White House trolls the press corps with tan suit tweet

The White House poked fun at the Washington press corps before the State of the Union speech Tuesday, tweeting a picture of a tan suit and claiming President Obama was “suiting up for the big speech.” The White House also included the hashtag “#YesWeTan.”

President Obama's suiting up for the big speech. Watch at 9pm ET → http://t.co/NKU3ndKHOu #YesWeTan pic.twitter.com/l7EJZYVk9s Advertisement — The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 21, 2015

In August 2014, when President Obama wore a tan suit to a press conference, social media had a field day with hashtags like #YesWeCan and #TheAudacityOfTaupe. Others tweeted pictures of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton in tan suits and asked facetiously “Who wore it better?”

Some in the Republican caucus were not so amused. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) went on NewsMaxTV shortly after tan-gate to talk about the rising threat of ISIL (also known as ISIS) and said “For him to walk out — I’m not trying to be trivial here — but in a light suit, a light tan suit?”

King continued. “ISIS is watching. If you were the head of ISIS, if you were Baghdadi, if you were anyone in the ISIS, would you come away from yesterday afraid of the United States? Would you be afraid that the United States was going to use all its power to crush ISIS? Or would you think here’s a person who’s going to go out and do a few fundraisers over the Labor Day weekend?”

Ultimately, President Obama elected to wear a dark suit for 2015’s State of the Union.