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by toomuchtodo 497 days ago
Remember the ruckus because he wore a tan suit? Those were the days.

> U.S. Representative Peter King, a member of the Republican Party, deemed the suit's color combined with the subject matter of terrorism to be "unpresidential". He went on: "There's no way, I don't think, any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday. I mean, you have the world watching.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_tan_suit_controve...

2 comments

Thanks for the laugh. I don't remember when this happened. The horror... :)
Yeah, or when he wanted spicy mustard on a hot dog (correction, burger). https://youtu.be/cAvq12Sa3VE

I found that one especially funny, because dijon mustard isn't more expensive than regular mustard! I buy dijon mustard all the time, and at least at my local grocery store the price is always within about 5% of regular yellow mustard, sometimes even less. It's not something that is out of reach of most Americans.

We only remember these as Obama lacked the Trump reality distortion field.

  [Reporter] President Trump wore a tan suit.
  [Trump] Let's retake the Panama Canal.

  [Reporter] President Trump ordered a fancy mustard.
  [Trump] We're going to invade Greenland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy