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July 22 (IBNS) When it comes to denim, President Barack Obama admits it’s a disaster.

Appearing on Monday’s Today show, he replied to good natured criticism he received for the bleached and baggy “dad jeans” he wore to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in St. Louis July 14.

Despite being married to one of the most fashionable women in the world, Meredith Vieira noted that how the President would defend the pants.

“Michelle, she looks fabulous. I am a little frumpy. Up until a few years ago, I only had four suits. She used to tease me because they would get really shiny,” Obama said.

“I hate to shop,” he then added. “Those jeans are comfortable, and for those of you who want your president to look great in his tight jeans, I’m sorry — I’m not the guy. It just doesn’t fit me. I’m not 20.”

Barack Hussein Obama II , born August 4, 1961, is the 44th and current President of the United States. The first African American to hold the office, he served as the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.

Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

He began his run for the presidency in February 2007. After a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party’s nomination, becoming the first major party African American candidate for president. In the 2008 general election, he defeated Republican candidate John McCain and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009.