President Obama teases Ellen for ‘cheap shot’ selfie
MSNBC - President Obama teased talk show host Ellen DeGeneres for breaking his record for most retweets of a single tweet during an appearance on The Ellen Show set to air Thursday...
President Obama teased talk show host Ellen DeGeneres for breaking his record for most retweets of a single tweet during an appearance on The Ellen Show set to air Thursday.
DeGeneres told the president she set out to break his record when she posed with more than a half dozen A-list celebrities to tweet out a selfie during the Oscars earlier this month.
“I heard about that. I thought it was a pretty cheap stunt myself, getting a bunch of celebrities in the background,” Obama said.
The president’s 2012 election victory tweet – a picture of him hugging first lady Michelle Obama – has been retweeted more than 780,000 times as of this writing, but DeGeneres took that to a new level. Her post has racked up more than 3.4 million retweets for the photo she snapped with Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong’o and others.
Obama talked about the first family and admitted that, like any dad, he struggles to convince his daughters that he’s cool.
“I really have no complaints except for the fact that increasingly they don’t have that much time for me,” he said. “I am not that interesting.”
But his recent trip to the Gap was a success by that standard. Obama reported that his daughters “did not scowl” at the pink sweaters he bought them. The president visited the Gap to highlight the store’s move to increase its minimum wage to at least $10 an hour. “I thought it was great for me to able to go frequent a store that’s doing right by their employees,” he said to cheers from the Ellen studio audience.
President Obama teased talk show host Ellen DeGeneres for breaking his record for most retweets of a single tweet during an appearance on The Ellen Show set to air Thursday.
DeGeneres told the president she set out to break his record when she posed with more than a half dozen A-list celebrities to tweet out a selfie during the Oscars earlier this month.
“I heard about that. I thought it was a pretty cheap stunt myself, getting a bunch of celebrities in the background,” Obama said.
The president’s 2012 election victory tweet – a picture of him hugging first lady Michelle Obama – has been retweeted more than 780,000 times as of this writing, but DeGeneres took that to a new level. Her post has racked up more than 3.4 million retweets for the photo she snapped with Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong’o and others.
Obama talked about the first family and admitted that, like any dad, he struggles to convince his daughters that he’s cool.
“I really have no complaints except for the fact that increasingly they don’t have that much time for me,” he said. “I am not that interesting.”
But his recent trip to the Gap was a success by that standard. Obama reported that his daughters “did not scowl” at the pink sweaters he bought them. The president visited the Gap to highlight the store’s move to increase its minimum wage to at least $10 an hour. “I thought it was great for me to able to go frequent a store that’s doing right by their employees,” he said to cheers from the Ellen studio audience.
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