--- title: The Internet Has Jokes About Donald Trump's Windblown Hair description: President Donald Trump's hair, photographed while boarding Air Force One, has mesmerized the internet. canonical: https://time.com/5229937/donald-trump-wind-hair-photos/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-05T21:22:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:51:54.740Z og:title: The Internet Can't Stop Cracking Jokes About Donald Trump's Hair Blowing in the Wind og:description: The internet has no mercy og:url: https://time.com/5229937/donald-trump-wind-hair-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf7c332522712282a/69892cf3656a3fd107bd4132/donald-trump-hair1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5568 og:image:height: 3132 og:image:alt: donald-trump-hair-wind og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Can't Stop Cracking Jokes About Donald Trump's Hair Blowing in the Wind twitter:description: The internet has no mercy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf7c332522712282a/69892cf3656a3fd107bd4132/donald-trump-hair1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Can't Stop Cracking Jokes About Donald Trump's Hair Blowing in the Wind > Sponsored content. 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US President Donald Trump's blows in the wind as he boards Air Force One before flying to Vietnam to attend the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit at Beijing airport on November 10, 2017. Jim Watson—AFP/Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 5, 2018 9:22 PM UTC An unfortunately-timed photo for President Donald Trump became the [latest fodder for jokes](http://time.com/5223501/donald-trump-amazon-post-office-twitter/) on Twitter. While boarding Air Force One en route from Maryland to West Virginia to discuss tax reform on Thursday, Trump found his [windblown hair](http://time.com/4691684/david-letterman-trump-hair/) snapped by photographers and captured on video. Trump, who famously let late-night host Jimmy Fallon tousle his hair and has [long faced jokes about it](http://time.com/5139527/jimmy-kimmel-stylists-on-trump-viral-hair/), may not have been amused, but the photo led Twitter users to crack jokes. > [](https://twitter.com/AsheSchow/status/981952069904060417) > [](https://twitter.com/almightygod/status/981965177397698561) > [](https://twitter.com/Chinchuleen/status/981946294674575360) > [](https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/981952923952386048) > [](https://twitter.com/riotwomennn/status/981975886844039168) > [](https://twitter.com/rubicon524/status/981977212781056000) Not everyone found the humor to be in good fun, however. > [](https://twitter.com/PastorLandino/status/981889884578295809) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5229937/donald-trump-wind-hair-photos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5229937/donald-trump-wind-hair-photos/"},"headline":"The Internet Can't Stop Cracking Jokes About Donald Trump's Hair Blowing in the Wind","datePublished":"2018-04-05T21:22:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:51:54.740Z","description":"The internet has no mercy","url":"https://time.com/5229937/donald-trump-wind-hair-photos/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf7c332522712282a/69892cf3656a3fd107bd4132/donald-trump-hair1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf7c332522712282a/69892cf3656a3fd107bd4132/donald-trump-hair1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"donald-trump-hair-wind","caption":"donald-trump-hair-wind","creditText":"Jim Watson—AFP/Getty Images","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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5229937/donald-trump-wind-hair-photos/","name":"The Internet Can't Stop Cracking Jokes About Donald Trump's Hair Blowing in the Wind"}}]}] ```