Donald Trump's hair, the first speech after the defeat: why is he no longer blond?
Surprise at the White House when, at yesterday's press conference, the outgoing president showed up with a new hair color: an unusual silver tint
The cliché that people have to cut their hair or change their color after a disappointment in love would seem to inspire the new silver hair of Donald Trump, who yesterday spoke in public for the first time after the ratification of the defeat in the elections and he was presented, igniting social media, with a new look. From the famous canary yellow, the hair of the outgoing president has become silvery, almost white. And she became (at least on social media) the real protagonist of the press conference, held at the Rose Garden of the White House to illustrate the coronavirus response strategies ("We will not do any lockdowns", Trump has made clear). "At least Trump's hair appears to have admitted defeat," tweeted an Independent columnist; a fake account by Boris Johnson speculates that he "is trying to transform into Joe Biden", or that "the White House hairdresser has abandoned ship." And so on.
The last time Trump was seen blond was just 24 hours earlier, when he had gone in the rain and without an umbrella to lay a wreath at Arlington Heroes Cemetery on Veteran's Day. Yesterday the surprise.
It appears Donald Trump’s hair dye has conceded.
— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) November 13, 2020
Either Trump's hair colourist has jumped ship, or he's trying to gradually morph into Joe Biden and hope we don't notice. pic.twitter.com/Lcj64njivx
— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) November 13, 2020
Trump's historic hairstyle
Dyed with a supermarket dye, Just for Men, journalist Michael Wolff had revealed in his biography; perpetually styled in a mysterious carryover; Donald Trump's hair has had an almost absolute primacy in the images that have marked his presidency, often in the form of memes or caricatures. In 2016, in the full boom of the Pokemon Go! Video game, the app developers created two pokemon with yellow hairpieces, Yungoos and Gumshoos: they then denied that they were inspired by Trump, but the hairstyle is unmistakable.
In the recent investigation by the New York Times on the president's tax returns, the most incredible revelation, for many, was that among the expenses he deducted in recent years there were also 75,000 dollars a year of hairdressing: how is it possible? In a 2014 interview with Playboy Trump - already combed exactly like now - he swore: "I don't have my hair cut by anyone but Melania." It seems unlikely that you have maintained this role (and this intimacy) since they took office in the White House; the doubts about the president's hairstyle have never ceased. Is he a toupee? Is he a carryover? Was there a hair transplant? He rarely (but not unwillingly) talks about the subject, and with ostentatious self-irony. As in the electoral campaign, in 2015, when he let the ladies touch his head: "He is not a hairpiece." Or at the 2018 conservative meeting where he said from the stage, "I do everything to hide this patch of baldness."
On YouTube there are many videos entitled "Trump wig reveal", here is the Trump hairpiece, in which frame by frame we analyze the scenes in which he climbs on Air Force One, the hair disheveled by the wind, the exposed roots.
But none of these videos seem convincing. Never have so many conspiracy theories come and gone, about President Donald Trump, as when in June 2019 he showed up at a ceremony for the dead of the Virginia Beach shooting with his hair pulled back, for no apparent reason.
The most observant had certainly noticed that it is not the first time, recently, that Trump - without ever an explanation, of course - turns to dove. He had already done it this spring. Now a new mystery: why this look?
