This is what Churchill wore to the White House during WWII

[kpete]

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[Aristus]

1. It was a set of air warden's coveralls for officials organizing protective measures

during bombing raids.

Churchill called it his 'siren suit'.

[Aristus]

47. Sorry for the trivia.

I own seemingly every book ever published on the subject of World War II.

[Aristus]

50. Okay, you got me there.

I imagine the term ‘air liaison’ is probably in there somewhere.

[czarjak]

52. Tell us more.

[secondwind]

2. Thanks for posting this.

[TheBlackAdder]

46. Who wore it better?

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[czarjak]

53. Perfect. Period.

[calimary]

56. My skin still crawll even to think that the fucking RUSSIANS were

INSIDE the Oval Office!!!

Wonder if anybody planted any listening device or other bug. Wouldn’t be surprised.

Fraternizing with the ENEMY in the Oval Office. By his invitation - TO that same enemy!!! That’s sacrilege!

Damn you, donald. You sold us out. And if you weren’t quite able to finish the job, it’s galling as hell how close you got.

[TheBlackAdder]

58. The Russian guy is probably holding a list of US agents that will somehow meet bad fates.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Churchill sure disliked the Soviets

[cilla4progress]

4. Who wore it

better?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. Dude can wear whatever the f*** he wants to the WH afaic

Both dudes, matter of fact, given the situations in their home countries at the time.

Seriously who has time to worry about this?

[Attilatheblond]

8. Sometimes, in war, leaders don't have time for appointments with tailors

Something ChickenHawks like Tucker will never understand.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

9. S'what I was getting at :)

Welcome to DU

[SleeplessinSoCal]

41. Schmucker must hang around strip joints quite a bit to know the attire.

[Kennah]

54. As a client or worker?

[BadgerMom]

26. Who worries about this?

The “worriers” are precisely the people who criticized Obama’s tan suit. They’re petty people who are so frightened by and jealous of people of substance who are secure in their own skin that these ciphers lash out.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

29. S'what I was getting at :) (nt)

[judesedit]

34. Clothes don't make the people. The people make the clothes.

Many in suit and tie are anything but good men. They think they can compensate for their shortcomings by wearing a suit to appear hoity toity lol. So not impressed.

[barbtries]

39. TFG to a tee.

the only time you see him in anything but a suit is on the golf course.

[ananda]

6. Great pics!

Thanks

[Bettie]

7. Took me a second to notice Churchill's clothing

was too busy looking at the little dog!

But, yeah, if this is the big "criticism" they can just fuck off.

[Xavier Breath]

20. Yes, Fala seems unimpressed with his wardrobe.

[Hekate]

10. Brilliant

[Hortensis]

11. Zelensky's a wartime president who comes from war and returns to it.

His wartime presidential "uniform" is a lot more than just symbolic. It's what he wears. This is one of those litmus nonissues that reveals far more than the nothing it is.

I read that this is Zelensky's first trip out of Ukraine since the war began. Since the skies of Ukraine are far too dangerous, he took a night train across the Polish border and then probably a USAF jet accompanied by US fighter and NATO jets. Arrived @ 10 hours later in DC. around noon, met with our president, addressedcongress, then...stealth return to Ukraine via Poland. Zip-zip.

One of our security officials: "Putin and the Kremlin know he has to get back to home."

[Marcus IM]

12. What? Tuck must've wanted him to wear a tan suit? n/t

[LudwigPastorius]

45. Carlson is just jealous because Zelensky doesn't have to tan his balls to raise his testosterone...

levels.

[RKP5637]

13. Tucker Carlson is a flaming idiot!!! n/t

[ShazzieB]

36. Is he? Or does he just play one on TV?

I really do wonder how much of his shtick is an act. Fake outrage does play well on FoxNews, after all.

[RKP5637]

40. Yes, sadly rolls in the money!!! n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. Great find.

Thanks for posting.

[PortTack]

15. Thank you!

[barbtries]

16. i was not at all upset.

what i did not know that there was a historical precedent. It does seem fitting that in a time of war, dressing up is totally optional. So much more important stuff to talk about!

I felt that was his message to me. either that or he's just left all that shit at home for the moment.

[LostinRed]

21. yeah

first of all, imagine if he did dress up and wore a suit. His country is literally war-torn people are freezing and starving. If he dressed up, he'd be hit with the "let them eat cake" criticism. Totally appropriate for him to be dressed down. Any criticism is cynical and fake.

[burrowowl]

17. Kick and kick

[malthaussen]

18. IIRC, most of the time he just slopped around in a robe and slippers...

... he was told to treat the White House as home, and he did so.

