Post by cypher on Jan 23, 2021 22:55:45 GMT -5
Political decoys are nothing new under the sun.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_decoy
Often, the pretense of having undergone extensive cosmetic or plastic surgery in order to improve one's looks is used as an alibi for the clearly observable random differences between doubles that nowadays have become much easier than ever to be spotted and relentlessly talked about.
And what about the original public figures in question? Does the usage of stand-ins mean they've never gone under the knife or gotten any dermal fillers, Botox or whatever ? Bollocks!
Today, plastic and cosmetic surgeries as well as minimally invasive aesthetic procedures have reached such an accessibility degree that even the average Johns and Janes next door have gotten it at some point in their lives, let alone political figures and filthy rich CEOs.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6970041/How-Joe-Biden-underwent-cosmetic-overhaul-make-appealing-voters.html
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metro.co.uk/2018/02/13/plastic-surgeons-claim-scar-reveal-wispy-mystery-donald-trumps-hair-7308232/
www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/01/trumps-lesbian-niece-mary-says-worst-day-life/
Losers, indeed.
nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html
Take what's 'best' from this video and just leave the rest.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_decoy
The practice of decoying is essentially little different from the profession of celebrity lookalike, in which people mimic famous entertainers whom they resemble. The only difference is that the "lookalike" presents an acknowledged artifice. The decoy must conceal his or her imposture from the "audience".
In 2001, Poland hosted the first-ever doppelganger convention, to which lookalikes from across the country turned up, offering the unlikely spectacle of Joseph Stalin hobnobbing with Elizabeth Taylor. Nearly all the doppelgangers at the event had complemented their resemblance to a famous person by costume.
Some "lookalikes" actually stop mimicking their targets and start pretending to be them. Comedian Robin Williams was one such victim, whose identity was allegedly "stolen" by professional look-alike Michael Clayton, for financial reasons.
Since deception is the whole purpose of employing a political decoy, there are many instances of alleged decoying which remain uncertain.
Joe R. Reeder, an undersecretary for the U.S. Army from 1993 to 1997, has gone on record with claims that a number of figures around the world have or have had decoys, including Manuel Noriega, Raoul Cédras, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden.
Of Noriega's alleged four decoys, Reeder said, "They were good. They practiced his gait, his manner of speech and his modus operandi – what he did during the day and night."
Information on these instances of decoying is hard to come by. And falsely accusing an enemy of using a decoy can be an effective psychological operations tactic (making an enemy seem like a coward who dare not appear in person, for example).
This means that the confusion generated by the existence of real decoys is deepened by counterclaims of decoys where there may be none.
The case of Osama bin Laden is instructive. In the absence of confirmed sightings of the terrorist figurehead, many sources openly speculated that videotaped messages from bin Laden were in fact recordings of a double - either as part of a "frame-up" operation, or as part of a strategy of deception on bin Laden's part.
Speculation in such situations is naturally liable to run high. For the purposes of this entry, only well-documented allegations or confirmed cases of political decoying are discussed. Instances which are still under debate will have section headings below in quotes.
Bernard Montgomery/Clifton James and "Tex" Banwell (1944)
Soldier M. E. Clifton James successfully impersonated General Bernard Montgomery ("Monty") for intelligence purposes during World War II. In 1940, James acted in an Army production called When Knights Were Bold and his photograph appeared in an Army newspaper with a remark about how much he resembled General Montgomery.
As a result, he was approached by actor David Niven in May 1944. Niven, then a Colonel in the Army Kinematograph Section, told James he was wanted to impersonate "Monty", as this would allow Montgomery to be somewhere else, thus confusing the Germans.
James had to learn Montgomery's gestures, mannerisms, gait and voice and had to give up smoking.
Because James had lost his right-hand middle finger in the First World War, a realistic replacement was made.
Even his wife had to be deceived and was both kept in the dark and sent back to Leicester. Once he was trained, his trip as "Monty" was to Gibraltar and from there to Algiers. "Monty's" presence succeeded in confusing the Germans in regard to the invasion plans.
James was later the subject of a biopic called I Was Monty's Double starring James himself in the double role as Monty and himself.
The second (and less famous) "Monty's Double", Keith Deamer Banwell, was serving with the land-based Long Range Desert Group.
