Over the last several days, you may have noticed Donald Trump’s hair appearing more often than before.
It’s been laughed at, mocked, analyzed and probably studied more than the hair of any president in American history. But after Trump made an appearance this week giving a speech with what looked to be a new, thick and flowing collection of golden locks, the internet decided it was time to bring in the AI and create a brand-new must-meme moment for the president.
And this time, it feels different.
The jokes are bigger. The videos are better. And the hair is flowing.
Whether Trump did or did not actually wear a wig that day—or has suddenly discovered some new presidential hair-care regimen—is up for discernment by people who apparently have more time to investigate presidential follicles than we do.
What is clear is that a series of absolutely hilarious Trump hair videos have started appearing all over social media. Some give him long, flowing golden hair blowing majestically in the wind. Others take it to completely ridiculous proportions. And the strange thing is, a lot of them are really well crafted. They’re funny, they’re harmless, and they’re another example of just how quickly one slightly unusual moment can now be transformed into an entire alternate reality by AI.
We already have the never-ending collection of AI-generated JD Vance videos, where the vice president has been getting away with quite a bit in his fictional digital life. Now Trump has his hair.
Maybe that’s one of the stranger things about living through this particular moment in history.
For hundreds of years, we’ve looked back at paintings and photographs of presidents and political leaders to see what they looked like and how people viewed them at the time. We have Washington crossing the Delaware, Lincoln sitting solemnly for photographs and Kennedy standing behind a podium.
A hundred years from now, somebody searching for Donald Trump might find him standing at a podium with six feet of golden hair blowing behind him while JD Vance is somewhere in the background doing something that absolutely never happened.
And maybe future historians won’t really know what any of our politicians looked like.
They’ll just know that, for a few days in the summer of 2026, the hair was flowing.
