# Donald Trumps Hair Donald Trumps Hair is a decades-running joke complex about the U.S. president's elaborate combed-over blond hairstyle, mixing speculation about scalp reduction surgery, alleged weaves and viral clips of the hair blowing sideways. The bit has been running since at least the 1980s and got a huge second life during his 2016 campaign and presidency. ## Overview Donald Trumps Hair is the ongoing internet joke about United States President Donald Trump's blond, swept-over hairstyle, which sits so architecturally on his head that people have argued for years about whether it's a weave, a transplant, a comb-over or all three[5]. The look was described by Vanity Fair as a hair structure so complex that even calling it a 'part' understates the engineering involved[1]. The meme covers three overlapping strands: reporters analyzing old photos to track hairline changes[1], scalp reduction surgery rumors from a 1993 biography[4], and short viral clips where wind, water or a talk show host disturbs the shape[5]. The 2011 Rolling Stone profile in which Trump himself walked through his hair care routine gave the joke a rare on-record primary source[2]. ## How It Spread In May 2011, Rolling Stone published a profile in which Trump described his own hair as being the patriotic shade of amber waves of grain and talked at length about his shirt, tie and cuff link businesses in the same breath[2]. Five years later, on May 24th, 2016, Gawker ran an investigation titled 'Is Donald Trump's Hair a $60,000 Weave,' claiming a tipster had linked Trump to a hair restoration clinic called Ivari International that reportedly operated from inside Trump Tower[3]. The hair became a late night flashpoint on September 15th, 2016, when Jimmy Fallon ruffled Trump's hair on The Tonight Show, a moment critics said normalized his campaign; Fallon later admitted the backlash hurt his feelings and that he understood why viewers were angry[6]. Days later, Super Deluxe editor Vic Berger remixed the ruffle into a widely shared edit that racked up over 363,000 views[5]. The biggest single viral hit came on February 5th, 2018, when the YouTube channel strangervideo posted 'Donald Trump Wig Reveal,' a clip of Trump boarding Air Force One as wind lifted the back of his hair to expose his scalp, drawing more than 4.1 million views in three days[7]. Former Gawker reporter Ashley Feinberg tweeted a GIF of the moment captioned 'imagine what those locks look like soaking wet,' pulling in over 5,000 retweets in 48 hours[8]. Two days later, Jimmy Kimmel Live aired a segment showing the clip to hairstylists, one of whom concluded that 'someone did not glue that down tight enough,' and the video reached #7 on YouTube's trending list[9]. ## How to Use The joke is a running attribution rather than a fixed template. People typically post a fresh photo or video of Trump in wind or rain, tag it with a comb-over caption, or overlay it with speculation about weaves and glue. Reaction tweets often riff on the shape being architectural, structural or aerodynamic, and comparisons to yellow cotton candy, corn silk or a nesting animal are common conventions[5]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Donald Trumps Hair? It's the long-running joke and speculation about Donald Trump's blond swept-over hairstyle, covering everything from scalp surgery rumors to viral clips of the hair blowing sideways[5]. ### Where did Donald Trumps Hair come from? Hair speculation goes back to 1970s tabloid coverage, with the earliest widely cited photo dating to 1976 when Trump presented plans for the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan[1]. The 1993 biography Lost Tycoon then added the scalp reduction surgery claim[4]. ### What does Donald Trumps Hair mean? The bit is used as visual shorthand for Trump himself, and as a running conversation about whether the hair is a comb-over, a weave, a transplant, or the product of a patented microcylinder intervention as Gawker's 2016 investigation alleged[3]. ### How do you use Donald Trumps Hair? People typically post fresh clips of Trump in wind or rain and caption them with weave or glue jokes, echoing the framing of the February 2018 'Wig Reveal' clip that pulled 4.1 million views in three days[7]. ### Is Donald Trumps Hair still popular? It's a classic recurring joke rather than a trending format, with big spikes tied to specific moments like Jimmy Fallon's 2016 hair ruffle and the 2018 Air Force One wind clip that hit #7 on YouTube trending[9]. ## References 1. [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/photos/2015/09/an-illustrated-history-of-donald-trumps-hair]() 2. [https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/donald-trump-lets-his-hair-down-20110511]() 3. [https://gawker.com/is-donald-trumps-hair-a-60-000-weave-a-gawker-invest-1777581357]() 4. [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-scalp-reduction-surgery_n_57431ef8e4b045cc9a70dd23]() 5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/donald-trumps-hair]() 6. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-interview-trump.html]() 7. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIGcosb22_Y]() 8. [https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/960974018210271232]() 9. 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