The US president was renowned for his iconic golden barnet, but he has let it go white in “his only concession to age” and he often has to ask people to speak louder as his hearing is said to be going
US President Donald Trump has stopped dyeing his hair and believes he’ll be dead “within a decade”, it has emerged. The Orange Manbaby, 79, let his iconic golden barnet go white which a a senior aide claimed is “his only concession to age”.
Sources close to thepolarising president reportedly said he appears to be “thinking about what he’d be remembered for”. This includes decisions like slapping his name on the Kennedy Center and erecting a huge ballroom at the White House stemming from his desire to “leave a legacy”.
Additionally, an insider revealed that when TV cameras at Mar-a-Lago showed former president Jimmy Carter’s body lying in state at the US Capitol after his death, Trump surprised people in the room when he said: “You know, within 10 years that will be me.”
The revelations came to light during a feature in New York Magazine, in which a Republican operative with ties to the administration said: “He doesn’t think of legacy in terms of policies enacted. It’s buildings he can leave behind and prizes he can win.”
His hearing is said to also be going and he often has to ask people to speak louder, although he doesn’t appear to have picked up on this himself, it’s claimed. But he also insisted that he is in “perfect health” and feels “the same as I did 40 years ago”.
Trump, who turns 80 this year, has been “sharing anecdotes about his father”. He has also been reportedly telling how it wasn’t until his old man retired that he truly started to act like the old man he actually was, according to another senior White House official.
He told the magazine: “He had an expression that I always remember: ‘To retire is to expire’.” Trump’s dad Fred died in 1999 at age 93.
Trump said he had a “heart that couldn’t be stopped” with almost no health conditions to speak of throughout his long life.
A confused Trump said: “He had one problem. At a certain age, about 86, 87, he started getting, what do they call it?”
He then pointed to his forehead and looked to his press secretary Karoline Leavitt for the word that escaped him. She said: “Alzheimer’s”.
Trump added: “Like an Alzheimer’s thing. Well, I don’t have it.”
When asked if it is something he thinks about, he said: “No, I don’t think about it at all. You know why? Because whatever it is, my attitude is whatever.”
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