President Donald Trump appeared to debut a new bald spot Wednesday, much to the amusement of the internet.
Many took to social media to joke after photos and videos taken during a contentious Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa seemingly revealed a glowing bald patch.
“Someone please tell Trump we can see his shiny bald head underneath his cotton-floss hairdo,” one person joked on X.
“Just saw a side profile of Trump’s hairstyle and new hair color…he must have to sit in a chair for 3 hours each morning to manage that hairstyle to cover all of his bald spots and get it all hair sprayed,” another commented on Facebook.
Another quipped: “The bald spot inside his head is much larger!”
“Trump has a bald spot showing on the top of his head. Wonder who he is going to fire for allowing it to be shown,” one commentator questioned, while others jokingly wondered if it was “part of the golden dome.”
It wouldn’t be known from the way the social media reacted, but Trump’s meeting with Ramaphosa at the White House Wednesday centered on a much more serious subject.
The meeting, which Ramaphosa said was intended to “reset” the relationship between the two countries, appeared to go off the rails when Trump confronted Ramaphosa with inflammatory videos and news articles that he alleged to be evidence of “genocide” against white South Africans.
The president has criticized South African land reform, which aims to address the injustices of apartheid, as well as the International Court of Justice case accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. Trump canceled aid to the country, expelled its ambassador, and offered refuge to white minority Afrikaners based on racial discrimination claims that Pretoria says are unfounded.
After a friendly start to the meeting, Trump played a video showing Julian Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters party, chanting “Kill the Boer!” and what he claimed were burial sites of murdered white farmers.
Ramaphosa pushed back against Trump’s claims, calmly telling him, “that is not government policy,” and “our government policy is completely, completely against what he was saying,” referring to the opposition leader Malema.
Earlier in their meeting, the South African leader said that no matter what, the U.S. and South Africa “are joined at the hip and we need to be talking to them.” The U.S. is South Africa’s second biggest trading partner after China.
Trump was accompanied by Vice President JD Vance and South African born billionaire Elon Musk, who has previously accused Ramaphosa of pursuing anti-white policies, which he denies.