Banwell was captured in a raid on Tobruk, but with a friend managed to steal a German vehicle and escape. During a subsequent raid on Crete he was taken prisoner at Heraklion and put under the personal supervision of former world heavyweight boxing champion Max Schmeling, who was serving in the German Army.
Banwell and a few of his comrades managed to slip away from their captors and then acquired an assault landing craft. With the help of some Cretan fishermen they made their getaway, but the craft ran out of fuel and drifted for nine days before reaching the North African coast. The privations of this voyage put Banwell in hospital for 12 weeks.
When he had recovered, someone noticed that he bore a resemblance to General Montgomery. It was decided that he participate in deception ploys, and so Banwell was sent to Cairo to meet Montgomery, given the appropriate clothing, insignia and General's badges and sent on trips around the Middle East to confuse enemy spies.
However, as he was considerably taller than Montgomery, he was told that on no account should he get out of the car. Banwell, finding the assignment boring, sought a return to the infantry.
Adolf Hitler/unknown (?–1945)
Adolf Hitler is known to have employed at least one double, Gustav Weler. British surgeon and historical writer W. Hugh Thomas reported in his 1996 book Doppelgangers that Gustav Weler was found alive after the war and that Allied troops interviewed Weler following Hitler's death.
Heinrich Himmler/unknown (?–1945)
Hugh Thomas claims that the man who committed suicide after his capture in Lüneburg in May 1945, was not in fact Heinrich Himmler. Thomas's book on this subject, SS-1: The Unlikely Death of Heinrich Himmler, sets out the alleged deception in great detail.
Joseph Stalin/"Rashid"/Felix Dadaev (1940s–50s)
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin is alleged to have had a double, identified only as "Rashid". Officials at the KGB allegedly learned that Rashid was a "double" for Stalin and employed him to replace Stalin for some public functions after World War II. Rashid spent two years studying with Alexei Dikiy, an actor who played the role of Stalin in propaganda films. Rashid claimed there were other Stalin lookalikes employed by the KGB, although he never met any. He claimed to have heard of another Stalin double who was hired to live in the leader's dacha outside of Moscow in the late 1940s and 1950s when Stalin was dying. This double filled in for Stalin for media events and at times when Stalin had to meet government functionaries and others. Rashid died in 1991, aged 93.
In 2008 another one of Stalin's doubles, Felix Dadaev, came forward, having written a book about his adventures as a political decoy. The Putin government gave him permission to tell his story at age 88. He appeared in a 2014 documentary about Stalin's last days on German television.
Sukarno/unknown (1950s)
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had planned to bring down Indonesia's first president Sukarno by portraying him in a pornographic film in the late 1950s.
The agency put together a pornographic film starring a Sukarno look-alike in bed with a blonde playing a Soviet agent. The humiliation caused by circulating the film was supposed to drive Sukarno from office, but the plan was unsuccessful.
Henry Kissinger/unknown (1971)
A former aide to Henry Kissinger has gone on the record with claims that Kissinger was impersonated at least once during his secret visit to China in 1971. Since no one was allowed to examine 'Kissinger' at close quarters, the resemblance of the impersonator to his 'target' must remain under some doubt.
Saddam Hussein/several unknowns (1990s–2003)
In 2003, German television network ZDF broadcast claimed that Iraq's former president Saddam Hussein was frequently replaced with doubles for TV appearances. This analysis was based on sophisticated measuring techniques, which detected discrepancies in the position of Hussein's facial features and blemishes from appearance to appearance. It was supported by the opinion of Jerrold Post, the man who created the CIA's Psychological Profile Unit. It was also alleged that Austrian politician Jörg Haider had actually met a double when he thought he was meeting Hussein.
This claim is however disputed. Ala Bashir, Saddam Hussein's former personal physician, stated, "The stories about Saddam Hussein having body doubles, to foster the impression that the Iraqi dictator was everywhere, are nonsense."
Voice-only decoys
These are generally exceptionally good impersonators, who are used to give the impression that their "target" is conducting a radio interview, telephone call or other vocal assignment.
