There are a few things about Donald Trump that had withstood the test of time and always stuck out like a sore thumb every single time you see him — his putrid, shoddily-done spray tan that never quite gets his eyelids or his hairline, those lifted shoes that he uses in an attempt to make himself look taller than he really is but the only thing they actually accomplish is pushing his gut forward and making him stand as though he’s got a corn cob up the rear end, and of course, that cotton candy-esque fluff of rat bedding, equally as florescent orange as his face, that he passes off as an excuse for really great hair.
Frankly, these traits have become synonymous with the guy that’s “running” our country and they’re impossible to ignore.
However, if you had the displeasure of tuning in to Donald’s White House coronavirus briefing on Monday, chances are you noticed, like many other social media users, that Trump’s trademark cantaloupe-colored hairdo was now rather gray looking.
Did trump just go from yellow hair to gray hair over night?!
— J. Marie (@GoalDigginRho) March 30, 2020
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Got to hand it to the Coronavirus, it’s doing something the Mueller investigation and impeachment trial failed to do – give Donald Trump grey hair 😂😂😂😂😂#Covid19inSA#COVID19 pic.twitter.com/SJXvCuGRpN
— Thabo Ntsako Baloyi (@MrBaloyiTheOne) March 30, 2020
I watched like 3 minutes of your press conference yesterday. But before I shut it off I noticed you went from yellow hair to grey hair and@from@orange face to red face. Did you have a makeover during our pandemic?
— The Anti Cult 45 (@rosielapote) March 31, 2020
Have your hairdressers and tanners not been able to touch you up today?? The grey hair is very visible along with pale skin. Careful though you need more hair spray. It’s in danger of flying up in the air. Hilarious. 🤣🤣
— AnnieMacF (@AnnieMacF2) March 30, 2020
Some Twitter users have theorized that Donald’s sudden change in hair color is a political tactic, while some believe it may be a result of social distancing guidelines preventing him from seeing his hairdresser, and still others seem to think that the stress of this pandemic is finally weighing on Trump in a physical way.
But Alexis Coe, historian and author of New York Times bestseller You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington, recently weighed in on the subject and revealed that the latter option hypothesized by social media users is likely the farthest thing from the truth.
“What I think might be happening is a kind of manipulation of the American public in which he is attempting to show citizens that he is suffering as well,” Coe explained. “It’s about optics—Trump is trying to distract from his late, dangerous, and sometimes fatal messaging around coronavirus.”
Coe went on to explain that if the new hair hue was a purposeful tactic on Trump’s part, then he wouldn’t be the first to attempt to pull off a physical change to alter the way the public feels about him.
“Gentlemen, you must pardon me, for I have grown not only gray but blind in the service of my country,” George Washington declared at the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783 as he donned a pair of glasses for the first time to read a letter aloud to his troops.
“No one had ever seen him wear glasses, and his soldiers were incredibly moved by it,” Coe revealed. “They interpreted it as a gesture [where] Washington was saying he understood their grievances and felt them too. It is one of the most well-known stories about Washington, and presidents tend to look to him for inspiration.” However, she goes on to point out that Trump likely isn’t drawing from precedent with his recent hair change, as he’s never been one to show much respect for those who came before him.
“Trump has had the same iconic look, this caricature of a businessman, for decades,” the history expert adds. “He wants to be easily recognized in the same way a car salesman does, so this is a surprising departure for his brand. Trump is loath to change his physical appearance, so he likely listened to his aides who told him he needed to do something dramatic.”
You can pretty much guarantee that everything Donald Trump does is in some way an attempt to manipulate us all while he continues to live his best life. Even his hair.
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