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Amber Jamieson

Bad hombre v bad ombré: Trump's debate vow ignites storm of hair memes

Kim Kardashian was at the forefront of the ombré trend in 2013.
Kim Kardashian was at the forefront of the ombré trend in 2013. Photograph: David X Prutting/BFAnyc.com/REX

The 2016 presidential debate season is now officially over – but not before things got a little hairy.

Trump vows to rid US of ‘bad hombres’ – video

Donald Trump vowed to rid the country of “bad hombres” – using the Spanish word for “man” in a reference to Latino immigrants.

“One of my first acts will be to get all of the drug lords, all of the bad ones – we have some bad, bad people in this country that have to go out ... we have some bad hombres here, and we’re going to get them out,” said Trump.

The internet was dye-ing to make jokes about ombré, the hairstyle with multiple shades of colour, where hair dyed darker at the roots gradually lightens. Ombré’d hair was everywhere from Beyoncé to cake in 2013.

Comedy actress Noël Wells chimed in:

Republican strategist and CNN contributor Ana Navarro offered up a quick Spanish lesson:

Merriam-Webster also wrote up a definition between hombre/ombré after seeing a surge in definition searches on their site.

The number of people searching for “hombre” soared 120,000% during the hour of the debate, while ombre/ombré (leave off the accent and it’s an 18th-century card game) also saw a spike, reports Merriam-Webster.

Of course, the shade extended to Trump’s own famously coiffed locks.

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