On August 28, 2015, in his 6th year in office, the biggest “scandal ”of Obama’s presidency erupted. He wore a tan suit to a White House press conference. He was not meeting with world leaders, addressing the nation or at a funeral. He walked down the hall to a briefing room full of reporters in which some of the men were not even wearing ties. He was not the first president to wear a tan suit while in office. Reagan and Bush occasionally wore tan or khaki suits. This was Obama’s first time showing work in anything other than a black, blue or grey suit. He wore it well. I updated this post to add this WaPo article looking back on the tan suit affair 5 years later.
of the tan suit scandal. That was a calmer, less frightening and more joyful time
And then there’s today. It took Trump to teach the media about scandal and after 3 1/2 years of his two-scandals-a-day administration you can say they are magna cum laudes.
So just imagine what would have happened had President Obama said he was thinking about declaring a national emergency to divert money budgeted by Congress for other purposes to fund the Affordable Care Act?