Winston Churchill/Norman Shelley (1940s)
A recurring rumour holds that some of Winston Churchill's most famous speeches to Parliament during World War II were subsequently recorded for radio broadcast not by Churchill, but by Norman Shelley impersonating Churchill. Churchill is known to have commented that Shelley's impersonations were excellent. Although the rumour has been promoted by some historians, there is a lack of supporting evidence, and it is best classified as an urban legend. Shelley did however record a performance of Churchill's "We shall fight on the beaches" speech, but that was several years after the speech was originally made.
Harry S. Truman/unknown (1947)
Edwin Wright served the U.S. federal government under President Harry S. Truman as General staff G-2 and Middle East specialist, Washington (1945–46); on the Bureau of Near East-South Asian-African Affairs, Department of State (1946 onwards); country specialist (1946–47); advisor U.N. affairs (1947–50); and advisor on intelligence (1950–55).
According to Wright, an unknown individual impersonated President Truman's voice on the telephone in order to sway foreign leaders into voting in particular ways at the United Nations.
There are two documents from Truman himself alleging this, both currently lodged at the Truman Presidential Library.
In the first, Truman wrote:
Something's going on and I don't know what it is. Somebody called up the President of Haiti and he said that it was I.... He said, 'We want you to vote for the Zionist program.' As a result the President of Haiti changed his vote to satisfy what he thought was me. I don't know who this fellow was that called him up.
Wright comments, "In other words, somebody impersonated President Truman and threatened the President of Haiti. There were people who used President Truman's voice and name and he didn't know who they were."
Indira Gandhi/Rustom Nagarwala (1971)
In a cross-gender voice impersonation in 1971, a former captain of the Indian Army named Rustom Sohrab Nagarwala (male) was able to take out 6 million rupees from the State Bank of India by mimicking the voice of prime minister Indira Gandhi to chief cashier Ved Prakash Malhotra. Nagarwala was arrested, however, after Malhotra went in person to collect a receipt from P. N. Haksar, Indira Gandhi's personal secretary, informing him that the requested payment was done. A stunned Haksar informed Malhotra that Mrs Gandhi had instructed nothing of the sort and urged him to inform the police immediately. Later that year, Nagarwala died of a heart attack in prison.
In 2001, Poland hosted the first-ever doppelganger convention, to which lookalikes from across the country turned up, offering the unlikely spectacle of Joseph Stalin hobnobbing with Elizabeth Taylor. Nearly all the doppelgangers at the event had complemented their resemblance to a famous person by costume.
Some "lookalikes" actually stop mimicking their targets and start pretending to be them. Comedian Robin Williams was one such victim, whose identity was allegedly "stolen" by professional look-alike Michael Clayton, for financial reasons.
Since deception is the whole purpose of employing a political decoy, there are many instances of alleged decoying which remain uncertain.
Joe R. Reeder, an undersecretary for the U.S. Army from 1993 to 1997, has gone on record with claims that a number of figures around the world have or have had decoys, including Manuel Noriega, Raoul Cédras, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden.
Of Noriega's alleged four decoys, Reeder said, "They were good. They practiced his gait, his manner of speech and his modus operandi – what he did during the day and night."
Information on these instances of decoying is hard to come by. And falsely accusing an enemy of using a decoy can be an effective psychological operations tactic (making an enemy seem like a coward who dare not appear in person, for example).
This means that the confusion generated by the existence of real decoys is deepened by counterclaims of decoys where there may be none.
The case of Osama bin Laden is instructive. In the absence of confirmed sightings of the terrorist figurehead, many sources openly speculated that videotaped messages from bin Laden were in fact recordings of a double - either as part of a "frame-up" operation, or as part of a strategy of deception on bin Laden's part.
Speculation in such situations is naturally liable to run high. For the purposes of this entry, only well-documented allegations or confirmed cases of political decoying are discussed. Instances which are still under debate will have section headings below in quotes.
Bernard Montgomery/Clifton James and "Tex" Banwell (1944)
Soldier M. E. Clifton James successfully impersonated General Bernard Montgomery ("Monty") for intelligence purposes during World War II. In 1940, James acted in an Army production called When Knights Were Bold and his photograph appeared in an Army newspaper with a remark about how much he resembled General Montgomery.
As a result, he was approached by actor David Niven in May 1944. Niven, then a Colonel in the Army Kinematograph Section, told James he was wanted to impersonate "Monty", as this would allow Montgomery to be somewhere else, thus confusing the Germans.
