--- title: Donald Trump Gets His Hair Messed Up on Jimmy Fallon’s Show description: Donald Trump allowed Jimmy Fallon to mess up his famous hair on national television during a Thursday taping of The Tonight Show. canonical: https://time.com/4496425/donald-trump-hair-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-16T00:47:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:49.104Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Gets His Hair Messed Up on Jimmy Fallon’s 'Tonight Show' og:description: He smiled as he let it happen og:url: https://time.com/4496425/donald-trump-hair-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbf51c067fe1f4ba/6988a65d97cdff6f576add31/trump7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Campaign 2016 Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Gets His Hair Messed Up on Jimmy Fallon’s 'Tonight Show' twitter:description: He smiled as he let it happen twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbf51c067fe1f4ba/6988a65d97cdff6f576add31/trump7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Gets His Hair Messed Up on Jimmy Fallon’s _The Tonight Show_ > Sponsored content. 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Donald Trump appears with host Jimmy Fallon during a taping of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Sept. 15, 2016. Andrew Lipovsky—NBC/AP  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Sep 16, 2016 12:47 AM UTC [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4494764/the-new-politics-of-late-night/?xid=homepage) allowed Jimmy Fallon to mess up his [famous hair](http://time.com/4339160/megyn-kelly-donald-trump-hair-real/) on national television during a Thursday taping of _The Tonight Show_. The Republican presidential nominee, whose segment airs Thursday night, sat and smiled as the talk show host ran his fingers through his locks at the end of the interview, according to the [Associated Press](http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article%5F2016-09-15-US--Campaign%202016-The%20Latest/id-d6bcc6e511ba4588a2ba8babab508eff). Fallon had asked Trump for permission to do something un-presidential with him, saying that Trump could be commander-in-chief the next time he visits the show, the AP reports. Trump tried to fix his coiffure afterwards but failed. \[[_AP_](http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article%5F2016-09-15-US--Campaign%202016-The%20Latest/id-d6bcc6e511ba4588a2ba8babab508eff)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4496425/donald-trump-hair-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4496425/donald-trump-hair-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Gets His Hair Messed Up on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show","datePublished":"2016-09-16T00:47:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:49.104Z","description":"He smiled as he let it happen","url":"https://time.com/4496425/donald-trump-hair-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbf51c067fe1f4ba/6988a65d97cdff6f576add31/trump7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbf51c067fe1f4ba/6988a65d97cdff6f576add31/trump7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Campaign 2016 Trump","caption":"Campaign 2016 Trump","creditText":"Andrew Lipovsky—NBC/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4496425/donald-trump-hair-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show/","name":"Donald Trump Gets His Hair Messed Up on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show"}}]}] ```