Donald Trump’s hair causes a lot of controversy: It’s been called a combover and compared to an ear of corn. But is it fake?
A video released on Monday appears to show an incision line down the middle of Trump’s rear scalp as his hair blows in the wind while boarding Air Force One. The clip, which has garnered over four million views, reignited speculation that the president received scalp reduction surgery in 1989.
Trump’s ex-wife Ivana claimed in a 1990 divorce deposition that plastic surgeon Steven Hoefflin, whose past clients included Michael Jackson, Joan Rivers, and Elizabeth Taylor, operated on Trump. He denied the claim, according to a 1993 Newsday report.
The Daily Beast talked with two top plastic surgeons to discuss the procedure and whether or not it appears Trump had it done.
Scalp-reduction surgery pulls sections of the scalp forward to fill in a bald spot.
Dr. Lisa Ishii, a professor of otolaryngology (an ear, nose, and throat specialist) at Johns Hopkins University says the surgery can be tricky.
“Scalp skin is very stiff skin. It’s very hard to pull together the skin edges and get them to close to each other if you cut out anything beyond a half dollar size piece of skin,”she said. Hair transplantation in India
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