The Trump Presidency (Act V - The One Where Everybody Dies)

[Bob001]

It either looks faked to me and/or there are significant compression effects

Some pretty responsible outlets have picked up the story:
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-bald-spot-revealed-video-hair-transplant-2018-2
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/07/donald-trump-hair-wind
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...llusion-came-undone-and-we-all-missed-it.html

It's probably a lot harder to doctor a video than a still picture.

 

[Mycroft]

My point is that what is unamerican is completely up to each individual and is not a falsifiable claim.

The fundamental rights to your own beliefs, to disagree with your elected leaders and to express those beliefs and disagreement are fundamental American principles and principles of any democratic society.

Individuals who grouse about it and grumble that the other side is "treasonous" or "unpatriotic" are supposed to be tolerated as ignorant outliers, those attitudes should be beneath the POTUS.

 

[carlosy]

I recently saw some astounding examples of exactly that.

Let me see if I can find a link.

Probably Super Resolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution_imaging

But it is not as effective as in Movies. And it only works if you have several different pictures of the same object, afaik.

 

[alfaniner]

People shaming Trump's looks. Personally, I would never make fun of him for being bald and fat.

If it were just that, probably few people would mention it. It's the fact of his trying to disguise his baldness and the very strange ice cream swirl way he does it.

 

[Segnosaur]

People shaming Trump's looks. Personally, I would never make fun of him for being bald and fat.

If it were just that, probably few people would mention it. It's the fact of his trying to disguise his baldness and the very strange ice cream swirl way he does it.

Plus its also the fact that Trump himself is a very petty individual... (his nick-names he uses on Twitter, his Birther nonsense, his comments about various women and their weights, etc.)

If Trump were a rational and respectful person, many of us would probably ignore "hair-gate". But if Trump is going to be petty and vindictive, many of us don't see a problem turning the tables and pointing out Trump's petty flaws.

 

[Stacko]

It's jarring seeing the length the White House went to keep Porter on staff.

White House says Porter's background investigation was not completed. Important to note that if a background check is formally completed -- and denied -- it sticks with you indefinitely. That is one reason, officials familiar with this type of thing say, it was never finished.​

 

[Bob001]

There's a White House news conference in progress now, as there is most weekday afternoons. One guy is always called on: he's an older, gray-haired man with glasses who has a kind of foghorn voice. His questions are usually pretty straightforward; he doesn't seem to have an obvious agenda. But he's not a media star. His first name is John. Who is he and who does he work for?

 

[TheL8Elvis]

There's a White House news conference in progress now, as there is most weekday afternoons. One guy is always called on: he's an older, gray-haired man with glasses who has a kind of foghorn voice. His questions are usually pretty straightforward; he doesn't seem to have an obvious agenda. But he's not a media star. His first name is John. Who is he and who does he work for?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roberts_(journalist)

Him ? Oh, no glasses. Prob not. Must be John Gizzi

https://www.newsmax.com/insiders/john-gizzi/id-212/

ETA: I watch the white house press briefing way too much. I think I literally saw maybe a dozen under Obama.

 

[Bob001]

....
https://www.newsmax.com/insiders/john-gizzi/id-212/
...

That's the guy. Seems pretty professional despite his employer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rRNWnkGo48

 

[bruto]

And Obama.

Of course. Typical liberal bias that a Trump aide should be fired just for giving his wife a black eye when we have reason to believe that Michelle Obama was black all over.

 

[Segnosaur]

Re Trump's hair, they've just been discussing the clip on Radio 4, where they had someone who, believe it or not, is a hair expert. She says that the back of his head is bald while the sides aren't because he's had a hair transplant, where they take hair from the back of your head and implant it elsewhere, leaving you with no hair on the back for a while.

Here's a question.. has trump been out of public view for any significant length of time (before entering politics)? After all, such substantial hair modifications would probably be noticeable, and if Trump had that done, he'd probably want to lay low for a few months so that the changes were less obvious.

So it's credible that the clip hasn't been faked.

I think its likely the clip is real, but mostly because, well, people's hair patterns are not always the same, and Trump could just have unique male pattern baldness.

 

[Foolmewunz]

According to Gallup (yes I know they only get a B- rating but AFAIK they're the only ones producing weekly figures with a party split), support for President Trump has hit 90% among Republicans - his highest ever as President.

http://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ratings-donald-trump.aspx

But Gallups last poll of party affiliation (In January) had the lowest value for Republicans for several years.

Back a year ago it was 31%.
A month ago it was 22%.

Be interesting what the next one shows.

I've been touting this for a long time. Donnie Johnny had 80% approval at 31% = 25% of the voters. He now has 90% of 22% or 20% overall support.

He's driven away the sane voters. Not from Donnie Johnny Villa, but from the GOP.

 

[SezMe]

Scalp surgery.

Huh? Why would scalp surgery leave a bald spot ... unless a skin graft was necessary, I guess. Is there any evidence Cheeto Dust has had scalp surgery?

 

[blutoski]

I've been touting this for a long time. Donnie Johnny had 80% approval at 31% = 25% of the voters. He now has 90% of 22% or 20% overall support.

He's driven away the sane voters. Not from Donnie Johnny Villa, but from the GOP.

While simultaneously drawing in a tide of cray-cray.

And by 'more,' I mean muscling into the existing Tea Party caucus. So now the Tea Partiers who feathered their nests with the narrative that expertise and reasonableness are signs of treason, are worried they'll lose their primaries to torchbearing Klansmen, so I predict many will be upping their game.

 

[BobTheCoward]

Huh? Why would scalp surgery leave a bald spot ... unless a skin graft was necessary, I guess. Is there any evidence Cheeto Dust has had scalp surgery?

You just have to Google image search scalp reduction surgery to get a sense of all the ways they sew the scalp back together.

 

[a_unique_person]

It's jarring seeing the length the White House went to keep Porter on staff.

White House says Porter's background investigation was not completed. Important to note that if a background check is formally completed -- and denied -- it sticks with you indefinitely. That is one reason, officials familiar with this type of thing say, it was never finished.​

Obstruction of the security process.

 

[dudalb]

A grizzled, 20 Year in the Corps retired Marine at work said that if Kelly did cover up for Porter, Kelly had disgraced himself,dishonored the Marine Uniform he wore, and needs to go.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Huh? Why would scalp surgery leave a bald spot ... unless a skin graft was necessary, I guess. Is there any evidence Cheeto Dust has had scalp surgery?

There's evidence he's had some kind of scalp surgery for hair loss.

Maybe they took a piece from the back, put it in the front and skin grafted that area with skin from somewhere else.

Who knows? The main is pathologically vain and didn't want to be bald or get caught with a toupee.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

A grizzled, 20 Year in the Corps retired Marine at work said that if Kelly did cover up for Porter, Kelly had disgraced himself,dishonored the Marine Uniform he wore, and needs to go.

Pretty sure Ship Disgrace sailed long ago.

 

[Segnosaur]

There's evidence he's had some kind of scalp surgery for hair loss.

Maybe they took a piece from the back, put it in the front and skin grafted that area with skin from somewhere else.

Would that "somewhere else" involve a now-bald orangutan?

Any luck that Trump might end up suffering from Graft vs. Host?
https://apps.npr.org/arrested-development/joke-64.html