Where does Donald Trump buy his wig? It's for a friend.
Donald Trump's flamboyant hair has been the subject of much speculation. It appears, according to most surveys (sometimes carried out by the most serious newspapers) that the president does not (a priori) have a wig.
In order to “debunk” this wig story, the then-candidate president even let host Jimmy Fallon ruffle his hair in a sequence that was uncomfortable to say the least during the presidential campaign.
The implant trail
The most extensive investigation to date was carried out by the Gawker site in May 2016, which claimed to have found the clinic in which Trump allegedly had his hair implanted using a “microcylinder” technique developed by a specialist in the field. Franco-Iranian Hair, which also had offices in New York and Beverly Hills. For Gawker, this hypothesis would be “the most plausible”: the diagrams presenting the technique, the portraits of patients having undergone this intervention would show that the hair implantation which results from it is in every way similar to that of Donald Trump. Not to mention that the clinic's New York offices were for years inside Trump Tower in Manhattan. On the 25th floor exactly, one floor below those of Trump.
"It seems possible, but it's only an exercise in thinking," concludes Gawker. The story, which we advise you to read, is thrilling. As Gawker points out in subsequent articles, the investigation (which makes no concrete claims) has received praise from leading American journalists. Yet in an update a month after the article's publication, a note of importance pops up: "31 days after the publication of this article, Ivari's attorney has informed Gawker that " Mr. Trump has never been a customer of Ivari. Ivari has not done his hair, in any way, at any time," adding that "Ivari has been in business for over 30 years in the States. United and pursues its activity in Paris, and has one of the most important reputations in the industry.
Gawker will later reveal that the lawyer is none other than... the one who shut down the site in the summer of 2016 following lawsuits from billionaire Peter Thiel (sworn enemy of the site, and supporter of Trump).
With Edward Ivari having offices in Paris, Checknews reached out to make sure he still refuted Gawker's hypothesis. He had "lots of things to tell [us]" and received us in his office for more than an hour, stating that Donald Trump has been "a friendly acquaintance" for more than 30 years but that, no, he has " didn't do Donald Trump's hair." Can the hair specialist steer us towards implants, wigs or natural hair? He refuses to comment, before conceding that they made “several consultations” but that his technique could not have worked on the American president anyway. White cabbage, we are back to square one.
Another investigation, which has so far not been disputed, looks back at the origin of Trump's scalp. The president would take a treatment for the prostate also promoting hair growth. It was his attending physician, Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, who explained it to the New York Times during four telephone interviews. The doctor took over from his father, who always followed Donald Trump, in 1980. He has therefore been following the American president for 27 years, and it was he who wrote Donald Trump's health bulletins during the presidential campaign.
The revelation that Mr. Trump is using a prostate drug to maintain his hair growth, which was not yet made public, seems to solve the mystery of his very low prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level, a prostate cancer marker. Mr. Trump takes a small dose of this drug, finasteride, which lowers PSA levels. Finasteride is also marketed as Propecia to treat male pattern baldness. Dr. Bornstein said he, too, was taking finasteride and blamed it on his and Mr. Trump's shoulder-length hair. "He's got all his hair," Dr. Bornstein said. "I have all my hair".
So it seems that your friend, if he's looking to have the same hair as Donald Trump, should consider taking finasteride rather than buying a wig.
