OP: I remember when the event that shouldn't be controversial was made controversial.
Bad faith reply: You don't remember the event that should be controversial and was controversial?
Give and you shall receive. In case you forgot the event that shouldn't be controversial [1]:
> U.S. representative Peter King, a member of the Republican Party, deemed the suit's color combined with the subject matter of terrorism to be "unpresidential". He went on: "There's no way, I don't think, any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday. I mean, you have the world watching".
