PHOTOS: The truth about whether Donald Trump is really bald
Thus we might get an answer to a question that has vexed the globe for decades: Is Donald Trump really, actually, bald underneath that combover?
A White House spokesman said Trump's hair was "fake."
Could that be true?
Here is the best photographic evidence on the current state of the TrumpDome.
Trump's hair is styled in a way that strongly suggests he is trying to disguise the fact that he is actually bald. (Note to all bald men: No one is fooled by the combover. Just trim it short.)
But the best we can say is that Trump is not technically bald, but he probably is thinning.
Surprisingly, Trump has been fairly open to challenges about his hair.
In 2010 he appeared on the Ryan Seacrest radio show and let a producer touch his hair. He also raised the front of his hair to display his hairline. Here is a gif of the crucial sequence:
And a sharper screengrab:
You can see the full video here. It looks as if he has a full head of hair. Albeit very long hair, styled in a way that appears to place a large layer of hair on top of the hair growing immediately out of his head. His hair has two layers, in other words.
On the campaign trail in June, he again let a stranger touch his hair:
This moment came when he was talking in a press conference about the people who don't like him. "Maybe people don't like my smile. Maybe they don't like my hair - which is real by the way, look at that sucker!" He lifted his fringe to show that hair is growing out of the front of his head. The press lapped it up.
Trump continued, insisting that a woman from the audience get on stage and examine his head with her fingers.
"Is that sucker real?"
"It's thin but it's real" she replied.
At another campaign stop, Trump again talked about his hair. In this Business Insider video you can see he invites yet another woman to look at his head and asks her if it's real. "It is," she says, but she doesn't touch it.
Professionals disagree
In the 1993 highly-unauthorized book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, the Donald allegedly confronted his then-wife, Ivana, over a botched scalp flap surgery by a plastic surgeon she had recommended.
"Your fucking doctor has ruined me!" Trump purportedly screamed at her, before pulling out fistfuls of her hair.
Trump has, to say the least, denied these allegations.
"I don't believe Trump has had a transplant of any type, or that he wears a hair piece. To me, it looks like a case of the classic old "double combover." I would hazard a guess that Donald's daily hair styling routine involves some rigorous back-combing, followed by teasing hair from the left of his head over to the right side-then, teasing sections from the back over the front, finishing off with an Ozone-busting fix of industrial strength hairspray.
That theory is bolstered by this series of photos of Trump landing at his Scottish golf course in a helicopter on a windy day. His hair gets blow around. It certainly isn't as thick as he'd like it to be. But it doesn't reveal actual baldness or, as many suspect a wig or toupee.
Verdict: He's not bald. Just weird.