Has Trump stopped taking hair-loss meds and, if so, what's that about?
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By J.C. Bruce
Has Donald Trump stopped taking hair-loss medicine, and, if so, is it because of the possible side effects?
Those are the questions people are pondering following a Washington Post report that during Trump’s first term of office his doctors routinely listed the hair-loss medication finasteride (marketed as Propecia) in his medical records.
But now, it’s missing from those same reports.
How come?
Has he gotten over his vanity regarding his voluminous comb-over?
Or has he been suffering from some of the rare, but nonetheless real, possible side effects of the drug?
The White House isn’t talking, which leaves us to fill in the blanks.
First, let’s look at what the drug’s known possible side effects are. They include:
Decreased libido and erectile dysfunction.
Depression, anxiety or irritability.
So-called brain fog.
Enlarged and tender breasts.
While we are not privy to whether Trump is suffering from E.D. or tender breasts (and, frankly, we’d rather not even think about those things), brain fog fits given how he seems to doze off at the drop of a MAGA hat.
And, let’s be honest, the guy always seems irritable. How else to explain those dozens of middle-of-the-night rage posts on social media?
But we just don’t know.
It is also important— in fairness to the wealthy pharmaceutical company that makes the drug (Organon & Co.) and its legions of litigators—that there are physical and psychiatric conditions that are NOT known side effects of the drug.
For instance, no hair loss medication, according to my research, has ever been accused of causing someone to:
Suffer from malignant narcissism.
Insist on naming things after himself, such as performing arts centers, airports, battleships, and government institutions.
Plaster his arrest mugshot everywhere —on currency, passports, visas, etc.
Attack another country, blow it up, wreck his own economy in the process and his standing in the polls, and then just shrug his shoulders and claim, “No big deal.”
Whine endlessly that the election he lost was somehow “stolen.”
Sue himself, settle the suit with himself, then try to get the U.S. Treasury to pay him $1.8 billion.
Hide classified documents in his bathroom.
Foment an insurrection to overthrow the government.
Repeatedly show up in The Epstein Files.
Paint everything in sight gold.
Lie constantly, including that Mexico would pay for a border wall, that his inauguration crowd (barely visible in aerial photos) was the biggest ever, that COVID-19 would “go away with the heat,” or, perhaps the biggest lie of all…
Claim that he is a “stable genius.”
Nope, can’t blame hair-loss preventatives for any of that.
So, then, is he still taking the drug or not? When the Post inquired, they got the standard Washington non-denial denial:
“The current report reflects all medications deemed clinically relevant to disclose at this time. No additional undisclosed conditions or procedures materially affecting his health status were omitted from this report.”
Which leaves us to wonder: What else is this soon-to-be 80 year-old not telling us about his mental and physical health?
J.C. Bruce is the founder of Tropic Press, a newsletter and website reaching more than 700,000 Floridians daily. He is an award-winning journalist and author, a native Miamian, and an alum of the University of South Florida among other institutions of higher learning where he served time.
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"soon to be 80-year old taking a dirt nap."
He's past his prime.