MTG’s Boyfriend Still Dissing Zelensky’s Uniform

From Axios: Inside the White House, there was a feeling of unease among Trump advisers Friday when they saw Zelensky arrive without a business suit or a blazer. He was dressed instead in a three-button, skintight, long-sleeved black athletic shirt.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his choice of wearing standard-issue field uniforms is a show of solidarity with soldiers fighting the Russian army on the war’s frontlines. Zelensky has not worn suits, button-down shirts and ties since the beginning of the war in 2022.

But after years of Zelensky’s clothing choice producing perceived slight and mass MAGA tears, it apparently (according to several media outlets) was a catalyst, even if minor, in the melee that got him thrown out of the White House without a mineral rights and security deal with FOTUS.

The first thing Trump said to Zelensky as he got out of his car at the White House was, “You’re all dressed up today,” referring to Zelensky’s military-style black sweatshirt, adorned with the Ukrainian trident.

Brian Glenn, a “correspondent” for Real America’s Voice and a hand picked selection by the White House to perform as a “secondary TV” outlet alongside CNN on Friday, addressed Zelensky’s choice of attire, and suggested it was “disrespectful.”

• “Why don’t you wear a suit?” Glenn asked. “You’re at the highest level in this country’s office, and you refuse to wear a suit.

• “Do you own a suit?” he continued. “A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the dignity of this office.”

The aggressive questioning marked the moment when the Ukrainian president – who until then seemed to be having a diplomatic, even friendly, conversation with Trump – first appeared tired and irritated.

• “I will wear costume after this war will finish,” Zelensky replied. (The word “suit” can be translated into Ukrainian as “kostyum”.)

The Ukrainian president then made a verbal jab at the reporter.

• “Maybe something like yours, yes. Maybe something better, I don’t know,” he said, to laughter in the room. “Maybe something cheaper.”

After the exchange with Glenn, the discussion got back to aid for Ukraine, but Trump came back to it:

• “I do like your clothing,” he quipped, and pointing to Zelensky he said, “I think he’s dressed beautifully.”

Glenn (also Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend) issued a statement on X Saturday morning that again berated Zelensky for his attire.

Glenn said that Zelensky’s choice showed “his inner disrespect” for the US, and suggested in the post that the olive-green military fatigues that Zelensky often wears in meetings with other world leaders signaled respect, but that the black tactical sweater bearing his country’s coat of arms did not.

And of course, his MAGAt girlfriend chimed in with more disrespect for Zelensky.

BBC, NYT