Trump: $ 70,000 a year to maintain his haircut
A sum revealed by the "New York Times", which analyzed the taxes of the American president, for whom his hairstyle is "one of his great assets".
Trump paid just $ 750 in federal taxes in 2016 and 2017, but isn't shy about devouring $ 70,000 to maintain his infamous faded blonde hair. This is one of the crisp revelations of the New York Times, which peeled the taxes that the American president would have declared the year of his election in 2016. In a lengthy investigation published this weekend, which Trump immediately dismantled in Calling it a "bogus", the daily reveals how the businessman used tax tricks to reduce his taxes ...
We learn that he deducted at the time the equivalent of 60,000 euros per year for the maintenance of his haircut when he presented the program The Apprentice, the reality TV show that made popular on the small screen. As for her daughter Ivanka, now special advisor, she benefited from a credit of more than 95,000 dollars (approximately 80,000 euros) for hair and make-up, expenses paid by her father's companies, then also deducted by tax combinations. We do not know if these sums are still relevant, but we can assume that Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka, now more than ever on the front of the media scene, have not reduced the sails, on the contrary ...
Hide baldness
Donald Trump has always been fixated on his fleece, which he considers "one of his great assets". It must be said that the subject has always unleashed criticism and jeers, some hairdressers of American stars evoking a cut "between an otter tail and an ear of corn in bloom", not to mention the changing colors, from chick yellow to blond which sometimes turns au rouge… The president replied by making his hair his pride and his totem: "My hair is perhaps not very beautiful, but it is mine", he said one day on Channel 4, denying wear a wig.
If he puts so much ardor - and money - to take care of his hair, it is because of a baldness that he tries by all means to hide, if we believe the revelations of his daughter Ivanka, reported in the book Fire and Fury: “A bald head top, surrounded by a circle of hair in front and on the sides, which is slicked back to cover the top and secured with a strong hairspray. As for the changing colors of the dye, they could be explained by the impatience of Trump, who would not respect the prescribed exposure time ...
If Donald Trump's $ 70,000 hairstyle may be shocking, let us remember that our French presidents have not always shown moderation in their own look. Thus, the makeup artist of Nicolas Sarkozy touched up to 8,000 euros per month, the hairdresser of François Hollande was paid nearly 10,000 euros monthly and the Macron couple, more thrifty, pays 5,200 euros per month for a makeup-hairstyle package negotiated, ie a little over 60,000 euros per year.
