Last week, I spent time in Laredo for a presidential campaign event with Donald Trump.

No matter how you feel about politics, Donald Trump’s hat earned a lot of attention, perhaps more than Trump himself. The reporters spent quite a bit of time discussing the hat with each other (and tweeting about it).

It might seem strange that he chose to wear a ball cap to a campaign event. In his defense, it was pretty hot and sunny out that afternoon. In the interest of looking like a Texan, maybe he should have worn a cowboy hat. A cowboy hat with his own picture on it:

Also, maybe we’re forgetting other presidents’ baseball hats. Who could forget the hat Richard Nixon wore during his resignation speech?

And history tells us that Abraham Lincoln took the same precautions against the hot sun during the Gettysburg Address:

Let’s do one more. How about Chester A. Arthur?

In Trump’s defense, I hadn’t brought a hat, so after all the time I spent in Laredo, I wound up sunburned. Point for Trump. No one can say he doesn’t plan ahead for time in the sun.

Trump’s hat sold out in two hours. He seems to know how to sell a hat.