The disclosure that Mr. Trump uses a prostate-related drug to maintain growth of his scalp hair, which has not been publicly known, appears to solve a riddle of why Mr. Trump has a very low level of prostate specific antigen, or PSA, a marker for prostate cancer. Mr. Trump takes a small dose of the drug, finasteride, which lowers PSA levels. Finasteride is marketed as Propecia to treat male-pattern baldness.

Dr. Bornstein said he also took finasteride and credited it for helping maintain his own shoulder-length hair and Mr. Trump’s hair. “He has all his hair,” Dr. Bornstein said. “I have all my hair.”

In the interviews, Dr. Bornstein said he refilled Mr. Trump’s prescriptions for a long-acting tetracycline, a common antibiotic, to control rosacea. The skin ailment can cause easy blushing or flushing with visible blood vessels. It also can spread over the face, and sometimes the chest and back. In different forms it can resemble acne and cause bumps.

Dr. Bornstein was invited to Mr. Trump’s inaugural, although he said it was not as pleasant an experience as he expected. He had to walk a long way to a spot where he thought there would be a chair — he said he has a painful back ailment and nerve damage to a leg — but when he got there, there was no chair.

He stood behind a tree and “never heard anyone speak because I was so uncomfortable from my back and being cold.” He felt, he said, “absolutely miserable.” It seemed to take forever to leave because of the heavy security, he said. The situation was the same at an inaugural ball where there were no tables and chairs. So, he said, unable to chat comfortably with others, he and his wife, Melissa, returned to their hotel early.

slugsrbad wrote:Trump is such a petty, vindictive bitch, that I'm afraid of using the political capital against Gorsuch. Can you imagine the insane choice he may place to replace RBG if she doesn't make it to 2020?

pacino wrote:true


stein 2020

pacino wrote:Bornstein dishes:

Dr. Bornstein is insane[/img]

JUburton wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:Trump is such a petty, vindictive bitch, that I'm afraid of using the political capital against Gorsuch. Can you imagine the insane choice he may place to replace RBG if she doesn't make it to 2020?

political capital doesn't exist anymore. there are two options...filibuster forever and make mitch go nuclear or give in and get to the same place if we need to replace an RBG or Kennedy. if we're nice here and fight in 2018 or 2019 they'll just go nuclear then.

JUburton wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:Trump is such a petty, vindictive bitch, that I'm afraid of using the political capital against Gorsuch. Can you imagine the insane choice he may place to replace RBG if she doesn't make it to 2020?

political capital doesn't exist anymore. there are two options...filibuster forever and make mitch go nuclear or give in and get to the same place if we need to replace an RBG or Kennedy. if we're nice here and fight in 2018 or 2019 they'll just go nuclear then.

06hawkalum wrote:

pacino wrote:true


stein 2020

Hope you aren't serious. Stein is another Putin pawn.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

JUburton wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:Trump is such a petty, vindictive bitch, that I'm afraid of using the political capital against Gorsuch. Can you imagine the insane choice he may place to replace RBG if she doesn't make it to 2020?

political capital doesn't exist anymore. there are two options...filibuster forever and make mitch go nuclear or give in and get to the same place if we need to replace an RBG or Kennedy. if we're nice here and fight in 2018 or 2019 they'll just go nuclear then.

Sadly I think this is correct. Memories are shorter than ever and there is no such thing as precedent.

Honestly, I'm okay with Mitch invoking the nuclear option. Gorsuch isn't a bad choice--he's not Thomas. And killing the filibuster for SCOTUS is the inevitable consequence of the short-sighted decision by Reid back in 2010. If anything, it might encourage Dem voter turnout in 2018 and prevent what looks like it might be a significant loss for us in the Senate midterms.

slugsrbad wrote:

JUburton wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:Trump is such a petty, vindictive bitch, that I'm afraid of using the political capital against Gorsuch. Can you imagine the insane choice he may place to replace RBG if she doesn't make it to 2020?

political capital doesn't exist anymore. there are two options...filibuster forever and make mitch go nuclear or give in and get to the same place if we need to replace an RBG or Kennedy. if we're nice here and fight in 2018 or 2019 they'll just go nuclear then.

Yea, you're probably right. Gorsuch IS qualified though. He is a well respected judge, very educated, well written, by all accounts he's a less bombastic Scalia. Under this Court composition Roe v. Wade is most likely safe, as is Marriage Equality. The biggest concern is that he used to clerk for Justice Kennedy and may be able to sway him more conservatively.

pacino wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

JUburton wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:Trump is such a petty, vindictive bitch, that I'm afraid of using the political capital against Gorsuch. Can you imagine the insane choice he may place to replace RBG if she doesn't make it to 2020?

political capital doesn't exist anymore. there are two options...filibuster forever and make mitch go nuclear or give in and get to the same place if we need to replace an RBG or Kennedy. if we're nice here and fight in 2018 or 2019 they'll just go nuclear then.

Sadly I think this is correct. Memories are shorter than ever and there is no such thing as precedent.

Honestly, I'm okay with Mitch invoking the nuclear option. Gorsuch isn't a bad choice--he's not Thomas. And killing the filibuster for SCOTUS is the inevitable consequence of the short-sighted decision by Reid back in 2010. If anything, it might encourage Dem voter turnout in 2018 and prevent what looks like it might be a significant loss for us in the Senate midterms.

Democratic voters don't seem to give two #$!&@ about the Supreme Court.

slugsrbad wrote:

JUburton wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:Trump is such a petty, vindictive bitch, that I'm afraid of using the political capital against Gorsuch. Can you imagine the insane choice he may place to replace RBG if she doesn't make it to 2020?

political capital doesn't exist anymore. there are two options...filibuster forever and make mitch go nuclear or give in and get to the same place if we need to replace an RBG or Kennedy. if we're nice here and fight in 2018 or 2019 they'll just go nuclear then.

Yea, you're probably right. Gorsuch IS qualified though. He is a well respected judge, very educated, well written, by all accounts he's a less bombastic Scalia. Under this Court composition Roe v. Wade is most likely safe, as is Marriage Equality. The biggest concern is that he used to clerk for Justice Kennedy and may be able to sway him more conservatively.

pacino wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

JUburton wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:Trump is such a petty, vindictive bitch, that I'm afraid of using the political capital against Gorsuch. Can you imagine the insane choice he may place to replace RBG if she doesn't make it to 2020?

political capital doesn't exist anymore. there are two options...filibuster forever and make mitch go nuclear or give in and get to the same place if we need to replace an RBG or Kennedy. if we're nice here and fight in 2018 or 2019 they'll just go nuclear then.

Yea, you're probably right. Gorsuch IS qualified though. He is a well respected judge, very educated, well written, by all accounts he's a less bombastic Scalia. Under this Court composition Roe v. Wade is most likely safe, as is Marriage Equality. The biggest concern is that he used to clerk for Justice Kennedy and may be able to sway him more conservatively.

in another circumstance i'd vote for him; having a supreme court seat stolen in the manner it was means it should be a no vote for any self-respecting Democrat.