Senator Orrin Hatch has joked that he wears hipster 'invisible glasses' after he was caught trying to remove a non-existent pair of specs from his face.

The Utah Republican was at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday when cameras captured him reaching up to take off the glasses he wasn't actually wearing.

Orrin, 83, ignored the slip up and went on to question Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen without hesitation.

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Senator Orrin Hatch has joked that he wears hipster 'invisible glasses' after he was caught trying to remove a non-existent pair of specs from his face

But Twitter was not so quick to let up.

The footage quickly went viral as many dubbed his specs 'magical Harry Potter-esque glasses'.

Orrin's office jokingly responded to the flurry of tweets, saying: 'Oh you mean his invisible glasses from Warby Parker? They’re new, you’ve probably never heard of them.'

He tweeted a screengrab of the Warby Parker website showing showing the fake so-called invisible specs.

Orrin, 83, ignored the slip up and went on to question Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen without hesitation

His office later confirmed that Orrin had accidentally left his glasses at home.

'Orrin Hatch IS wearing glasses. He got them at Diagon Alley! They are wizard glasses. Muggles can't see them!,' one Twitter user joked.

Another said in Hatch's defense: 'Everyone who thinks this is strange has never worn glasses.'

'I *cannot* make fun of this because I do it ALL THE TIME,' another user said.