Any pundit who is criticizing Pres. Zelenskyy's attire is failing to read the room, but moreover, they're just completely missing the point.

A country and its leader under immediate and existential threats have no time for suits and neckties.

He has no visible rank or medals or nametapes or epaulets or brass buttons or starched creases. He's wearing what women and men who are fighting on the frontlines in Ukraine are wearing.

He's wearing the urgency of the moment.

That's the point.

@charlotteclymer If he wore a suit and tie, they'd criticize him for that. I remember what happened when Cesar Chavez showed up in a suit and tie.
@charlotteclymer @meshaiman Hoo boy. I can just imagine what that scene was like.