So what do I think about Donald Trump being ahead? His attributes as a politician obviously remain to be seen.

For your money and for mine, I wouldn't throw the dice, right? But why should I besmirch his already rather shadowy reputation?

That would be despicable, wouldn't it? Follow Bennett on Twitter. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories.

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He's orange. We get it, and the jokes are old. Now, we're going to examine why and how his skin become such a thoroughly investigated topic of conversation.

Is Donald Trump's skin tone the result of his friendship with self-tanning executives? Mother Jones reports that Trump is close pals with tanning mogul Steve Hilbert, who became CEO of New Sunshine, a line of tanning products, including lotions and bronzers endorsed by the Kardashians.

Trump's friendship with Hilbert reportedly began around , which is close to the time the world started to notice his perpetually tawny glow. Their friendship extended to business deals: Trump promoted two of Hilbert's New Sunshine products on Celebrity Apprentice in and in Though the endorsement would come into question during a lawsuit Hilbert was slapped with from his former business partner, billionaire William Menard, Hilbert and his wife, Tomisue, reportedly remained close with the Trumps and endorsed Donald for president in Jason Kelly, a makeup artist who previously worked with Donald Trump, says that during the time period that he beautified the Donald and other candidates at the Republican National Convention, he didn't notice anything unusual about Trump's skin at all.

Kelly also noted that when he first encountered Trump, "He didn't have any liquid or cream foundation on, or spray tan actually. It takes work to get what we've come to appreciate as the POTUS' signature Titian glow — and reports suggest that he does that work himself.

Kriss Blevens was a makeup artist for every presidential candidates in the New Hampshire primaries, except Donald Trump. She told Racked that she never saw Trump with a makeup artist or hair stylist.

He's expressing himself in his own style, and I'd never want to interfere with that. Maybe a little blotting powder.

He has a signature look he carries with him that is his look, and that's far better than changing it up all the time. In January , Politico reported that Trump did have a makeup artist on the federal payroll, but that artist never spruced him up, instead focusing on members of his cabinet, including Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway.

Republican National Convention makeup artist Jason Kelly told Harper's Bazaar that Trump rarely got his makeup done in the events leading up to his presidency.

However, Kelly thinks something has changed since the campaign. Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know right now. Please enter a valid email address.

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