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President Obama looked slightly ridiculous with a somber Marine holding an umbrella for him during a press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan on Thursday. "Why don't we get a couple of Marines?" the president asked, as a slight rain continued to fall in the Rose Garden. "They're going to look good next to us."

Their boss, not so much.

Indeed, there is something especially funny about seeing the most powerful people on Earth undone by weather just like the rest of us plebes. In honor of today's meteorological meme at the White House, here are some of the best photos of presidents who, despite the claims of conspiracy theorists, still haven't gotten the Pentagon to invent a weather machine.

While campaigning in Virginia in July, Obama got so soaked you could see what type of undershirt he wears:

George W. Bush seems to have preferred to handle his own umbrellas. However, he was not a very good umbrella holder. In June 2004:

In May 2005:

His reaction time was too slow in May 2007:

Bill Clinton running in the rain in November 1992:

Those thighs must have been ice cold.

Clinton awkwardly holds an umbrella for Ted Kennedy in May 1994: