I think it’s fair to say that everybody’s experienced a situation where they said, did or wore the wrong thing, which may have caused embarrassment or even backlash. For most of us, the moment passes and merely lives on in those quiet, anxious moments of our psyche. For others — former presidents, for example — the moment is forever. Seth Meyers brought up Barack Obama’s tan suit debacle last week, and days later it was mentioned a second time by Larry David, despite the fact that it’s been 12 years.
Flash back to 2014, and you might remember then-President Barack Obama causing quite a bit of controversy when he wore a tan suit to a press conference about terrorism. It was deemed too casual by many for the topic at hand. The first time the issue came up as part of the 2026 TV schedule was on Late Night with Seth Meyers on August 5, as the host spoke about recent reports of President Donald Trump making money off of his cryptocurrency. Meyers said:
