Donald Trump’s second term as the 47th president of the United States has seen him continuously blast media outlets that he views as being unfair or critical. His latest tirade was against TIME magazinefor their choice of photo in a recent front cover, surrounding a piece on his role in securing peace in the Middle East.
Taking to Truth Social, a furious Trump wrote: “Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”
While it was simply unfortunate lighting that appeared to wipe out Trump’s famously blonde barnet, the thought of “disappearing” hair was certainly thought-provoking.
So Express.co.uk decided to ask artificial intelligence imaging tool Midjourney to imagine what Trump would actually look like being totally bald. And the results are, well, startling.
The images show Trump with a smooth head punctuated by the odd wayward strong of hair on the top and front.
There are also copious amounts of ear hair and shadows of small sideburns in front of his ears and a significant shine to the top of and sides of his head.
In another profile shot, he appears more like a ageing Lex Luthor from Superman – perhaps not an image he’d want.
Whether Trump would choose to commit to a look of this nature in the future is not known.
Trump’s hair has long-been a topic of discussion, particularly when he’s been pictured in buffeting winds.
In 2015 he joked about suspicions he wore hairpieces. He told a crowd in Alabama: “If it rains, I’ll take off my hat, and I’ll prove once and for all that it’s mine.”
And, despite fan conspiracies, most celebrity stylists suggest he does not have hair plugs and instead achieves his style with extensive combing.
Award-winning celebrity hair stylist Matthew Curtis told Gentleman’s Journal: “It’s definitely a strange creation – but it’s also a bafflingly cleverly crafted structure.” He added: “I’d call it a back-to-front mullet with a new romantic fringe.”
In 2016 Trump’s former hair stylist, who worked with him on the set of The Apprentice, claimed the businessman is very particular about his hair.
She also dispelled any rumours the reality TV star was wearing any hair pieces or had plugs, at least at that time.
She told The Mirror: “He has really long hair and he combs it back straight. He does it himself. It is real and it is his hair – he doesn’t have plugs.”