Opinion: Genetics trumps claim that The Donald’s hair is fake

Given all the other critical things people are saying about Donald Trump, you might think he would (as it were) brush off the jokes about his hair.

As Trump might say, you’d have to be an idiot to believe it doesn’t matter to him.

The tycoon-turned-presidential candidate especially resents intimations that his tresses are fake, a familiar theme for comedians. David Letterman came out of retirement recently to josh that the “thing on his head was the gopher in “Caddyshack.’ ”

When ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz reminded Trump that “you even demean some people’s physical appearance,” Trump lashed back: “You say physical appearance. You know, it’s my hair but people are constantly attacking my hair. I don’t see you coming to my defense.”

Well, someone should come to Trump’s defense on this extremely narrow issue. The idea that his hair isn’t real seems to be refuted by genetics.

Trump’s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, is a respected senior judge on the U.S. 3^rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. She was appointed to the 3^rd Circuit by President Clinton after serving on the U.S. District Court in New Jersey by appointment of President Reagan.

But, to the point of this piece, she has the same hair as her brother, although it’s more carefully coiffed. Here’s a recent picture of the Trump siblings published in a Scottish newspaper. The judge had made a donation to a home for the aged in memory of her Scottish-born mother.

Case closed (although I suppose some conspiracy theorists might accuse both Trumps of wearing wigs). “My hair is just fine,” Donald Trump told Raddatz. But that leaves plenty of other things for his critics to comb through.

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