Style writer Vanessa Friedman had drooled over Hillary's clothing back in 2016, calling her white pantsuit "presidential."

However, when Gabbard, a fierce critic of Clinton, wore virtually the exact same outfit, Friedman said it made her look like a "cult leader" full of "combative righteousness" and that the white fabric has "connotations of the fringe, rather than the center" and even undermines "community building."

Journalist Glenn Greenwald highlighted the fact that it's normally considered sexist to judge women on their clothing, but that an exception had been made for Gabbard.Another Twitter user pointed out that Friedman had also previously praised Democratic Congresswomen at Trump's State of the Union for wearing white but lambasted Melania Trump for wearing the same color.