At Last!!! Something Truly Damaging About Mr. Trump!!!

I originally wrote this as a reply to Booman’s post Why Kneecapping Trump Won’t Work. I asked…

“How about skullcapping?”

Really. This one is truly strange. Middle America won’t like it. Brilliant satire, and with the added value that it appears to be true!!!

Read on:

Is Donald Trump’s Hair a $60,000 Weave? A Gawker Investigation

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has generated an unceasing torrent of press attention that some estimate to be worth roughly $2 billion. Yet the central mystery at the very core of his persona–his inscrutable hairdo–has somehow, impossibly, remained unsolved. Until, perhaps, now.

A tipster who claimed knowledge of Trump’s hair recently came to Gawker with a potential solution to the enigma: Trump’s hair is not his own, costs tens of thousands of dollars for installation and upkeep, and comes from a man as mysterious as Trump is bombastic.

This solution that Trump, our tipster says, sought for his hair woes is a little-known, patented hair restoration treatment called a “microcylinder intervention.” It’s only performed by one clinic that we know of–Ivari International–where our source once sought treatment, and where he says he learned of Trump’s apparent patronage. What’s more, Ivari’s New York location was inside Trump Tower–on the private floor reserved for Donald Trump’s own office.

—snip—

It goes on. Worth reading in its entirety for the sheer strangeness of it. A thoroughly researched piece about sheer, self-loving idiocy. I laughed my ass off. This kind of mockery will work, I think. It s kinda like that thing with John Edwards preening in front of a mirror while the soundtrack plays “I Feel Pretty.”

That was the true beginning of the end for John Boy.

Real ‘Muricans like the Trump followers ain’t gonna elect no dude who goes this far…and this expensive…to end up looking like a latter day Gorgeous George. (Start watching at about 1:03 in.)

It just ain’t…manly…if y’know what I mean.

Delightful.

I said a year ago regarding Trump that you cannot laugh a clown offstage.

Maybe I was wrong. If the clown appears to take himself too seriously? Maybe I was wrong.

Kudos to Ms. Feinberg. Brilliant…and hurtful…comedy.

Later…

4 Comments

Arthur Gilroy on June 30, 2016 at 3:46 pm

with a secret Trump Tower “office” on Trump’s floor thrown in!!!???

Preposterous!!!

Beautifully so.

Arthur Gilroy on June 30, 2016 at 4:07 pm

Now Peter Thiel’s Lawyer Wants to Silence Reporting on Trump’s Hair

Pictured: Peter Thiel, Donald Trump, and Charles Harder.

One day after the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel revealed his clandestine legal attack on Gawker Media to the New York Times, Gawker reporter Ashley Feinberg published a lengthy investigation that sought to solve the enduring mystery of Donald Trump’s infamous mane, which she described as a “cotton candy hairspray labyrinth.”

Thiel has portrayed Gawker as a force for evil, but Feinberg’s article–which drew potential connections between Trump and the work of a $60,000-a-pop hair-extension company called Ivari International–still went over rather well, drawing praise from staffers at the Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic; and at least three winners of the Pulitzer Prize.

Even David Simon, the award-winning reporter-turned-screenwriter and frequent critic of Gawker, offered his accolades, arguing that if the U.S. press had investigated the Bush Administration’s claims about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction with the same energy, the Iraq War might have been avoided.

But if you were under the impression that praise-worthy journalism is somehow inoculated against campaigns like Thiel’s, you’d be mistaken. Last week, Thiel’s lawyer-for-hire, Charles J. Harder, sent Gawker a letter on behalf of Ivari International’s owner and namesake, Edward Ivari, in which Harder claims that Feinberg’s story was “false and defamatory,” invaded Ivari’s privacy, intentionally inflicted emotional distress, and committed “tortious interference” with Ivari’s business relations. Harder enumerates 19 different purportedly defamatory statements–almost all of which were drawn from several publicly available lawsuits filed against Ivari.

Harder’s demands included the immediate removal of the story from Gawker, a public apology, the preservation of “all physical and electronic documents, materials and data in your possession” related to the story, and, notably, that we reveal our sources.

[We specifically demand that Gawker Media and its employees] immediately provide us with the name and all contact information for the unnamed “tipster” of the Story, so that we can serve that person with an immediate cease and desist letter to stop the spread of the false Story.

Harder goes on to threaten legal action over the story: “Your actions expose you to substantial monetary damages and punitive damages.”

These claims are, on their face, ridiculous. For instance, one of the “defamatory” statements Gawker published, according to Harder, is this: “What’s more, Ivari’s New York location is inside Trump Tower–on the private floor reserved for Donald Trump’s own office.” Harder omits, of course, the sources on which this assertion was based: Ivari’s own brochure, an archived version of his web site, and multiple advertisements Ivari placed in New York Magazine, all of which specified his New York address as being on the 25th floor of the Trump Tower in Manhattan. Furthermore, he didn’t even quote the article correctly. Here’s what Feinberg actually wrote (emphasis mine): “What’s more, Ivari’s New York location was inside Trump Tower–on the private floor reserved for Donald Trump’s own office.”

