What is the story behind Donald Trump's hair?

Donald Trump's hair is a mystery; it has been compared to cotton candy (by Jeb Bush and Stephen Colbert), soft serve ice cream at Dairy Queen (by Hillary Clinton on Saturday Night Live), a rare caterpillar, and other objects. While The Donald claims that he has a full head of natural hair, others doubt his story, suggesting that he has an involved comb over covering his baldness, that he wears a toupee, or that he has undergone surgery to reconstruct his hairline.

A toupee is the most common explanation for hair abnormalities among 70 year old men, and there is even an anonymous source claiming that Trump has a weave, but the evidence does not support this hypothesis. Trump’s unusual pattern of front-to-back hair over a layer of side-to-side hair is likely to be covering up a lack of hair underneath, which wouldn’t be necessary with a toupee or weave.

Trump consistently likes to show his front hairline, which seems to be atypically healthy for his age and genetics (photos show his father and brother balding) and forms a relatively straight line. This strongly supports hypotheses that involve surgical intervention, such as hair plug transplants or flap surgery. The analysis considers whether Trump had either flap surgery or hair plugs, but it's possible to have both, and even to have scalp reduction surgery in conjunction with one or both. Of the two, transplants are more common in general, but statements made by his family support the "flap surgery" hypothesis.

When considering all of the evidence together, the Rootclaim analysis concludes it is most likely that Trump’s unique hairstyle is the result of flap surgery (or possibly hair plug transplant surgery) combined with a complex comb over.