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President Obama’s scandal-plagued presidency was a sad chapter in American history.
Who can ever forget that time he wore a tan suit?
A disgrace if there ever was one.
In August of 2014, Obama gave a speech, and some Republicans were so enraged by his wardrobe selection, they responded in protest.
“There’s no way any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday,” complained N.Y. Rep. Peter King. Obama had failed to meet King’s sartorial standards. For him, that ruined the speech.
“I’m not trying to be trivial here. (then he got monumentally trivial). “In a light suit, a light tan suit…saying that he wants to talk about what most…” was part of King’s tirade.
King, though, isn’t much of presidential historian, since both Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan had worn even lighter colored suits.
Besides, the noted fashion designer, Joseph Abboud, remarked, “I applaud him for wearing a tan suit.”
But elevating nonsense to a near high crime and misdemeanor is something Republicans do well when a Democrat sits in the White House.
Rep. Peter King launched into a full-scale tirade, back in January of 2010, after Obama gave a speech involving a terrorist attack.
“He still refuses to use the word ‘terrorism,'” said King.
Problem is, Obama had made eight references to terrorism, terrorists, and counterterrorism in that speech.
Nowadays, the pettiness of Republicans between 2009 and 2017, has been replaced by their inability to appreciate real scandals today.
Many of them agree with Donald Trump’s assessments that the numerous investigations into his campaign’s involvement with Russia are hoaxes.
Or, they flee from cameras and reporters who want to know why Trump seems to think that last year’s violence in Charlottesville was the result of the bad actions “on many sides.”
When Barack Obama walked into a Virginia restaurant back in May of 2009, all he had to do was order a cheeseburger with Dijon Mustard on it – and all heck broke loose.
It was apparently an overt sign that Obama is an elitist.
Why else would Sean Hannity spend his time on Fox News that night, devoting an entire segment to the president’s choice of condiments?
“I hope you enjoyed that fancy burger Mr. President,” he concluded, as if he’d conducted an investigation and discovered an impeachable offense.
But if Trump forks over $130,000 to a porn star for hush-money, it goes unnoticed by Hannity, or unquestioned by Republicans in Congress.
The Trump administration has been embroiled in scandal since day one.
In fact, Reince Priebus, who served as Trump’s first chief-of-staff has been quoted in an upcoming book as being in conflict with Trump over the size of his inaugural crowd.
Priebus knew there would be serious fallout over Trump claiming there were more people at his inauguration than any before it.
“Who needs a controversy over the inauguration”? Priebus asked himself.
In the end, the president won, and the lie got told, thanks to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who helped Trump set some kind of a record for initiating the quickest presidential controversy in American history.
That’s only one of the reasons Priebus has been quoted as saying about the chaos leading to scandals in the Trump White House: “Take everything you’ve heard and multiply it by 50.”
At least Trump doesn’t wear tan suits, right?
Back in May of 2008, when Obama was on the campaign trail, he slipped-up and he said there are 57 states.
“I’ve now been in fifty…seven states,” he told a crowd.
Republicans still refer to that occasion as proof Mr. Obama lacks something-or-other.
I suspect, though, that if you ask him a thousand times how many states there are, he’ll tell you there are 50 – a thousand times.
That’s because it had been an obvious slip of the tongue.
But if you’d ask Mr. Trump what he thinks about those protesters in Charlottesville last year, he’d tell you there are still good people “on many sides.”
But at least he doesn’t wear a tan suit.
Edward A. Owens is a multi-Emmy Award winner, former reporter and anchor for Entertainment Tonight and 20-year TV news veteran. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net.