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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTOI correspondent from Washington<\/span>: Donald Trump has spent decades insisting that his hair doesn\u2019t just embody style: it is a work of art, a triumph of nature over gravity, and often, an engineering feat involving a comb. This week, however, the 80-year old US President\u2019s famous thinning thatch became the mane (itals) event of a national discourse.Trump appeared in Las Vegas on Wednesday with a hairstyle that looked noticeably brighter, fuller, and more voluminous than it had the previous day. It achieved new colors and dimensions over the next few days. Whether it was flattering LED lighting (the initial White House explanation), styling, extensions, or a wig, it generated some hair-raising and hair-splitting speculation as Americans briefly set aside arguments over the economy, foreign policy and immigration to ask: Hair today, gone tomorrow?The internet, where facts don\u2019t stand a chance against jokes and memes, decided, \u201cwe can\u2019t be LED up a garden path\u201d and blew the bouffant to monstrous proportions. Within hours, social media was awash with AI-generated Trump sporting gigantic 1980s pompadours, wildly exaggerated wigs, tornado-shaped towers, flowing locks, and enough blonde volume to qualify for a wind advisory.Trump\u2019s cabinet members were pulled into the net and given extravagant makeovers with locks and mops, buns and braids, as trolls went on a hairy-fairy excursion. \u201cMake Big Hair Great Again\u201d became an instant slogan. Another meme riffed on Phil Collins: \u201cI can feel it coming in the hair tonight.\u201d And, because no geopolitical crisis is complete without a bad pun, the Strait of Hormuz became the \u201cStrait of Hairmuz,\u201d and worse, \u201cStrait of Hair Mousse.\u201dThe march of follicles was triggered in part because Trump himself has spent years supplying the punchlines. In 2011, he explained that he washes his hair with Head & Shoulders and lets it air-dry, insisting that his trademark style was not really a comb-over but something \u201ca little bit forward and back\u201d \u2013 which probably explains his tariff policy and war on Iran. His coiffure was not just hair \u2013 it became a glowing symbol of his brand, held together by sheer willpower, industrial-grade lacquer, and a refusal to let any strand part ways with the scalp. He also called his hair a \u201cwork of art\u201d and described it as \u201cperfect,\u201d leaving comedians asking: does he ever have a bad hair day?There is something almost historically appropriate about Trump\u2019s ongoing hair loom and doom. Presidents have been mocked for their clothes, voices, ears, eyebrows and facial expressions. But 45-47 has made himself more joke-ready than any president in American history because he has turned his own appearance, personality, and personal mythology into part of his political offensive. His grandiose claims, his demeaning nicknames for rivals, his obsession with television, his love of branding and his extraordinary pride and vanity in his own appearance have made him vulnerable to the oldest rule of comedy: Bigger the self-importance, more lethal the jokes.And perhaps that is the final lesson from the Great Trump Hair Fair of 2026. Presidents may control armies, nuclear arsenals and the global economy. They may command the attention of Congress, Wall Street, and foreign capitals. But no one – not even Donald Trump – can control a nation equipped with AI, Photoshop, social media, and an unlimited supply of hair puns.<\/div>\n Donald Trump speaks at an event at the Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa in Las Vegas TOI correspondent from Washington: Donald Trump has spent decades insisting that his hair doesn\u2019t just embody style: it is a work of art, a triumph of nature over gravity, and often, an engineering feat involving a comb. 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