He’s all dressed up today
He’s all dressed up today
He’s all dressed up today
I don't care about the blue suit, just the missing steel bracelets.
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Ah the middle of the room where everyone can see and hear us, excellent spot for a private meeting.
Still better than over Twitter
These conversations are usually held over Signal.
I fucking hate formalwear rules.
Dark blue should count as a "dark suit", shouldn't it? If the expectation was "wear a black suit", then the rule should have been "wear a black suit".
Even just having to wear a suit at all is stupid: "You must wear a special kind of jacket that doesn't properly close in front, creating a little window through which people can see the shirt you're wearing underneath, and a ribbon of pretty fabric you wear draped around your neck."
Meanwhile, women are allowed to just use reasonable discretion as long as they're wearing a dress. The style of dress isn't specified (but of course most women will interpret it as "show a little bit of bare chest, but not too much, because it's a funeral")
"Clothes-Optional" funerals are a blast when everyone is 73.
Cartoonist Michael Leunig (r.i.p.) called them the 'business burkha' and I've thought of them as such ever since.
What's with the dude wearing the white bowtie?
Looks like he's also wearing a tailcoat. That's maximum formality. I assume as an indication of maximum respect. Probably not planning to tapdance.
A Secret Server.
White tie is a level of formality above black tie. He might probably a diplomat honoring him as head of state rather than as the head of Catholic Church.
Is a dark blue suit not a "dark suit?" Trump isn't even the only person wearing a dark blue suit in this picture:
Blue suit? ... oh, I'm wearing blue and not black because I'm not sad ... I'm just here so that everyone can see me.
Looks like it may have been brightened slightly?
Looks like a saturation bump. Good eye. I didn’t make it. I found it on Substack.
Trump looks like a gormless hunchback.
I am feeling called out today because the only suit I own is dark blue, and I do wear it to funerals. Am I supposed to own a black suit? Do people feel disrespected? Nobody has ever said anything...
Am I supposed to own a black suit?
Supposed to? There is no hard-fast rule saying so, but it can be good to have one for these types of events. Even though you probably won’t be escorted away, it’s considered respectful to some- from a traditional sense.
Similar in the way that you generally won’t see someone wearing a white dress to someone else’s wedding.
And a good tailored black suit is never a bad thing to own.
FWIW I reckon you're fine mate 👍
You're not going to the Pope's funeral.
Honestly, most people will never attend a very formal funeral. Wear your blue suit. If you come to mine I hereby grant permission to wear jeans and a band or nerd T-shirt. It's very indicative of what I wore most of my life up to this point even if I dress better now when I leave the house.
I don't think most people care as long as you are trying.
Unless there is a Dress Code that explicitly says you must wear a "black" suit, you're fine. I wouldn't worry about it.
I see a lot of comments on this idiot and his blue suit. This is the only fucking suit he owns. A large, off the rack, kmart looking thing.
He probably doesn't even know the difference (or names) of colours.
Nonsense thing to criticize. Who cares?
It’s not about the suit, it’s about the hypocrisy. He acts like Christianity is so important to him, but knows nothing about the religion or customs, and mocked Zelenskyy for not respecting the White House enough to wear a proper suit.
Not only that, but I think a lot of the criticism is a result of Republicans decade+ long history of finding ridiculous things to start controversy about. Recall Obama's tan suit, or, of course, "Why aren't you wearing a suit?"
That doesn't really make much sense considering wearing black to a funeral has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity. That is a custom that originated in the Roman Empire.
The surviving relatives of the deceased (and ONLY the surviving relatives, NOT friends or others) would wear what was called a toga pulla, which was a dark or black toga to signify to others that they were mourning the death of a relative. It didn't matter if the Romans that did this were Christian or not, because that was a Roman custom, not a Christian one.
I don't really see where there would be any hypocrisy whether he was wearing a black or blue suit. He is dressed in formal attire that shows respect for the occasion of honoring a deceased person. This is different from what you mention, when Zelensky wore clothing that was not formal to a formal event. That would obviously be taken as a sign of disrespect in many cultures around the world, and clearly it was taken that way on that occasion.
I mean, Trump definitely gives a lot of reason to dislike him, but in this particular instance, the complaint made in this meme that Trump didn't wear a black suit seems to be a bit if a ridiculous nitpick, IMO.
His ego can't bear the fact that today is not about him. All the other world leaders are showing respect, he's showing his narcissism and rudeness.
I think most people who saw their meeting in the white house where Trump/Vance yelled at him for not wearing a suit care.