Former President Barack Obama still has jokes from the sidelines as he weighs in on the political climate, seeming to attempt to tip the scales in the DNC's favor.
The former president, pushed by his party as a bastion of charisma and Democrat ideals, had his image glued together with the racial diversity that served as a dog whistle to all the guilty feelings of the left-wing Democrat voters.
Case in point, despite the plethora of social and international issues that grew increasingly worse during the two terms Obama spent in office, Democrats call "tan-gate" one of the most controversial issues in his time in office.
To mark the tenth anniversary of the tan suit controversy, former President Obama praised Vice President Harris in a social media post.
Last week, he shared side-by-side photographs of himself wearing his tan suit from 2014 and Harris wearing a tan suit at the Democratic National Convention.
Ten years ago, his decision to don a tan suit while discussing ISIS in Iraq and Syria and Russia's intervention in Ukraine sparked an online outcry.
“How it started. How it’s going. Ten years later, and it’s still a good look!” Obama wrote in a post on social media platforms X and Instagram.
How it started. How it's going.
Ten years later, and it's still a good look! https://t.co/NKXRGNgJPv pic.twitter.com/KeI1gn7HSg
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 28, 2024
Additionally, he provided a hyperlink to IWillVote.com, a website that is funded by the Democratic National Committee and is designed to motivate Americans to verify their voter registration status.
In 2014, Obama's fashion choice prompted controversy among some pundits for not being serious enough, resulting in the suit becoming an iconic item as numerous social media users shared memes of the ensemble.
Since that time, social media users and other politicians have continued to ridicule the online uproar that Obama's tan suit has sparked.
During the former president's birthday week in 2021, President Biden appeared to pay tribute to Obama by wearing a tan attire.
Harris was seen at the venue in a tan suit one day before Obama's address at the Democratic National Convention last week.The New York Times observed that Harris's decision to wear a tan suit on Day 1 of the convention deviated from the conventional colors of red, white, and blue.
Harris's decision to wear a tan suit was compared to Obama's decision from approximately a decade earlier by a significant number of social media users. Some have speculated that Harris was attempting to align himself with popular culture.
