Donald Trump’s estranged niece has likened his suddenly voluminous hairstyle to Hermey the Elf from the animated “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” claiming the recent hair obsession mirrored one his late father went through as he struggled with dementia.

Speaking on SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah’s YouTube show, Mary Trump reacted to viral online speculation surrounding the president’s hairstyle that was sparked during a campaign rally in Nevada this week.

“I’m not going to say anything about whether it looked good or not. I don't really care,” Mary Trump told Obeidallah. “However, he looked like Herby the Dentist from ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ — that’s what, that was my takeaway.”

She went on to draw parallels between the president’s hair consciousness and his late father, developer Fred Trump. According to Mary, the elder Trump grew increasingly preoccupied with his hair loss after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, eventually wearing an ill-fitting toupee and dyeing both his hair and mustache.

“He would leave the dye on too long. So he would end up with a magenta mustache,” she said, adding that family members, including Donald Trump, found the situation embarrassing. “And now here’s Donald potentially... being all obsessed about his hair kind of like his dad.”

Obeidallah noted during the interview that the elder Trump began showing signs of dementia around the same age Donald Trump is now, questioning whether the sudden shift in appearance could be connected to cognitive changes.

President Trump has repeatedly touted having aced cognitive tests administered by his White House health team.

The commentary follows a flurry of viral reactions to the president’s speech at the Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa in Las Vegas, where he spoke on economic policies, endorsed local Republican candidates and referred to Canadian leadership as “nasty.”

Social media users quickly began debating the source of the president's updated look.

“Is Trump rocking a wig, or what the hell is going on here?” one user user asked, after posting: “Trump's hair, uh, has a lot more volume than normal.”

Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who previously voted to impeach Trump, also weighed in, posting on X: “Trump has a weave!!”

The official Democratic National Committee account posted a photo of the president from three months earlier featuring a flatter, slicked-back style to emphasize the contrast.

Supporters defended the president’s appearance.

“This is proof that President Trump is aging in reverse,” one supporter wrote on X. “His hair looks absolutely amazing today.”

The president has previously acknowledged his efforts to maintain his signature hairstyle. At a CPAC conference in 2018, he admitted to the audience, “I try like hell to hide the bald spot, folks. I work at it.”

During a 2015 campaign stop in South Carolina, he brought a woman on stage to verify his hair was real, and in 2016, he famously allowed host Jimmy Fallon to mess up his hair during an appearance on The Tonight Show.

The Independent has contacted the White House for comment.