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Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
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The Ugly Truth About Trump's ‘Appalling' Hair: Biographer
Donald Trump's signature hairdo is all about grabbing maximum attention, author Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast this week. Wolff, author of a series of books about Trump in power, said the president viewed his hair as part of a wider strategy to stand out—including from Joe Biden on the 2024 campaign trail. 'He looks gray,' Wolff said of Biden. 'He's washed-out. You know, his hair is—what's left of it—is gray. The skin is gray. The suits are gray.' 'And Trump would point out, 'Look at him,'' he continued. ''Nobody even sees him. Everybody notices me.' Which is absolutely true. And side by side, you know, who do you notice? You notice this guy, this appalling-looking guy who is Donald Trump, and not just the relatively normal old man-looking guy that Biden was.' Wolff said Trump's entire appearance is 'by design.' 'He looks that way because he thinks that's an effective way to look,' he added. The White House did not immediately return a request for comment on the biographer's characterization. Wolff also referenced a passage from Stormy Daniels' book, where the porn star described a conversation she claims to have had with Trump about his locks during their alleged 2006 relationship. (Trump has denied any affair). In Full Disclosure, Daniels wrote that she asked Trump about his hairdo, and he admitted it was 'ridiculous.' Trump claimed that 'every celebrity stylist' had offered to fix it, but he declined, according to the 2019 book. 'Everybody talks about it,' Trump said, per Daniels. 'It's my thing. It's my trademark. Plus, if I let this person do it, it will just piss off all these other people. 'Well, why did you let him do it?' I know a lot of people who would kill to do it. The best. The best of the best.' Daniels' claims are backed up in part by an unexpected source: Seth Rogen. The actor, who appeared alongside her in Knocked Up (2007), says Daniels once told him about a bizarre exchange she claimed to have had with Trump about his hair. In the 2024 documentary Stormy, Rogen recalls Daniels saying that Trump believed his 'power' was tied to his hair, and that if he lost it, he'd lose his 'power and his stature.' 'And that's why, even though he knows it's ridiculous and... objectively not passing all the checkmarks you would want a head of hair to pass, to him that is preferable than cutting it off because he has, like, superstitions about it,' Rogen said. Wolff has been in Trump's firing line after claiming on The Daily Beast Podcast last week that the president's war on Harvard stems, at least in part, from a personal grudge over being rejected by the school. 'That story is totally FALSE, I never applied to Harvard,' Trump fumed on Truth Social Monday. 'I graduated from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. He is upset because his book about me was a total 'BOMB.' Nobody wanted it, because his 'reporting' and reputation is so bad!' Wolff's most recent book, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America, also drew an angry outburst from the president at the time of its release in February. Trump called the book a 'total FAKE JOB' and 'obviously fictitious.'
New York Post
03-06-2025
- Business
- New York Post
Trump blasts reporter's ‘totally FALSE' rumors about Harvard University grudge
President Trump has ripped 'totally FALSE' rumors that he is targeting Harvard University because he was rejected by the Ivy League school. 'Michael Wolff, a Third Rate Reporter, who is laughed at even by the scoundrels of the Fake News, recently stated that the only reason I'm 'beating up' on Harvard, is because I applied there, and didn't get in,' Trump raged in a Truth Social post about the author late Monday. 'That story is totally FALSE, I never applied to Harvard,' he maintained. Advertisement 5 President Trump speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. AP 'I graduated from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.' Wolff, who penned 'Fire & Fury' about Trump's first administration, had claimed on The Daily Beast Podcast last week that the prez held a 'grudge' against the elite school because he'd been rejected. Advertisement 'He needs an enemy,' Wolff claimed of the president. 'That's what makes the show great. The Trump show. He picks fantastic enemies, actually. And Harvard, for all it represents, fits right into the Trump show.' After being asked if he thought Trump's hatred of Harvard was odd given those close to him are all Ivy League educated, Wolff said: 'It's important not to lend too much calculation and planning to anything he does.' 'But the other thing is that, by the way, he didn't get into Harvard,' the author continued. 5 Author Michael Wolff discussing his book 'All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America' at The 92nd Street Y on Friday, March 14, 2025, in New York. CJ Rivera/Invision/AP Advertisement 5 Trump tore into author Michael Wolff, who has written several books about the president, after he recently suggested the White House's crackdown on Harvard was a personal vendetta. 'So one of the Trump things is always holding a grudge against the Ivy Leagues.' Trump, for his part, accused Wolff of going after him because of plummeting book sales. 'He is upset because his book about me was a total 'BOMB.' Nobody wanted it, because his 'reporting' and reputation is so bad!' Trump wrote on Truth Social. Advertisement 5 Wolff, who penned 'Fire & Fury' about Trump's first administration, had claimed on The Daily Beast Podcast last week that the prez held a 'grudge' against the elite school because he'd been rejected. Getty Images 5 Demonstrators with signs stand around the John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard following a rally against President Donald Trump's attacks on Harvard University at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 17, 2025. AFP via Getty Images It comes soon after first lady Melania Trump shot down a viral conspiracy theory that her son Barron, too, applied to Harvard and was rejected. 'Barron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or that anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false,' the first lady's spokesman said. The 19-year-old's admissions status had been the subject of furious speculation on social media amid his father's repeated attacks — and cancellation of grants and other federal funds — on the Ivy League institution. Barron completed his freshman year at New York University last month.
