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Originally posted by archer2371
Number two, where the hell in the Constitution does it say, "The President MAY NOT WEAR MILITARY CLOTHING"? nowhere in the Constitution does it say that. Sure it may have been a Top Gun move, however, when you're flying in an F/A-18 Hornet or any other supersonic fighter, you must wear a flight suit, it's part of the safety precautions for the pilot and the navigator and/or passenger.
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It's a constitutional protocol, like a convention or very strict etiquette. Kinda like not throwing up on the Japanese ambassador, touching the Queen of England, musing that a dictatorship would be so much easier or joking about how you start bombing Soviet Russia "in five minutes". It's all shit YOU JUST DON'T DO. It doesn't have to be written in the constitution.
The 'safety precaution' idea doesn't seem like the greatest excuse - his press people knew he'd need to wear a fight suit, they could have avoided the whole situation by getting his Marine One helicopter in...instead they took the ship back out to sea and put him in the jet anyway. It's all symbolic of what this President represents and the rest of the world is watching carefully.
What's next, a HALO jump over Red Square?