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Demovictory9

(32,454 posts)
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 11:08 PM Feb 2019

The Obama Bomber Jacket Moment happened at a Duke-UNC basketball game.


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People Are Extremely Into Barack Obama’s Bomber Jacket With ‘44’ On The Sleeve
The Obama Bomber Moment happened at a Duke-UNC basketball game.


By Jenna Amatulli
The former president and one of America’s many dads Barack Obama wore a black bomber jacket with “44” embroidered on the sleeve Wednesday night, and the internet is extremely amped about it.

The Obama Bomber Moment™, as it will henceforth be called, happened at the basketball game between celebrated rivals Duke and the University of North Carolina.

While it’s immediately obvious that the “44” is a reference to the 44th U.S. president, the jacket’s origin was not. GQ tracked down the bomber and found that it retails for $595 from Rag & Bone.

Marcus Wainwright, the founder and chief brand officer at Rag & Bone, told the publication that the company custom-made the jacket for Obama toward the end of his second term and “wasn’t expecting him to wear it in public.”

However, after Wainwright saw The Obama Bomber Moment™, he told GQ: “Making a jacket for the president, that’s fucking awesome. How else can you put it? When they look good in it, it’s even more gratifying.”

And, truly, Obama looked good. The internet was overjoyed. Mothers were (probably) crying, children were (likely) celebrating.
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The Obama Bomber Jacket Moment happened at a Duke-UNC basketball game. (Original Post) Demovictory9 Feb 2019 OP
He looks good in anything. Happy for the designer to see him wear it well MaryMagdaline Feb 2019 #1
Yes he does wear it well. :) LiberalFighter Feb 2019 #2
Who is that woman standing next to him? irresistable Feb 2019 #3
I can see some advantages to that, but she works for ESPN. Marcuse Feb 2019 #5
Oh, man, I MISS him. dmr Feb 2019 #4
Oh, NOES! He's become a gangsta! Honeycombe8 Feb 2019 #6
he is EVERYTHING JI7 Feb 2019 #7
He is all that! lunatica Feb 2019 #9
He looks like a men's wear model lunatica Feb 2019 #8

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
6. Oh, NOES! He's become a gangsta!
Fri Feb 22, 2019, 02:09 AM
Feb 2019

LOL. I guess that's what the MAGAts are saying.

That jacket is awesome. I bet the maker WAS proud of this showing. Obama wears it well, as they say.

Is that Malia, or someone flirting with our President?

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
8. He looks like a men's wear model
Fri Feb 22, 2019, 02:44 AM
Feb 2019

And I’m sure it pains Trump mightily, or in a word he would understand better, Bigly!

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