Beard Liberation Front
7th November
Contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett @kmflett @keithbeard.bsky.social
Campaigners say Trump VP Elect JD Vance may bring the hirsute into disrepute
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that JD Vance, Trump’s Vice President Elect, may bring the hirsute into disrepute.
While Vance was originally a critic of Trump in the past five years or so he has adopted the hard right politics familiar in the UK from right-wing Tory MPs.
The last US Vice President with a beard was Charles Fairbanks from 1905-1909 when Roosevelt was President, well over a century ago
The campaigners say that no decision has been made yet on whether Vance will feature on the Beard of the Year longlist when it is announced on 15th November.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, beards at the top of US politics are very rare, rarer even than in the UK. However, unlike in Britain, in the US beard wearing amongst sections of the hard and far right is not uncommon. It does those like the BLF who seek to promote positive public images of the hirsute no favours at all. However we will be closely watching JD Vance in the days ahead to see what happens to his beard now he is Vice President Elect
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