—snip—

There’s more, but why? It’s just Roy Cohn II. Throw shit until it sticks.

What disgusting people they are!!!

Even the Trumpistas will recoil from this shit.

Watch.

AkamaiGuy on June 30, 2016 at 4:23 pm

Which do you think will have more power in weakening Trump’s standing with his followers: the (allegedly) exorbitant amount spent on vanity or (counterbalancing the negative affect on him of the story) the victim (of the evil press!) mentality amongst his followers that the lawyer is potentially exploiting and enhancing?

After, Trump’s brand IS tacky excess and his schtick is persecution so why wouldn’t this story HELP him? Finally a chance for Trump’s fans to say “See, the media won’t focus on his policies but on his looks! BAD media!”
- Arthur Gilroy on June 30, 2016 at 4:43 pm
  
  I think that he stepped over the Manson-Nixon Line on this one. Just a gut feeling. He needs the undecideds to win. They’re not his fanboys and fangirls, they’re people scuffling to get by and working hard to do so.
  
  And…I mean, really!!! This is just so ugly!!!
  
  AG

Arthur Gilroy on June 30, 2016 at 3:46 pm

with a secret Trump Tower “office” on Trump’s floor thrown in!!!???

Preposterous!!!

Beautifully so.

AG
Arthur Gilroy on June 30, 2016 at 4:07 pm

Now Peter Thiel’s Lawyer Wants to Silence Reporting on Trump’s Hair

Pictured: Peter Thiel, Donald Trump, and Charles Harder.

One day after the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel revealed his clandestine legal attack on Gawker Media to the New York Times, Gawker reporter Ashley Feinberg published a lengthy investigation that sought to solve the enduring mystery of Donald Trump’s infamous mane, which she described as a “cotton candy hairspray labyrinth.”

Thiel has portrayed Gawker as a force for evil, but Feinberg’s article–which drew potential connections between Trump and the work of a $60,000-a-pop hair-extension company called Ivari International–still went over rather well, drawing praise from staffers at the Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic; and at least three winners of the Pulitzer Prize.

Even David Simon, the award-winning reporter-turned-screenwriter and frequent critic of Gawker, offered his accolades, arguing that if the U.S. press had investigated the Bush Administration’s claims about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction with the same energy, the Iraq War might have been avoided.

But if you were under the impression that praise-worthy journalism is somehow inoculated against campaigns like Thiel’s, you’d be mistaken. Last week, Thiel’s lawyer-for-hire, Charles J. Harder, sent Gawker a letter on behalf of Ivari International’s owner and namesake, Edward Ivari, in which Harder claims that Feinberg’s story was “false and defamatory,” invaded Ivari’s privacy, intentionally inflicted emotional distress, and committed “tortious interference” with Ivari’s business relations. Harder enumerates 19 different purportedly defamatory statements–almost all of which were drawn from several publicly available lawsuits filed against Ivari.

Harder’s demands included the immediate removal of the story from Gawker, a public apology, the preservation of “all physical and electronic documents, materials and data in your possession” related to the story, and, notably, that we reveal our sources.

[We specifically demand that Gawker Media and its employees] immediately provide us with the name and all contact information for the unnamed “tipster” of the Story, so that we can serve that person with an immediate cease and desist letter to stop the spread of the false Story.

Harder goes on to threaten legal action over the story: “Your actions expose you to substantial monetary damages and punitive damages.”

These claims are, on their face, ridiculous. For instance, one of the “defamatory” statements Gawker published, according to Harder, is this: “What’s more, Ivari’s New York location is inside Trump Tower–on the private floor reserved for Donald Trump’s own office.” Harder omits, of course, the sources on which this assertion was based: Ivari’s own brochure, an archived version of his web site, and multiple advertisements Ivari placed in New York Magazine, all of which specified his New York address as being on the 25th floor of the Trump Tower in Manhattan. Furthermore, he didn’t even quote the article correctly. Here’s what Feinberg actually wrote (emphasis mine): “What’s more, Ivari’s New York location was inside Trump Tower–on the private floor reserved for Donald Trump’s own office.”

—snip—

There’s more, but why? It’s just Roy Cohn II. Throw shit until it sticks.

What disgusting people they are!!!

Even the Trumpistas will recoil from this shit.

Watch.

AG
- AkamaiGuy on June 30, 2016 at 4:23 pm
  
  Which do you think will have more power in weakening Trump’s standing with his followers: the (allegedly) exorbitant amount spent on vanity or (counterbalancing the negative affect on him of the story) the victim (of the evil press!) mentality amongst his followers that the lawyer is potentially exploiting and enhancing?
  
  After, Trump’s brand IS tacky excess and his schtick is persecution so why wouldn’t this story HELP him? Finally a chance for Trump’s fans to say “See, the media won’t focus on his policies but on his looks! BAD media!”
  - Arthur Gilroy on June 30, 2016 at 4:43 pm
    
    I think that he stepped over the Manson-Nixon Line on this one. Just a gut feeling. He needs the undecideds to win. They’re not his fanboys and fangirls, they’re people scuffling to get by and working hard to do so.
    
    And…I mean, really!!! This is just so ugly!!!
    
    AG

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