James had to learn Montgomery's gestures, mannerisms, gait and voice and had to give up smoking.
Because James had lost his right-hand middle finger in the First World War, a realistic replacement was made.
Even his wife had to be deceived and was both kept in the dark and sent back to Leicester. Once he was trained, his trip as "Monty" was to Gibraltar and from there to Algiers. "Monty's" presence succeeded in confusing the Germans in regard to the invasion plans.
James was later the subject of a biopic called I Was Monty's Double starring James himself in the double role as Monty and himself.
The second (and less famous) "Monty's Double", Keith Deamer Banwell, was serving with the land-based Long Range Desert Group.
Banwell was captured in a raid on Tobruk, but with a friend managed to steal a German vehicle and escape. During a subsequent raid on Crete he was taken prisoner at Heraklion and put under the personal supervision of former world heavyweight boxing champion Max Schmeling, who was serving in the German Army.
Banwell and a few of his comrades managed to slip away from their captors and then acquired an assault landing craft. With the help of some Cretan fishermen they made their getaway, but the craft ran out of fuel and drifted for nine days before reaching the North African coast. The privations of this voyage put Banwell in hospital for 12 weeks.
When he had recovered, someone noticed that he bore a resemblance to General Montgomery. It was decided that he participate in deception ploys, and so Banwell was sent to Cairo to meet Montgomery, given the appropriate clothing, insignia and General's badges and sent on trips around the Middle East to confuse enemy spies.
However, as he was considerably taller than Montgomery, he was told that on no account should he get out of the car. Banwell, finding the assignment boring, sought a return to the infantry.
Adolf Hitler/unknown (?–1945)
Adolf Hitler is known to have employed at least one double, Gustav Weler. British surgeon and historical writer W. Hugh Thomas reported in his 1996 book Doppelgangers that Gustav Weler was found alive after the war and that Allied troops interviewed Weler following Hitler's death.
Heinrich Himmler/unknown (?–1945)
Hugh Thomas claims that the man who committed suicide after his capture in Lüneburg in May 1945, was not in fact Heinrich Himmler. Thomas's book on this subject, SS-1: The Unlikely Death of Heinrich Himmler, sets out the alleged deception in great detail.
Joseph Stalin/"Rashid"/Felix Dadaev (1940s–50s)
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin is alleged to have had a double, identified only as "Rashid". Officials at the KGB allegedly learned that Rashid was a "double" for Stalin and employed him to replace Stalin for some public functions after World War II. Rashid spent two years studying with Alexei Dikiy, an actor who played the role of Stalin in propaganda films. Rashid claimed there were other Stalin lookalikes employed by the KGB, although he never met any. He claimed to have heard of another Stalin double who was hired to live in the leader's dacha outside of Moscow in the late 1940s and 1950s when Stalin was dying. This double filled in for Stalin for media events and at times when Stalin had to meet government functionaries and others. Rashid died in 1991, aged 93.
In 2008 another one of Stalin's doubles, Felix Dadaev, came forward, having written a book about his adventures as a political decoy. The Putin government gave him permission to tell his story at age 88. He appeared in a 2014 documentary about Stalin's last days on German television.
Sukarno/unknown (1950s)
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had planned to bring down Indonesia's first president Sukarno by portraying him in a pornographic film in the late 1950s.
The agency put together a pornographic film starring a Sukarno look-alike in bed with a blonde playing a Soviet agent. The humiliation caused by circulating the film was supposed to drive Sukarno from office, but the plan was unsuccessful.
Henry Kissinger/unknown (1971)
A former aide to Henry Kissinger has gone on the record with claims that Kissinger was impersonated at least once during his secret visit to China in 1971. Since no one was allowed to examine 'Kissinger' at close quarters, the resemblance of the impersonator to his 'target' must remain under some doubt.
Saddam Hussein/several unknowns (1990s–2003)
In 2003, German television network ZDF broadcast claimed that Iraq's former president Saddam Hussein was frequently replaced with doubles for TV appearances. This analysis was based on sophisticated measuring techniques, which detected discrepancies in the position of Hussein's facial features and blemishes from appearance to appearance. It was supported by the opinion of Jerrold Post, the man who created the CIA's Psychological Profile Unit. It was also alleged that Austrian politician Jörg Haider had actually met a double when he thought he was meeting Hussein.
