That interaction - which shows President Obama bending down to allow 5-year-old Jacob Philadelphia to touch his hair - was captured on film by White House photographer Pete Souza and has been hanging in the West Wing for years. Kids who say, 'I saw you on TV,' 'I wrote the report on you for school.' Kids like the little Black boy who looked up at my husband, his eyes wide with hope, and he wondered, 'Is my hair like yours?'" "Let me tell you, Barack and I take that same approach to our jobs as president and first lady because we know that our words and actions matter, not just to our girls but the children across this country. We as parents are the most important role model," Obama said. "With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. During her speech, she recounted memories of her family's time in the White House, including one that has touched many Americans. OBAMA MIC DROP: 1999 - YouTube OBAMA MIC DROP: 1999 schmoyoho 3.55M subscribers Subscribe 126K Share 8.9M views 7 years ago Songify the News S2 E20 Get the track.
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Wilmore’s speech also saw the host mentioning the recent deaths of David Bowie, Merle Haggard and Prince, “or as Hillary Clinton calls them, ‘my favorite singer,’ ‘my favorite singer’ and ‘my favorite singer.'” Wilmore’s comments boasted references to Beyoncé – he suggested renaming Fox News’ The Kelly File as Becky With the Good Hair – as well as Sanders supporter Killer Mike.On Monday night, first lady Michelle Obama delivered a mic-drop-worthy speech at the Democratic National Convention, full of quotable lines ("When they go low, we go high"), jabs at Donald Trump (without ever mentioning his name), and calls for citizens to get out there and ensure Hillary Clinton becomes the next president of the United States. President, you’ve busted two time-honored stereotypes: Black does crack, and apparently once you go black, it looks like we are going back. “The president’s hair is so white it keeps saying ‘All Lives Matter.’ All I’m saying is that in less than eight years, Mr. These destructive acts are not interchangeable when Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys, who would have been fine setting fire to a drum, say, dropped his mic at the Brit awards in 2014, it was. “Your hair is so white, it tried to punch me at a Trump rally,” Wilmore told Obama. Wilmore teased the president for how much he has visibly aged since entering the Oval Office eight years ago.
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The Nightly Show‘s Larry Wilmore, who replaced Stephen Colbert in Comedy Central’s post- Daily Show slot, served as the dinner’s host and introduced himself as “a black man who replaced a white man who pretended to be a TV newscaster… so yeah, in that way Lester Holt and I have a lot in common,” a slam on former NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams. Because Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground.” Obama previously blasted Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner – an event attended by the mogul – but Trump’s absence deprived attendees of a sequel. Obama continued, “There’s one area where Donald’s experience could be invaluable, and that’s closing Guantanamo.
Many who saw this clip just thought it was so cool. It ended with the president saying Obama out and dropping his microphone, a gesture that was pretty common in old school hip-hop culture. “Is this dinner too tacky for The Donald? What could he possibly be doing instead? Is he at home, eating a Trump steak, tweeting out insults to Angela Merkel? What’s he doing?” Obama’s final White House Correspondents’ Dinner was perhaps the most publicized Correspondents Dinner of his presidency.
“It is surprising: You’ve got a room full of reporters, celebrities, cameras - and he says no,” Obama said. The president took special aim at Republican frontrunner Trump throughout his speech, even though Trump didn’t attend the dinner. “Next year at this time, someone else will be standing here in this very spot, and it’s anyone’s guess who she will be,” Obama joked about his possible successor. Barack Obama attended his eighth and final White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night in Washington, D.C., and the president made sure to go out with a bang by delivering a biting 20-minute speech that ragged everyone from the media and Congress to presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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