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Picture of Sanders sitting with cozy-looking gloves on at the Biden inauguration has created a deluge of memes.
Photo: Image of a Bernie Sanders meme. Location Paramount in Huntington, NY. Bernie Sanders is back in the spotlight after an image captured of him sitting in a chair, mask on, wearing a pair of very Vermont-esque mittens during the inauguration appeared. He has, as some people claim online, done what no other politician has been able to do recently: United the country, albeit around some pretty funny memes circulating on social media about himself. “I was just sitting there, trying to keep warm, trying to pay attention to what was going on, Buzzfeed quoted Sanders as saying to late night show host Seth Meyers about the photo.
Mittened Bernie Sanders Meme d on BART, Cable Car
The meme of Bernie Sanders sitting slouched, masked, and wearing some large and cozy mittens while waiting for Joe Biden to be inaugurated on Wednesday spread fast and wide. And now there are some Bay Area editions.
The meme all began with photographer Brendan Smialowski s shot of Senator Sanders, sitting socially distanced at the inauguration ceremony thinking about what could have been.
i need this picture to become the new i would prefer not to stand in pic.twitter.com/IsUATStFz8 rachel syme (@rachsyme) January 20, 2021
A different Getty Images photographer captured Bernie taking off one of those mittens to take a phone call.