This claim is however disputed. Ala Bashir, Saddam Hussein's former personal physician, stated, "The stories about Saddam Hussein having body doubles, to foster the impression that the Iraqi dictator was everywhere, are nonsense."
Voice-only decoys
These are generally exceptionally good impersonators, who are used to give the impression that their "target" is conducting a radio interview, telephone call or other vocal assignment.
Winston Churchill/Norman Shelley (1940s)
A recurring rumour holds that some of Winston Churchill's most famous speeches to Parliament during World War II were subsequently recorded for radio broadcast not by Churchill, but by Norman Shelley impersonating Churchill. Churchill is known to have commented that Shelley's impersonations were excellent. Although the rumour has been promoted by some historians, there is a lack of supporting evidence, and it is best classified as an urban legend. Shelley did however record a performance of Churchill's "We shall fight on the beaches" speech, but that was several years after the speech was originally made.
Harry S. Truman/unknown (1947)
Edwin Wright served the U.S. federal government under President Harry S. Truman as General staff G-2 and Middle East specialist, Washington (1945–46); on the Bureau of Near East-South Asian-African Affairs, Department of State (1946 onwards); country specialist (1946–47); advisor U.N. affairs (1947–50); and advisor on intelligence (1950–55).
According to Wright, an unknown individual impersonated President Truman's voice on the telephone in order to sway foreign leaders into voting in particular ways at the United Nations.
There are two documents from Truman himself alleging this, both currently lodged at the Truman Presidential Library.
In the first, Truman wrote:
Something's going on and I don't know what it is. Somebody called up the President of Haiti and he said that it was I.... He said, 'We want you to vote for the Zionist program.' As a result the President of Haiti changed his vote to satisfy what he thought was me. I don't know who this fellow was that called him up.
Wright comments, "In other words, somebody impersonated President Truman and threatened the President of Haiti. There were people who used President Truman's voice and name and he didn't know who they were."
Indira Gandhi/Rustom Nagarwala (1971)
In a cross-gender voice impersonation in 1971, a former captain of the Indian Army named Rustom Sohrab Nagarwala (male) was able to take out 6 million rupees from the State Bank of India by mimicking the voice of prime minister Indira Gandhi to chief cashier Ved Prakash Malhotra. Nagarwala was arrested, however, after Malhotra went in person to collect a receipt from P. N. Haksar, Indira Gandhi's personal secretary, informing him that the requested payment was done. A stunned Haksar informed Malhotra that Mrs Gandhi had instructed nothing of the sort and urged him to inform the police immediately. Later that year, Nagarwala died of a heart attack in prison.
Often, the pretense of having undergone extensive cosmetic or plastic surgery in order to improve one's looks is used as an alibi for the clearly observable random differences between doubles that nowadays have become much easier than ever to be spotted and relentlessly talked about.
And what about the original public figures in question? Does the usage of stand-ins mean they've never gone under the knife or gotten any dermal fillers, Botox or whatever ? Bollocks!
Today, plastic and cosmetic surgeries as well as minimally invasive aesthetic procedures have reached such an accessibility degree that even the average Johns and Janes next door have gotten it at some point in their lives, let alone political figures and filthy rich CEOs.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6970041/How-Joe-Biden-underwent-cosmetic-overhaul-make-appealing-voters.html
Former Vice President Joe Biden has undergone numerous cosmetic procedures to alter his appearance, including Botox, hair transplants, and dental work, plastic surgeons say.
Surgeons say that Biden, 76, who polls show is the front runner in the race for the Democratic nomination for president, began to look noticeably different during the 2008 campaign.
That was when the then-senator from Delaware allegedly altered his hairline, filled in the wrinkles on his face and forehead, and installed dental veneers.
‘Without any question Joe Biden had hair transplants,’ Dr. Barry Cohen, a Washington, DC-area plastic surgeon, told the Washington Examiner.
Biden has never confirmed undergoing any of the procedures, nor has he spoken about his appearance publicly.
‘In fact, he had bad plugs years ago,’ Cohen alleges.
‘Subsequently, he filled in his frontal hairline to camouflage the bad “Barbie dollesque” plugs.
‘I suspect he has regular Botox and probably filler.
‘If he had a face lift, he needs another.’
Biden’s teeth have also attracted considerable attention.
During the 2012 vice presidential debates against Paul Ryan, cosmetic surgeons speculated that Biden was fitted with either porcelain veneers or a porcelain bridge.
The procedure likely cost around $20,000.
Dr. Lawrence M. Koplin, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, told the Examiner that while Biden’s procedures aren’t perfect, they were well done.
Koplin said that after Biden lost his son, Beau, to brain cancer in 2015, it is possible the former vice president wanted to head off the aging process that is exacerbated by tragedies.
‘It is not a stretch to imagine his desire to reach back to “freshen” his appearance and rewind to a time when things were better and happier,’ Koplin said.
In years past, having so many procedures done may have been a political liability. But times have changed, as public figures routinely make themselves look younger.
‘No one cares anymore,’ Cohen said.
In 2015, journalist Edward Klein wrote a book, Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary, in which he claimed that Hillary Clinton was operated on by a surgeon in a ‘mini operating room in her home with the latest medical equipment.’
The former secretary of state underwent secret plastic surgery before beginning her campaign for the 2016 presidency, Klein’s book claimed.
Bill Clinton 'wanted her to get a face-lift' and 'she couldn't do anything about the calendar - she'd be 69 years old in 2016 - but she could do something about the lines and sagging skin on her face', according to Klein.
The front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination 'had no intention of going to a clinic', so she asked a well-known plastic surgeon to set up a 'mini operating room' in her Chappaqua, New York, home with 'the latest medical equipment'.
Clinton had her 'cheeks lifted and her wrinkles and lines Botoxed' and had 'work done' on her eyes, neck and forehead, according to Klein.
The current president, Donald Trump, also appears to have had work done to alter his look, most noticeably with his hair.
Surgeons say that Biden, 76, who polls show is the front runner in the race for the Democratic nomination for president, began to look noticeably different during the 2008 campaign.
That was when the then-senator from Delaware allegedly altered his hairline, filled in the wrinkles on his face and forehead, and installed dental veneers.
‘Without any question Joe Biden had hair transplants,’ Dr. Barry Cohen, a Washington, DC-area plastic surgeon, told the Washington Examiner.
Biden has never confirmed undergoing any of the procedures, nor has he spoken about his appearance publicly.
‘In fact, he had bad plugs years ago,’ Cohen alleges.
‘Subsequently, he filled in his frontal hairline to camouflage the bad “Barbie dollesque” plugs.
‘I suspect he has regular Botox and probably filler.
‘If he had a face lift, he needs another.’
Biden’s teeth have also attracted considerable attention.
During the 2012 vice presidential debates against Paul Ryan, cosmetic surgeons speculated that Biden was fitted with either porcelain veneers or a porcelain bridge.
The procedure likely cost around $20,000.
Dr. Lawrence M. Koplin, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, told the Examiner that while Biden’s procedures aren’t perfect, they were well done.
Koplin said that after Biden lost his son, Beau, to brain cancer in 2015, it is possible the former vice president wanted to head off the aging process that is exacerbated by tragedies.
‘It is not a stretch to imagine his desire to reach back to “freshen” his appearance and rewind to a time when things were better and happier,’ Koplin said.
In years past, having so many procedures done may have been a political liability. But times have changed, as public figures routinely make themselves look younger.
‘No one cares anymore,’ Cohen said.
In 2015, journalist Edward Klein wrote a book, Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary, in which he claimed that Hillary Clinton was operated on by a surgeon in a ‘mini operating room in her home with the latest medical equipment.’
The former secretary of state underwent secret plastic surgery before beginning her campaign for the 2016 presidency, Klein’s book claimed.
Bill Clinton 'wanted her to get a face-lift' and 'she couldn't do anything about the calendar - she'd be 69 years old in 2016 - but she could do something about the lines and sagging skin on her face', according to Klein.
The front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination 'had no intention of going to a clinic', so she asked a well-known plastic surgeon to set up a 'mini operating room' in her Chappaqua, New York, home with 'the latest medical equipment'.
