Politics & Government

Does Donald Trump Wear a Toupee?

"This is getting crazy," Trump said at the press conference about his alleged toupee.


A seemingly exasperated Donald Trump stepped up to the podium to address his hair at a press conference on Thursday. “You have to inspect it,” he said.

Donald Trump’s latest television event addressed the issue of whether his hair is real. “I don’t wear a toupee. It’s my hair. I swear,” Trump said, pointing to an article in the New York Times that briefly mentioned the issue.

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Asking a member of the audience — whom Trump claimed he’d never before met — to come on stage and see the hair up close, the Republican presidential candidate allowed the woman to move her hands around the edges of his mane without actually touching it.

Trump warned the woman, saying, “We don’t want to mess it up too much because I do use hair spray.”

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The conversation between Trump and the woman was often indecipherable as he moved away and toward the microphone. Trump then asked her to step to the podium and attest that his hair looked real.

“Say it, please,” he asked.

“Yes, I believe it is,” the woman said.

At one point during the event, Trump threw up hands and said, “This is getting crazy.”

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