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For those not appearing to get it, Trump allowed his sycophants to berate Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit in his White House meeting. Folks are treating Trump's attire faux pas accordingly.
More than that, Trump isn't in the middle of actively fighting a fucking war, and a funeral has one single, solitary wardrobe expectation: wear black.*
Even if not for that utter dumpster fire of a press conference, I also remember the fuss made about Obama's tan suit that he just happened to wear during a televised event (which was not a funeral). On every level, this clown deserves mockery.
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not universal to all kinds of funeral ceremonies, I know. this, however, was one of those funerals.
a funeral has one single, solitary wardrobe expectation: wear black.*
You're not wrong. I put special instructions (Canadian Tuxedo) in my will.
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Honestly, now that we're literally sending people to concentration camps, I have zero fucks to give about this superficial bullshit. No one gives a shit about what Hitler wore at the '36 Olympics, and no one's gonna care what this asshole wore to a funeral.
It's purely to be on the attack. Republicans showed for the last fifteen years if you're performatively aggressive against the opposition eventually you get what you want.
You don't have to hate Trump or his suit color. Just love democracy and socialism and the working class. If this gets some apolitical conservative people to not vote for the Republicans then awesome.
The thing was that they resorted to the tan suit and terrorist first bump bullshit because Obama gave them so little to work with. For Trump you didn't need to waste everyone's time when his administration is ignoring court orders, arresting judges, declaring warrants and due process unnecessary, and tanking the economy.
The tan suit stuff may have helped energize the base by preaching to the choir, but everyone else found it ridiculous and made them skeptical of conservative media. When you are inundated nearly daily with real terrible stuff, no need to undermine credibility by latching into this sort of fluff.
I agree, and once would have dismissed the sociopolitical pragmatism described by the commenter above as “lowering our discourse to their level” or something of the sort.
I eventually realized that this instinctive criticism was valid only if they were still growing as people, and capable of more than what they are now. The assumption is that doing so might convince them to “elevate their discourse,” if only to save face.
But what I’ve come to realize is that this was far too much to expect. By all the evidence we have to date, these folks never advanced far beyond the emotional maturity of the average middle schooler. At this level of maturity, superficial and public humiliation is quite literally the most serious attack, since it bloodies sharky waters.
Yes it’s pathetic, and yes “stooping to their level” feels gross, but Republican voters are only enthused by policies which benefit them directly or hurt others. Perceived power matters a lot, and tends to be attached directly to explicit expressions of it, so a public humiliation of trump for an otherwise petty and irrelevant issue (especially by someone he can’t touch without losing a chunk of his base) succeeds in making him look weak, and making Trump look weak is directly correlated with his voters’ loss of motivation (see RWA personality type/disorder; it’s fascinating). Enough of that framing will cause his most die-hard voters to lose faith in him and seek out somebody stronger. That is, to de-motivate a current right-wing conservative voter, we must accept that petty “mean girl” tactics are the only language they understand, due to their arrested emotional development.
TLDR: crass pragmatism is warranted. Small-mindedness is their first language, often the only one they understand, so we must learn to roll our sleeves up and speak it back to them, if only to prevent them from spreading it to future generations.
Edit: corrected swype errors.
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Probably Hugo Boss if I had to guess.
This was not an accident. First, it gets him to stand out from the crowd, draw all the attention to himself, and make it all about him which is what he lives and breathes for. Second, it gets the media to focus on something other than him eliminating due process, having judges arrested, using the DOJ to attack perceived enemies, deporting US citizens, and completely ignoring court rulings while those who have the power to stop it sit back and either do nothing or actively support it.
gets the media to focus on something other
I didn't see the clown makeup until you mentioned it; but that's what it is, isn't it? The circus continues.
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Yeah, it's the suit that's embarrassing, not the "239 lbs" of rancid garbage sloshing around inside.
No fucking way he's less than 250lbs
That's why they put it in quotes. During his first term his personal doctor listed Trump's weight at 239, which everyone with at least one functioning eyeball knows is complete horseshit. But naturally he lies about that like he lies about everything else
Both
Thank god it wasn’t tan.
The tan suit had mustard stains on it, otherwise...
This whole thing is stupid.
Apparently the dress code is dark suit + black tie. So this is fine. Trump's tie was blue
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This is the sort of news that does nothing but bring attention away from real problems. Blame these idiots for being a bunch of liars and criminals (including the pope) not for wearing the wrong suit color.
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Just one in my lifetime I wanna see the rapists, the convicted felons, the wannabe gangsters elected to office, the people linked to Jeffrey Epstein, the presidents who put personal interest before country, the tactless lying connen grifters and the orange buffoons leave this plane before the good men with some semblance of balance, tolerance, moderation and compassion.
Just once in my lifetime.
At least kissinger finally kicked it
How did he even get an invite?
Remember when Obama rocked that tan suit yall?
Because of Trump the world thinks us a fool.
Don't try to shame 47, he has no shame. I can't even watch the UK office because of second hand cringe, but he would probably take notes
It's not about shaming Trump. Like you say, he has no shame. It's about exhausting his base. It takes a second to make fun of him for it.
Only poor people wear black suits (he thinks to himself).
Well he's finally being held to the same standards as Obama
Wdym? Obama pulled it off. Trump just looks tired. And angry. But more tired.
Honestly, I don't give a fuck. He's doing genuinely despicable things that are much more deserving of the media's limited time.
Funerals are for the family. Not the dead person. You won’t care because you’re dead, I’m sure his close friends and relatives cared quite a bit.
..... and they had a never ending media fiasco for a president wearing a tan suit ... and it didn't have anything to do with a funeral or anything, a black president just decided one day to wear a tan suit!
Meanwhile an orange president is given directions and suggestion as to what to wear to an international funeral for a prominent figure and he ignores all protocols because he is just that dense.
He's laughing at all of us because he's thumbing his nose at the world to let everyone know he can do whatever he pleases without any regard for decency or respect ... for himself, his country, the living or even for the dead.
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