President Donald Trump this week insisted that he does not now, and never has, worn a wig — prompting his one-time biographer to reveal the elaborate "hair maintenance" regimen that actually goes into crafting his signature look.

Trump made the remarks during a Rose Garden address on Wednesday, recalling a 2024 rally held in what he described as "the worst weather I think I've ever experienced outside of maybe a hurricane we had in Florida one time." That event, he argued, disproved the long-running rumor that his distinctive hairstyle is the product of a wig.

"I went up to the speaker, and it was blowing so hard," Trump said. "You know, for years, I had to suffer with people saying, 'He wears a wig.' I don't wear a wig. But that night, they found out I did not wear a wig because if you did, it was not going to be on your head very long."

Michael Wolff is a veteran reporter and author best known for his extensive coverage of Trump's political career, including several books about his chaotic first term. His 2018 bestseller "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," which drew denials from the White House but sparked a global debate over access journalism, remains one of the most talked-about accounts of the early Trump administration. On the latest episode of the Daily Beast podcast "Inside Trump's Head," co-host Joanna Coles pressed Wolff for his response to Trump's wig denial. Wolff said the claim was technically accurate but obscured a stranger truth about the president's "hair maintenance."

"It is only equivocally not a wig, because I know that... he has what are called patches, and they call it the patch kit," Wolff explained. "And the patch kit is little, you know, small tufts of hair that match whatever color his hair might be at the time, and those are applied if needed and if necessary. So the maintenance of this hair is a major enterprise and has been for many years."

He continued: "And in my first book, in Fire and Fury, I described Ivanka... she had a kind of amused perspective on her father and she described the way that hair came together, of having to tease it in certain ways and having to pull it in certain ways and having to fluff it in certain ways. And so you kind of created this confection on top, which is it does look like one of those spun sugar things that you could put your hand in and pull it out and start eating it, and it would have no calorific value whatsoever."

Asked whether the patches were held in place by some form of glue, Wolff could only say that they are "pretty secure."

He also drew a comparison between Trump's wig denial and Richard Nixon's infamous "I am not a crook" declaration — a 1973 remark that has since become shorthand for a denial that draws more scrutiny than it settles.

"That's probably a pretty good indication," Wolff added. "If Trump is making a declarative statement, then the opposite is probably true."

Source: Alternet