AKA the completely repugnant anchor on Fox Business. No, the really egregious one. No, not that one, the other one.
I wonder if TV had something to do with it. A hat brim casts a shadow on the face. A photo op can compensate for that – stand facing a different way, look up instead of down, etc. – but once we were live filming the entire swearing-in ceremony for TV news, I could see how someone who was very keyed in to being photogenic on TV would decide to just keep the hat off.
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He didn’t wear a silk top hat to his inauguration, but he wasn’t much of a hat guy to begin with. JFK didn’t start the decline of the hat in the U.S., but his media presence as POTUS put the last nails in the coffin.
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I don’t want to admit how much time I just spent looking for a photo of Adam West as Batman showing up at a gala like this in his cape.
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Thanks for the correction.
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well the penguin is usually dressed for the occasion.
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I’m guessing that he hires aesteticians and tailors, but decides not to pay them after all. That’s how he ends up looking so uniquely classy.
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His next book: “How To Be A Douchebag, In Public: The Greatest.”
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Thanks to Anatole France.
Maria Bartiromo for President!
Goddamn. I realize I’m not first to observe this but the presidency really aged Obama.
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McCain…
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Kennedy may have finished off hats for men, but they were indeed already on the way out. In the early 50s Stetson was already fighting the trend. They launched a fancy full-page color ad campaign in middle-class and upscale magazines pushing the benefits of head coverings. Amusingly, one of them featured a Mexican peasant wearing his practical sombrero. Somehow I can’t picture Fortune readers being inspired to buy a hat in solidarity with the campesinos.
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Next book: “How To Be Classy With Shitty Steaks.”
P.S. I’m selling that joke right now: 1000 bucks. Any takers? We can use paypal.
P.P.S. Job at the Onion? Contract, of course, by joke only. Grand per.
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Soon…
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That’s a small hand for such a tall, glowering man…
P.S. Grip that ill-fitted suit.
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Trump could have shown up and said nothing, he’s a complete joke after all. Too bad he’s an unfunny one.
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Hill on the Hill, period.
She’ll be a great President.
I’m fully onboard.
