On Tuesday, Katrina Pierson, senior advisor for President Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, shared her views on Democrats who chose to wear all white during the State of the Union address.
All White Attire at the State of the Union
Several House Democratic women elected to wear all white attire to the State of the Union address; they subsequently cited the women’s suffrage as their source of inspiration. However, not all Americans interpreted their attire in the manner which they were going for.
Pierson weighed in with her interpretation via Twitter:
The only thing that the Democrats uniform was missing tonight is the matching hood.
— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) February 6, 2019
The president’s re-election campaign advisor is not the only American to draw parallels between the Democrats’ attire and the Ku Klux Klan. Other public figures on the right-wing expressed similar views via social media: