A certain subset of the media had extreme double standards for Obama, over previous presidents. Because Obama was generally pretty scandal free, the media had to latch on to any minor “misdeed.” So we saw news stories where they discussed how horrible he was to wear a tan suit or ask for the fancy mustard instead of regular.
Usually, when people bring it up in the present day, it’s to point out the hypocrisy of those media sources. Could you imagine Fox news spending weeks discussing how unprofessional Trump looks wearing (insert perfectly innocuous outfit here)?
Note: Obama was certainly not perfect, and he did have his issues, but generally not the sort that could fill a 24hr news channel for 8 years straight. Especially when his actual scandals weren’t actually things that particular organization was against (NSA spying on Americans, extrajudicial killing of citizens abroad, etc).
A certain subset of the media had extreme double standards for Obama, over previous presidents. Because Obama was generally pretty scandal free, the media had to latch on to any minor “misdeed.” So we saw news stories where they discussed how horrible he was to wear a tan suit or ask for the fancy mustard instead of regular.
Usually, when people bring it up in the present day, it’s to point out the hypocrisy of those media sources. Could you imagine Fox news spending weeks discussing how unprofessional Trump looks wearing (insert perfectly innocuous outfit here)?
Note: Obama was certainly not perfect, and he did have his issues, but generally not the sort that could fill a 24hr news channel for 8 years straight. Especially when his actual scandals weren’t actually things that particular organization was against (NSA spying on Americans, extrajudicial killing of citizens abroad, etc).