Bernie Sanders, the least thought out influencer

Veteran Vermont senator and former Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie sanders, deemed “funny” that his image with huge mittens on Joe Biden’s inauguration as President of the United States has gone viral and indicated that now they put it on the clothes they sell to help low-income seniors. “What we’re doing here in Vermont is selling sweatshirts and t-shirts across the country and all the money that’s raised, which I hope is a few million dollars, will go to programs like Meals on wheels that feed low-income seniors, ”he said Sanders this Sunday on the program State of the Unionby CNN. “So actually this turns out to be a good thing and not just fun,” he added.

A picture of Sanders, 79, seated in a chair, as a guest outside the Capitol, and huddled in the cold has turned in the networks social for their large woolen mittens. A Buzzfeed media reporter explained in a tweet thread she posted on Wednesday that the clothes that sparked internet fury were a gift two years ago from Professor Jen Ellis, of Essex Junction, VT, in senator, who has worn it a few times in the past.

According to this journalist, the mittens, in brown and ocher tones, they are made with recycled wool.

Memes in the image of Sanders have multiplied in networks, where personalities such as Sarah Jessica Karker, Sharon Stone and Carla BruniAmong other things, they took the opportunity to include the senator among their most famous photographs and Internet users have made theirs by including him in scenes from famous films or by showing the places and times less expected.

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So Sanders appears both on the majestic Iron Throne of the hit series Game Of Thrones like sitting on a bench next to Tom hanks in Forrest Gump, in scenes of Star wars or in the famous 1930s photograph, sitting on a beam, overlooking the void, next to workers in a skyscraper under construction during their lunch break. He is also seen alongside Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill in Yalta in 1945, among the apostles of The last meal by Leonardo da Vinci, and on the Moon, with an astronaut helmet.

In the midst of all the guests, dressed in extreme elegance to attend the inauguration of the new President of the United States Joe Biden last Wednesday, the simple, warm and ecological dress of the senator Bernie sanders he swept through social media. While most of the men wore well-designed winter coats, the former Democratic nomination contestant arrived ecological jacket and mittens, knitted by one of his constituents.

The image taken by the photographer for the AFP press agency Brendan Smialowski, showing him sitting, legs and arms crossed, with his knitted gloves clearly visible, quickly circulated on social networks, and this is how many Internet users have created parodies.

Senator from Vermont, a state in the northeastern United States, known for its ski resorts, Sanders considered his outfit absolutely suitable for the weather, in a brief interview with CBS following the ribbon cutting ceremony. “You know, in Vermont we know the cold. We don’t care about being fashionable, we just want to be warm. That’s what I did today, ”he joked. His wife, Jane o’meara sanders, backed him up with the tweet “Vermont jacket, Vermont gloves, Vermont common sense.”

Bernie sanders it is located to the left of the Democratic Party and has strong environmental principles.

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