the president having literally quipped that his former campaign executive Steve Bannon, whose disparaging comments are included in the book, had “lost his mind.”
Among the incendiary contents of the book is a comment from Bannon that the infamous 2016 meeting Trump Jr. had with a Kremlin connected lawyer and other top Trump officials and Russian operatives was “treasonous.”
Unsurprisingly, these comments, and others recorded in the book, have earned Bannon wide scorn from within Trump world. Even the billionaire Mercers have sought to distance themselves from Bannon.
Wolff, for his part, has stood by his claim that he relayed everything exactly as he heard it.
Incendiary comments from Bannon aren’t where the noteworthy contents of Wolff’s book end. Rather, there is also a tidbit revealing the alleged origin of Donald Trump’s infamous hairstyle.
According to Wolff, Ivanka Trump, who serves as an unpaid adviser to her father, makes fun of the president’s hairstyle.
In the book, speaking of Ivanka, Wolff wrote:
‘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 secured by a stiffening spray.’
Wolff has enjoyed widespread access to the Trump team in the months leading up to his book’s publication, so it’s not as though he automatically has no basis for the claims that he’s making here. However, Ivanka Trump is obviously never going to come out and admit to this, so all we are left with are Wolff’s claims.
He goes onto claim that Ivanka also has information about the hair dye that her father uses, writing:
‘The color, she would point out to 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.’
It’s not as though we need a widely contested book to figure out that Donald Trump is a very impatient person. He is, concurrent to that, impulsive, more interested in firing off tweets than in sitting through lengthy meetings about an important subject.
Foreign policy is not something rightfully conducted via social media, yet here we are anyway, with the president routinely firing off angry tweets pushing for items like military engagement with North Korea via Twitter.
Thus, although it’s obviously a sensationalist piece of information, it’s not that far fetched to suggest that the president is the same sort of impatient, volatile individual in his private life as he is in his public life.
The president has tried to discredit the book but he’s not going to be able to erase its effects.
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