One of the biggest longstanding mysteries about Donald Trump has concerned his hair. Is it real? Why does it look like that? And what care does the president apply to it? Why is it sometimes red, sometimes orange, and sometimes white?
Regime Change, the new book about Trump’s second presidency by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, shares some details about Trump and his hair.
According to The Daily Beast, the book reports that “the vain 80-year-old president, whose distinctive bouffant hairstyle has defied logic and gravity for years, reportedly has one of his closest aides carry a pair of scissors at all times in case he needs to trim the back of his hair.”
Donald Trump has to take matters into his own hands when he decides his hair is getting out of control, according to a new book. https://t.co/IWs2QRCuzL
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 23, 2026
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The aide in question is Walt Nauta, who at one point was indicted alongside Trump in the Florida documents case.
“Trump had every comfort close at hand. His longtime aide and personal valet, Walt Nauta (who bore the title director of Oval Office operations), would carry around not just the usual personal items—makeup, hairspray, Tic Tacs—but also scissors so that Trump could snip his hair when he found that it was getting too long in the back, poking over his collar,” the book says.
Nauta’s job, the Beast said, also had another responsibility: To keep a steamer nearby to “iron out the creases” in the president’s suits, sometimes while Trump was wearing them. Trump, the book says, once ““offered Nauta’s steaming services” to outgoing British Prime Minister Kier Starmer.
There were reports during Trump’s first term that Hope Hicks, then a close aide to Trump, was tasked with ironing the president’s clothes as he wore them. And Stephanie Grisham, who was Melania Trump’s chief of staff in Trump’s first term and later turned on the Trumps, wrote in her memoir that Trump would sometimes cut his own hair, using “a huge pair of scissors that could probably cut a ribbon at an opening of one of his properties.”
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