Clinton had her 'cheeks lifted and her wrinkles and lines Botoxed' and had 'work done' on her eyes, neck and forehead, according to Klein.
The current president, Donald Trump, also appears to have had work done to alter his look, most noticeably with his hair.
treatment emoticons
metro.co.uk/2018/02/13/plastic-surgeons-claim-scar-reveal-wispy-mystery-donald-trumps-hair-7308232/
Plastic surgeons have weighed in, suggesting the unusual scar on Trump’s head could be a tell-tale sign of a scalp reduction treatment, or hair transplant.
Johns Hopkins University professor of otolaryngology Dr Lisa Ishii said the operations can prove difficult and dangerous, here is a little more information on the procedures.
She told the Daily Beast: ‘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. ‘If you had a large bald area, you’d have to have several procedures in a row before you actually achieved your goal to cut out the bald spot,’ she said. ‘You can’t do it in one fell swoop.’
Dr Ishii also explained that scalp reduction surgery is now uncommon after being replaced by hair transplant procedures in the 1990s, which tend to be both safer and more effective.
However, Dr Samuel Lam, of the Lam Institute for Hair Restoration, thinks it’s ‘most likely’ Trump has surgery.
He said: ‘If you see a vertical incision on the back of the scalp on the crown, that’s very typical of a scalp reduction.’ Trump’s ex-wife Ivana alleged that Trump had scalp reduction surgery in 1989, in her 1990 divorce deposition.
In the explosive Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Michael Wollf also claims Trump has had scalp reduction surgery. Trump has repeatedly denied having procedures and maintains that his hair is entirely his own.
Johns Hopkins University professor of otolaryngology Dr Lisa Ishii said the operations can prove difficult and dangerous, here is a little more information on the procedures.
She told the Daily Beast: ‘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. ‘If you had a large bald area, you’d have to have several procedures in a row before you actually achieved your goal to cut out the bald spot,’ she said. ‘You can’t do it in one fell swoop.’
Dr Ishii also explained that scalp reduction surgery is now uncommon after being replaced by hair transplant procedures in the 1990s, which tend to be both safer and more effective.
However, Dr Samuel Lam, of the Lam Institute for Hair Restoration, thinks it’s ‘most likely’ Trump has surgery.
He said: ‘If you see a vertical incision on the back of the scalp on the crown, that’s very typical of a scalp reduction.’ Trump’s ex-wife Ivana alleged that Trump had scalp reduction surgery in 1989, in her 1990 divorce deposition.
In the explosive Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Michael Wollf also claims Trump has had scalp reduction surgery. Trump has repeatedly denied having procedures and maintains that his hair is entirely his own.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/01/trumps-lesbian-niece-mary-says-worst-day-life/
Trump’s lesbian niece Mary says this is “the worst day of his life”
"He's become what he loathes, which is a loser."
"He's become what he loathes, which is a loser."
Losers, indeed.
nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html
It is often said that Donald Trump has had the same nationalistic, zero-sum worldview forever. But that isn’t exactly true. Yes, his racism and mendacity have been evident since his youth, but those who have traced the evolution of his hypernationalism all settle on one year in particular: 1987. Trump “came onto the political stage in 1987 with a full-page ad in the New York Times attacking the Japanese for relying on the United States to defend it militarily,” reported Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “The president has believed for 30 years that these alliance commitments are a drain on our finite national treasure,” a White House official told the Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin. Tom Wright, another scholar who has delved into Trump’s history, reached the same conclusion. “1987 is Trump’s breakout year. There are only a couple of examples of him commenting on world politics before then.”
What changed that year? One possible explanation is that Trump published The Art of the Deal, which sped up his transformation from an aggressive, publicity-seeking New York developer to a national symbol of capitalism. But the timing for this account does not line up perfectly — the book came out on November 1, and Trump had begun opining loudly on trade and international politics two months earlier. The other important event from that year is that Trump visited Moscow.
What changed that year? One possible explanation is that Trump published The Art of the Deal, which sped up his transformation from an aggressive, publicity-seeking New York developer to a national symbol of capitalism. But the timing for this account does not line up perfectly — the book came out on November 1, and Trump had begun opining loudly on trade and international politics two months earlier. The other important event from that year is that Trump visited Moscow.
Take what's 'best' from this video and just leave the rest.