It was almost a full year ago when the Huffington Post declared Donald Trump’s fledgling candidacy a “sideshow” and announced that any future coverage of Trump would be found under HuffPo’s entertainment section.
It was more than a little awkward in December, then, when Arianna Huffington herself penned a lengthy essay explaining why the presumptive GOP nominee was returning to the site’s news page.
Trump’s hair, though, has been a decades-long sideshow that the press just can’t help but comb through again and again and again. On Thursday, the Washington Post published a compilation of its top 100 descriptions of Trump’s distinctive coiffure.
I spent 3 days culling the best 100 descriptions of Donald Trump's hair, ever: https://t.co/uSTncVW96f I shall tweet them. #TrumpHair.
— monica hesse (@MonicaHesse) June 2, 2016
Three days? It’s not our job to judge how others spend their time but … three days?
1. A masterpiece whose guiding principal is a heroic desire to completely conceal the forehead. #TrumpHair. https://t.co/uSTncVEyeH
— monica hesse (@MonicaHesse) June 2, 2016
6. It appears to be a combover, but doesn’t arrive from any direction. You cannot stare very long. It’s like staring at the sun. #TrumpHair
— monica hesse (@MonicaHesse) June 2, 2016
7. A decomposing ear of corn
8. A corn husk doll cursed by a witch#TrumpHair https://t.co/HzgCEvMsZB— monica hesse (@MonicaHesse) June 2, 2016
Personal favorite is 15. A mullet that died in some horrific accident #trumphair https://t.co/MQs8S7uduf
— Dustin Longstreth (@DTLongstreth) June 2, 2016
We’ll leave it to readers to check out the list themselves. Maybe your description made the list. If not, try harder.
My greatest failure as a writer is not making this list of the 100 greatest descriptions of Donald Trump’s hair. https://t.co/AbzTzuTQSb
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) June 2, 2016
If the Washington Post is taking requests, a compilation of the top 100 descriptions of Hillary Clinton’s distinctive cackle could be just as much fun … or would that be sexist? It’s hard to say. Kevin Drum of the liberal magazine Mother Jones took quite a bit of heat for mentioning her peculiar vocal stylings.
Hillary Clinton Has a Shouting Problem https://t.co/FjLACp3T13
— Kevin Drum (@kdrum) May 29, 2016
@kdrum you really did this again? wow.
— Darren Hutchinson (@dissentingj) May 29, 2016
@kdrum Seriously? Funny how so many of us, male and female,. have NO problem with her voice at all.
— CHURCHLADY320 (@CHURCHLADY320) May 29, 2016
.@kdrum "A lot of people will take this criticism as pure sexism. Maybe it is." It is.
— James Comtois (@JamesComtois) May 29, 2016
@JamesComtois Yes, @kdrum it is sexism and immense disrespect for woman who has accomplished way more in her life than you have in yours
— ddouglas (@dd9000) May 30, 2016
@kdrum if you think it might be sexist, it probably is. (And it's called a stump speech. Bernie and Trump do it, too. Bernie never deviates)
— MamaDeb (@_mamadeb) May 29, 2016
@kdrum This shit needs to end. Until I see an article about how EVERY MALE POLITICIAN shouts like a crazy person, just stop.
— Nicole David (@obbiecole) May 29, 2016
.@kdrum Kevin Drum Has a Misogyny Problem
— Kyle Allen (@LiberalCanuck) May 29, 2016
@kdrum Now tell us what's wrong with her body & her outfits. You know you want to.
— Mr. Dixon (@JoeLewisdixon) May 29, 2016
Better safe than sexist, that’s our motto. Here are a few approved tweets to assist the Washington Post in kicking off its next list.
Hillary has clearly had voice coaching off this: her voice is deeper, more intimate. #hillaryspeech
— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) June 2, 2016
Some men will be forced to come to terms with the sound of a powerful woman's voice when Hillary becomes president. https://t.co/u5GUIUtQVh
— Denise C. (@HawaiiDelilah) May 27, 2016
You know, maybe I just like Hillary's voice because it was the first one I ever heard say "women's rights are human rights."
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) May 30, 2016
the gentle-but-firm voice hillary clinton is using to drag donald trump through the mud & into a classroom is why she should be potus tbh
— Liz Zaretsky (@lizzaretsky) June 2, 2016
Is it possible to say Hillary has a formidable voice without being sexist?
— james richardson (@outofideas4anam) May 31, 2016
If it is sexist to say that #Hillary Clinton's voice makes me want to jam an ice pick into my temple, then I guess I am a sexist!!
— Shaun Flanigan (@sflanigan01) June 2, 2016
