"Why aren't you wearing a suit?": Right-wing commentator doesn't like Selensky's outfit

ntv.de "Why aren't you wearing a suit?": Right-wing commentator doesn't like Selensky's outfit 1 hour • 2 minutes reading time Volodymyr Selensky never wears a suit when he makes public appearances. This was also the case at his meeting with US President Trump. The Ukrainian president's outfit is already a topic of discussion during the greeting. In the Oval Office, the mood finally changes when asked about his choice of clothing. Selensky appeared dressed in a sweater as usual. A right-wing online commentator present in the Oval Office mocked the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selensky's style of clothing. "Why aren't you wearing a suit?" Brian Glenn asked the statesman at the meeting with US President Donald Trump, which got completely out of hand. "You refuse to wear a suit. (...) Do you even own one?" Zelensky, who was wearing a sweater as usual, responded with a counter question: "Do you have a problem with that? Really?" he said. Glenn replied that many Americans were bothered by the lack of appreciation for the rooms in the White House. The Ukrainian president referred to the ongoing war in his country: "I will wear a suit when this war is over. Maybe one like yours, maybe a better one. Maybe a cheaper one." Trump himself had already made a comment about Zelensky's sweater when greeting him and said when shaking hands that the Ukrainian had "dressed up". In the Oval Office, the two then answered the first questions from the press. The conversation lasted for around 40 minutes in an appropriate atmosphere, but the mood became increasingly heated - until it finally turned. The exchange ended abruptly and the statesmen broke off the meeting. Since the beginning of his second term in office, the Trump administration has increasingly allowed right-wing media to attend, which accompany him benevolently but rarely attract attention with critical questions. In addition, the White House has taken control over which journalists are allowed to participate in the so-called correspondent pool that accompanies the US president at every step - a task that was previously carried out by the independent journalists' association WHCA.