{"id":51411,"date":"2018-03-27T11:26:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=51411"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:21:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:21:53","slug":"new-york-times-wright-state-historian-explains-why-donald-trump-may-be-a-mustache-lover-at-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/27\/new-york-times-wright-state-historian-explains-why-donald-trump-may-be-a-mustache-lover-at-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: Wright State historian explains why Donald Trump may be a &#8216;mustache lover at heart&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/22\/beard-bible\/oldstone-moore1-14843-120\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34987\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-34987\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2015\/01\/oldstone-moore1-14843-120-260x233.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Oldstone-Moore\" width=\"230\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a>In an op-ed column in the New York Times, Christopher Oldstone-Moore, senior lecturer of history at\u00a0Wright State and a facial hair expert,\u00a0examines one reason why John Bolton\u2019s appointment as national security adviser is surprising.<\/p>\n<p>Oldstone-Moore writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mr. Bolton does not conform to President Trump\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/donald-trump-is-holding-a-government-casting-call-hes-seeking-the-look\/2016\/12\/21\/703ae8a4-c795-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?utm_term=.b7cf1bcb9af8\">well-attested preference<\/a>\u00a0for hiring people from \u201ccentral casting\u201d \u2014 that is, svelte women and square-jawed, clean-shaven men. Insiders report that when Mr. Trump first assembled his cabinet, he rejected Mr. Bolton for secretary of state because of his eccentric brush mustache.<\/p>\n<p>But central casting, in the guise of Fox News, has encouraged the president to reconsider this prejudice, and having done so, he\u2019s unlikely to regret it. Trump may think he\u2019s mustache-averse, but what he\u2019s likely to realize over the course of the next few months is that this particular form of facial hair \u2014 in addition to Mr. Bolton\u2019s established track record for bellicosity \u2014 can signal a tendency toward the sort of masculine impulsiveness and aggression that is dear to Mr. Trump\u2019s own heart.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/26\/opinion\/bolton-trump-mustache.html\">Read Oldstone-Moore\u00a0column in the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed column in the New York Times, Christopher Oldstone-Moore, senior lecturer of history at\u00a0Wright State and a facial hair expert,\u00a0examines one reason why John Bolton\u2019s appointment as national security adviser is surprising. Oldstone-Moore writes: &#8220;Mr. Bolton does not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/27\/new-york-times-wright-state-historian-explains-why-donald-trump-may-be-a-mustache-lover-at-heart\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":34987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4863,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanities-and-cultural-studies","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51411"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51417,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51411\/revisions\/51417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}