washington standing out in a crowd of glamorously dressed guests bernie sanders showed up for the us presidential inauguration in a heavy winter jacket and patterned mittens with an afp photo of the veteran leftist spawning the first viral meme of the biden erathe senator from the northeastern state of vermont beloved by supporters for his earnest and seemingly grumpy style was seated alone at the socially distanced event wednesday where joe biden took oath as presidentsocial media users quickly pounced on afp photographer brendan smialowskis shot of a bundledup sanders sitting crosslegged superimposing it on a wide variety of imagesone placed sanders on a bench next to tom hanks in forrest gump another put him in detention with the teenagers from the breakfast club and he also made it into numerous star wars scenessome photoshopped him on to the covers of albums by music stars such as taylor swift kendrick lamar and oasisyou know in vermont we know something about the cold were not so concerned about good fashion we want to keep warm and thats what i did today sanders said with a snicker on cbs news after the inaugurationhis wife jane omeara sanders also praised the look tweeting vermont jacket vermont gloves vermont common sensesanders has been in the political limelight for years most recently he aimed for the white house in the 2020 democratic primaries which he lost to the eventual winner bidenbut some twitter users decided to whisk him to other moments in historyone meme showed him mittens and all in a blackandwhite photo from the wwii yalta conference in 1945 seated next to british prime minister winston churchill us president franklin roosevelt and soviet leader joseph stalinanother placed him at the table with jesus christ and his apostles in leonardo da vincis the last supperhe even made it to the moon one meme showed him seated on the surface of the moon wearing an astronauts helmet next to an american flagsanderss prominent mittens were made from repurposed wool sweaters and fleece made from recycled plastic bottles by a teacher in vermont according to fashion magazine vogue which described his style as antifashionsanders who had arrived at the capitol carrying a large brown envelope was also compared to a grandfather stopping in at the inauguration on the way to the post office or perhaps he was off to pick up a doctors prescriptiontwitter user boxrecgrey quipped bernie looks fully prepared to leave this event early to mail his taxes and cash a cashiers check