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump Rages at Claim War on Harvard Is Revenge for Rejection
Donald Trump blew up on Truth Social over a claim from author Michael Wolff that his crusade against Harvard is personal. Wolff, author of several books about the president, claimed on The Daily Beast Podcast last week that Trump 'didn't get into Harvard' and suggested he's now targeting the university in part because he holds a 'grudge.' 'He needs an enemy,' Wolff said earlier in the podcast. 'That's what makes the show great. The Trump show. He picks fantastic enemies, actually. And Harvard, for all it represents, fits right into the Trump show,' he said. 'Going after Harvard has proved to be an incredibly reliable headline,' he added. 'So he's on the money. So he's done what he set out to do. Dominate headlines.' Trump has gone after the university with gusto, freezing its federal funding, threatening its tax-exempt status and moving to block it from enrolling international students. The president claimed Wolff's story is 'totally FALSE' and insisted he never applied to the Ivy League school. 'Michael Wolff, a Third Rate Reporter, who is laughed at even by the scoundrels of the Fake News, recently stated that the only reason I'm 'beating up' on Harvard, is because I applied there, and didn't get in,' Trump raged on his social media platform Monday. 'That story is totally FALSE, I never applied to Harvard,' Trump continued. 'I graduated from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. He is upset because his book about me was a total 'BOMB.' Nobody wanted it, because his 'reporting' and reputation is so bad!' Trump's education has been colored by claims from family members that he was a 'brat' and that his sister 'did his homework for him.' His higher education began at Fordham University in 1964. He studied for two years at the Bronx Catholic private school before transferring to the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at Penn. He graduated from the Ivy League university with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1968. His late sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, told her niece Mary Trump that she 'drove him around New York City to try to get him into college.' She said he attended Fordham briefly 'and then he got into University of Pennsylvania because he had somebody take his exams.' Those claims were denied by the widow of Joe Shapiro, the man who was said to have taken the test for Trump. The president's father and brother also helped him to get into the school through a connection, The Washington Post reported in 2019. Trump has long boasted of his time at the Wharton school, claiming it was one of the 'hardest school to get into' and that he graduated top of his class, a claim that the evidence suggests is dubious at best. Trump has had a long-running beef with Wolff, who wrote Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House and Siege: Trump Under Fire, among other titles. In February, Trump called Wolff's latest book, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America, a 'total FAKE JOB, just like the other JUNK he wrote.' 'He called me many times trying to set up a meeting, but I never called him back because I didn't want to give him the credibility of an interview,' Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time. Even before Wolff floated the claim that the president was snubbed by Harvard, speculation ran rampant over the reason for his vendetta. A White House spokesperson shot down the idea that Trump was rejected from the school, telling USA Today last week, the president 'didn't need to apply to an overrated, corrupt institution like Harvard to become a successful businessman and the most transformative President in history.' Trump has accused Harvard of liberal bias and antisemitism, using those claims to justify his offensive. According to Wolff, a running joke in White House circles held that Trump's war on the prestigious school stemmed from the rejection of another Trump: his youngest son, Barron. The narrative apparently made its way to first lady Melania Trump, whose spokesperson issued a statement last Tuesday calling the claim that Barron applied to Harvard 'completely false.' The 19-year-old recently finished his freshman year at New York University, where he studied at its Stern School of Business.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Team Trump Told Max Boss to Kiss Up by Giving Don Jr. a Show
