ABC News anchor David Muir is being mocked on social media as “pathetic” and “narcissistic” for using clamps to cinch his flame-retardant jacket while broadcasting from the scene of the deadly Los Angeles wildfires.
The eponymous host of World News Tonight with David Muir was surveying the damage in LA for ABC News, doing a stand-up hit from the street in the Palisades when his fashion faux pas was exposed.
“As you can see here behind me,” Muir says as he turns to point to charred rubble behind his back.
Muir’s jacket fit so snuggly due to a styling clamp on his back. X/JackOsbourne via ABC News
As he looks behind him, a wooden clamp is clearly visible on the back of his jacket.
taut over Muir’s torso. X/JackOsbourne via ABC News
The clamp — which look like traditional clothes pegs — tightens the ill-fitting ABC News-branded jacket, showing off Muir’s torso.
“Nice Jacket Bro. Glad you look nice and svelte with those clothes line pegs, while our city burns to the ground,” Jack Obsourne wrote in a caption to the video in an X post.
Other users added their two cents — calling Muir “pathetic,” “narcissistic,” and a litany of other insults.
during the presidential debate between Trump and Harris. ABC
Using clothes pegs to cinch clothes is a standard television styling maneuver done in lieu of more traditional and permanent tailoring.
Muir is no stranger to criticism.
Conservatives blasted the anchor last summer for his debate moderation — which critics say smacked of political bias against then-Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
In that debate, the Mouse House host repeatedly interrupted Trump and conducted zero on-air fact checks of the gaffe-prone Vice President Kamala Harris.