We May Have Unlocked the Mystery of Trump's Orange Skin

[demmiblue]

Source: Mother Jones

Why is Donald Trump so orange? This has been one of the mysteries of the 2016 presidential campaign. The internet is full of speculation, but the consensus is that Trump is an aficionado of bad spray tans or the tanning booth. (The white goggle lines are a dead giveaway.) He hasn't always been this shade. Fifteen years ago, Trump's pallor was almost normal. But something changed about 10 years ago and the internet hasn't fully explained why. There might be a strong clue: Trump's longtime friendship with the former CEO of a tanning company.

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Hilbert made his fortune at Conseco, the insurance behemoth he founded in the late 1970s. In his glory days, he was one of the country's highest-paid CEOs. He was famous for helicoptering to work—a commute of less than two miles. The businessman reportedly met his sixth and current wife in the early 1990s, when she jumped topless out of a cake at a party for one of his stepsons. The cake story may be apocryphal, but Tomisue Hilbert, who is the same age as Melania, was indeed a 23-year-old topless dancer and a single mother when she married Steve.

The Hilberts once lived in a three-story, 23,000 square-foot faux-French mansion dubbed Le Chateau Renaissance, which was located on a 33-acre compound outside Indianapolis that included a 15,000-square-foot "sports barn" with a full-size reproduction of the Indiana University basketball court. The mansion, once valued at $25 million, featured Trumpesque gold-plated bathroom fixtures and French crystal chandeliers. Hand-painted murals adorned a dome above the entryway, including one depicting a toga-clad Steve Hilbert as an ancient deity.

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This is also around the time that Trump started to turn orange. Did the Hilberts get Trump into tanning? Does he use New Sunshine spray tans or tanning bed bronzers? (Reviewers have suggested that turning orange—a "rich shade of burnt orange," in the words of one—can be a distinct side effect of using such products.) The Trump campaign did not respond to questions about whether Trump used New Sunshine tanning products. Questions sent by email and FedEx to Hilbert's Indiana home went unanswered. It's clear, though, that Trump is familiar with New Sunshine's wares. He promoted the company's tanning products on The Celebrity Apprentice in two episodes.

Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/why-donald-trump-turned-orange


Birds of a feather!

[still_one]

1. Let's see what his liver enzymes are

[xocet]

10. You know that he's got the best liver enzymes of anyone who has ever run for President....

[Hoyt]

2. Beta Carotene.

[Bucky]

4. No!! Our future leader and Presidentisimo has only ALPHA carotene!

[demmiblue]

5. Lol...

[canetoad]

3. This is a bit cruel

Even for Trump, but did ya see the Esquire article wondering if he was able to grow a beard?

http://www.esquire.com/style/news/a49989/donald-trump-beard/

Can Self-Styled Alpha Male Donald Trump Not Grow a Beard?
Not so alpha after all.

That's right, Mr. Alpha Male McPissing Contest himself can't do the one thing that would truly make him a man: Sprout hair from his face. Actually, the whole notion that facial hair in any way defines masculinity is almost as absurd as the antiquated notion that we should celebrate some narrow-minded and dangerously patriarchal version of masculinity in the first place. But I digress.

[pinboy3niner]

6. ...

[demmiblue]

9. Come election day:

[Mendocino]

7. Simply orange isn't good enough for him.

He prefers toasted vermillion, because yuh know it's like mo... classy, yeah.

[world wide wally]

8. No wonder Trump and Boehner don't get along

They are jealous of each other

[rug]

11. Orange is the new Stupid.