John Rich Corrects Troll Over Donald Trump Hair Comment

John Rich has called out a former politician who made light of Donald Trump’s hair online.

The country singer is well-known for being open about his political views on X, formerly Twitter, and isn’t shy when it comes to showing his support for the former president.

Taking to X on Tuesday, Rich reshared a post from Claire McCaskill, a former United States Senator from Missouri—now an analyst at NBC News and MSNBC—who has been critical of Trump over the years.

“Can some clever person do a montage of all the weird different colors Trump dies his hair? Honestly, I feel like if he was a woman there would be books just about his hair,” she posted online. At the time of writing, it had been viewed 842,500 times.

Using the opportunity to take a dig at McCaskill, Rich, a longtime MAGA supporter, simply corrected her spelling, writing: “*dyes.”

Newsweek emailed spokespeople for Rich and Trump and reached out to McCaskill via NBC News for comment on Wednesday.

Rich wasn’t the only person to respond to the former politician’s post, with many defending the former president.

“Seriously? Hair color comments from the party of blue and pink hair?” one person wrote.

“Woman who lost her Senate seat says what?” said another, while someone else asked: “What’s your natural color Claire?”

However, others agreed with McCaskill’s point, with one X user writing: “For a long time it was colored ‘buttered popcorn’ and his face makeup has increasingly become more ‘burnt siena’.”

“@Pantone needs to do a numbered color spectrum swatch for Trump’s hair,” a different person commented.

After the backlash, McCaskill added: “News flash I dye my hair. But not orange, tangerine, or peach. And no bronzer….”

Trump’s hair is considered an iconic part of his look, having been mocked numerous times online in the past. A photo of him during an event in February led to online speculation that the former president is actually bald, although others suggested that the image had been manipulated.

In November, he was teased over his flyaway hair while attending the UFC 295 event in New York City. The former president sat ringside with UFC President Dana White and former FOX News host Tucker Carlson by his side. He also sat with his son Donald Jr. and singer, Kid Rock.

Someone snapped a photo of the president standing cage-side and while Trump was all smiles, Ron Filipkowski, an attorney and former federal prosecutor could not help but mock his fluffy hair.

“Must’ve been windy in there,” he joked on X. Others jumped on the bandwagon and poked fun at Trump in the replies.

Cosmetic surgeon Gary Linkov said in October that images of Trump taken over the years suggest he may have had five hair transplant surgeries.

“Did he get a hair transplant? It’s actually much more complicated than that and a great example of how hair restoration surgery has evolved over time,” Linkov said in a video posted to YouTube.

“The way the hair flops in his video, it looks to me like he might have had a right-sided rotational flap in the past as well,” Linkov said referring to a video of Trump in 2017. “Historically, those were sometimes done one to two months apart, to add further density to the front or mid-scalp.

“This can all help explain the complex combing that is involved in getting Donald Trump’s hair to look the way it does,” he said.

This isn’t the first time that Rich has stood up for Trump online. On May 30, he hit out at Democrats following the guilty verdict in Trump’s New York criminal trial.

“Only Communists put their political rivals in jail,” Rich wrote on X. The post has been viewed 764,400 times.

Trump, the first former president to be convicted of criminal charges is due to be sentenced on July 11. The former president was found guilty by a New York jury of 34 counts of falsifying business documents to hide “hush money” payments to Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 general election. He denies wrongdoing, claiming the trial was part of a witch hunt against him, and is considering an appeal.