Media giant Warner Bros. Discovery was reportedly offered a way into President Donald Trump's good graces: Give his son, Donald Trump Jr., his own show. Specifically, someone in the 'Trump orbit' told the company that the first son would like to host a nature show on Discovery, according to a sprawling new profile of WBD's CEO David Zaslav penned by the writer Michael Wolff for New York Magazine. Wolff has authored several books on President Donald Trump's ascent to power, which his team have repeatedly slammed as containing falsehoods and exaggerations. 'WBD confirmed that a company representative recently reached out to the Trump orbit seeking advice about how the company might advantageously interact with the White House and improve its Trump-age odor,' Wolff wrote. While WBD owns several notable properties like Max and the Discovery Channel, it also owns CNN, the news network that has for years been the target of Trump's anger. 'The reported message was to look at the example of Amazon and Jeff Bezos paying Melania Trump $40 million to participate in a documentary about herself,' he continued. 'Don Jr. might like a hunting and fishing show on the Discovery Channel, they were told. And that CNN could have more pro-Trump voices.' In a statement to the Daily Beast, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said: 'Michael Wolff is a lying sack of s*** and has been proven to be a fraud. He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.' Wolff recently attracted the Trump administration's ire after publishing a book on his 2024 presidential campaign, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America. When asked about revelations claimed in the book by the Daily Beast in February, Cheung again branded the author as a 'lying sack' of feces with a 'peanut-sized brain.' Representatives for WBD did not immediately respond to the Daily Beast's request for comment. The media conglomerate's reported attempt at currying favor with the president is but one example of a shifting industry landscape trying to adjust to the glaring light of Trump's second term. Paramount Global for example, has reportedly scaled back its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs to appease the Trump administration's directives as it seeks FCC approval for a merger deal with Hollywood power player Skydance Media.
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Politics
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‘Don't Tell Melania': Trump Once Offered Rising MAGA Star His Bed
Donald Trump once offered a MAGA newcomer his bed while she was feeling unwell, but told her to keep it a secret from Melania, according to a new bombshell book. The president made the offer aboard his personal jet in 2023, when Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, 35, was pregnant. 'If you need a bed to lay down in, there's one here on the plane. If you feel sick and you need to lay there, you can lay on it,' Trump reportedly told Luna. 'Just don't tell Melania. She doesn't like other women on my bed,' he joked. The comments, revealed in Axios reporter Alex Isenstadt's new book Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power, cast new light on the president's eyebrow-raising marriage to Melania Trump. 'She f---ing hates him,' a source close to Trump and his family told Michael Wolff, who last month published another book to delve into Trump's second campaign, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America. Melania was rarely seen by Trump's side on the campaign trail last year. The first lady has reportedly limited her stays at the White House since Trump's return to power, splitting her time between D.C. and Florida. 'She leads her own life and joins [the president] when appropriate in either place,' a source told People last month. Isenstadt's book divulges other candid moments from the president's campaign trail, such as sarcastic comments about going after his political opponents. 'Listen, everybody. There will be no retribution, there will be no revenge. Wink, wink,' he reportedly told aides in March 2024. He also raged against E. Jean Carroll and Stormy Daniels to an aide in April 2024, reportedly ranting, 'E. Jean Carroll says I f---ed her. Stormy Daniels says I f---ed her. But I never f---ed them. Everyone's f---ing everybody, but I never f---ed any of these people.' But his Republicans colleagues weren't off the hook either. When Ron DeSantis prepared to run against him in the 2023 Republican primary, Trump reportedly told then-Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, 'I'm going to squash this guy like a bug.' He also insulted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) for lacking charisma and made fun of casino mogul Steve Wynn's incurable eye disease, according to Isenstadt. 'Many of these so-called insider books are a desperate attempt to make money off of President Trump's name because journalism is a dying industry with reporters peddling lies and selling their souls in order to make a quick buck,' White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a statement to the Daily Beast. 'These works of fiction either belong in the bargain bin of the fantasy section in a discount bookstore or should be repurposed as tissue paper.'
