Maybe it’s another quit-smoking strategy.
Or he’s just chewing over new ways to insult American vets after trading a potential deserter for five of the most vicious terrorist commanders in American custody.
No matter what it was, President Obama drew international attention – and no small amount of derision – when he was caught on camera chewing gum like an ill-mannered teenager during Friday’s D-Day anniversary ceremonies in Normandy, France.
For a man with a White House staff supposedly obsessed with “optics,” getting caught on camera looking like he’s planning to skip out of study hall is an enormous black eye — for himself and his country.
Twitter users, of course, were watching.
WTF IS WRONG W/ THIS GUY??? Every single day he embarrasses the nation. Obama chewing GUM at D-Day Ceremony in France http://t.co/kUmlJglzwS
— JΞSTΞR ✪ ACTUAL™ (@th3j35t3r) June 6, 2014
Obama chewing gum during D-Day Ceremony. I respect the office of the POTUS, but this man is an embarrassment. @RedNationRising @PolitiBunny
— Adrian Tersa (@AdTersa) June 7, 2014
And after Obama’s juvenile antics like that infamous “selfie” at Nelson Mandela’s funeral, chewing gum at Friday’s D-Day commemoration was a faux pas his French host country couldn’t ignore.
Warning: Some of the language is a little risque.
Obama chewing gum during D-Day Ceremony. I respect the office of the POTUS, but this man is an embarrassment. @RedNationRising @PolitiBunny
— Adrian Tersa (@AdTersa) June 7, 2014
Obama et son chewing-gum. Classe. #DDay70
— Grégory Gasson (@GregGasson) June 6, 2014
“Pure class” if you like sarcastic Frenchmen.
Or a little more straight-forwardly:
#Obama ac son chewing gum… Pas classe du tout #DDay70
— Laurent Caselli (@LaurentCaselli) June 6, 2014
“No class at all” to you and me.
And here’s one that should infuriate the Obamabots — one of their treasured European buddies comparing Obama to that cowboy from Texas. It asks “can anyone ask Barack Obama to stop chewing his gum like a cowboy?”
Est-ce que quelqu’un pourrait demander à Barack Obama d’arrêter de mastiquer son chewing-gum comme un cow-boy ? #DDay
— Jayce Oliver (@jaycelight) June 6, 2014
Here’s how a helpful American answered:
@jaycelight Cowboys, how you say, do not chew ze gum. But your point is well taken.
— Kevin (@blogagog) June 6, 2014
Or how about one word most people picked up from high school French (or friends who took it.)
Le chewing-gum Obama merde
— Ju’ (@SaisirUnPseudo) June 6, 2014
That’s one way of saying chewing gum on formal occasions isn’t tres chic.
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