-- Mal

[NBachers]

57. This brings up a Naked Churchill story I read years ago, and always wondered about the veracity of:

Apparently Roosevelt was trying to come up with a name for the League of Nations-type organization he wanted to promote after the war. When he came up with "United Nations," he wheeled into Churchill's bathroom where he'd just emerged from the tub, to tell him about it.. Here are a couple of historical accounts: https://richardlangworth.com/churchills-naked-encounter

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/mr-churchill-in-the-white-house-1

[malthaussen]

60. Yeah, I've seen that one, too.

Mr Churchill stayed with the Roosevelts for three weeks, and they were quite informal.

-- Mal

[Joinfortmill]

19. Lots of comparisons to Churchill.

[musclecar6]

22. Tucker Carlson !?!?!?!?!

Just a loudmouth jackass who doesn’t know shit about living in the real world, or a guy who is leading a country that is at war with a psychopath tyrant. Jerkoff.

[Kid Berwyn]

23. The reason a uniform gets to the conservative "mind."

Che Guevara addresses the United Nations in 1964.



The GOP cowards are sore afraid of sharing, or paying taxes, or admitting their hypocrisy.

[KS Toronado]

24. Is that a Victory Garden on the WH lawn?

[Lasher]

25. Hitler launched V-2 ballistic missiles at the Allies.

They stopped launching only after launch sites had to be moved due to Allied advances. They then became too far away for the rockets to reach Britain.

Sometimes history repeats itself.

[WarGamer]

43. The V2's...

The Germans deployed V2 rockets vs England all the way thru 3/27/1945 and the Germans held some launch area until the wars end, targeting European targets like Antwerp.

In fact... the last few months of the war saw the MOST V2 launches.

[csziggy]

27. Zelensky wore a suit in his meeting with TFG and look what that got him

So I don't blame him for not "dressing up" for this series of meetings. I do admire him for his dedication and resolve.

[Upthevibe]

28. kpete..........

Thank you for this post...

[kpete]

37. you are welcome

peace,
kp

[planetc]

30. What nobody else has mentioned is ...

that we finally have proof that Zelenskyy can smile. We have not seen many from his zoom station in Ukraine. Also, I thought he was wearing his neatest set of fatigues and a very clean pair of boots as he got off the plane. Thus attired, he brought the house down in the Joint Session.

[Crunchy Frog]

32. I've seen tons of interview clips where he was laughing or smiling.

Glad he hasn't lost his sense of humor.

[Cha]

31. Jealous Idiots are "upset".

Not upset! TY

[Raine]

33. Interesting ... Thanks for posting this! 👍 nt

[ShazzieB]

38. Those who got so "upset" about Zelensky's attire were anti-Zelensky and anti-Ukraine to begin with.

Haters will always look for something to criticize and clutch their pearls about. They will hunt high and low to find something, and when they can't find anything real, they'll take the pettiest thing imaginable and spin and twist until they blow it up into the Hugest Fucking Deal Ever. Just like they did when Obama were that tan suit. Exactly like that.

When I watched Zelensky's speech, what he was wearing literally did not even register with me at the time. I was too riveted by his words and his heroism to notice. When I heard about the criticism of his attire, I was like, "Wait, what?" Looked at a pic and was like, "Oh, for Pete's sake."

The people claiming to be upset about his clothes are all Putin boosters who don't want to give money to Ukraine and hate Zelensky on principle. It's not about about the sweatshirt. It never was about the sweatshirt. Fuck them and the clothes horse they rode in on.

[FakeNoose]

44. Yes I think you're right

The a-holes are always going to throw grenades, however they can.

Case in point - President Zelenskyy came to our Congress and gave his speech in English - which is a foreign language for him. I'm sure he was nervous speaking in English but he did it anyway. And he nailed it!

Has Chump ever done that? Of course not. Has any President ever given a speech in a foreign language? None that I know of, but Jimmy Carter is fluent in Spanish, so he might have.

I have so much respect for President Zelenskyy and I'm embarrassed about all the cheap-shot criticisms these MAGAts are throwing. What bullshit! What difference did it make, what he wore?

[WarGamer]

42. I don't want to be "that guy"

But this is ridiculously misleading.

Winston Churchill spent 110+ days at the White House in WW2.

The tweeter did a vast image search to find some where he's NOT wearing a coat.

It's perfectly OK for Z to appear in his "commander garb" but I really hate when people online seed misinformation.

BTW, do a search for Churchill INSIDE the White House and look at what he's wearing.

[Aristus]

48. There were a lot of times when he wasn't wearing anything.

He liked to walk around naked. Really shocked FDR. Churchill responded “The Prime Minister of Great Britain has nothing to hide from the President of the United States!”

[soldierant]

55. The speech was also Churchillian.

"Give us the tools and we will finish the job."

I don't know how anyone could have msissed it, even had he not mentioned 1944.

But then, I'm old (not old enough to have been alivein 1944 - but almost.)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

59. When you don't want to pay blood or money to fight tyranny, complain about clothing choices. nt