Oh snap! Did President Barack Obama really just insult Ellen DeGeneres' retweet record-breaking Oscar selfie? Oh yes he did, but he was only kidding, even though she did use pizza to press her advantage.
Prior to the selfie seen 'round the world, Obama held the coveted record of most retweeted photo on Twitter with his heart-warming "Four more years" tweet, in which he is pictured giving Michelle a bear hug. Obama held the retweet record for almost two years before Ellen's Oscars selfie deposed his presidential post.
The infamous selfie included Ellen (obviously), Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Lupita Nyong'o, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Meryl Streep, Jared Leto sort of) and Kevin Spacey. Before she took the selfie, Ellen joked that she hoped to break the retweet record that very night and she actually did it, much to Obama's chagrin.
"I don't know if you know this, but I was aiming to break your record of retweets, and I apologize for doing it," Ellen told Obama, when he joined her to chat about health care on Thursday. "But I broke your retweet record."
Obama quickly responded, saying that he was totally unimpressed by her selfie. He even jokingly accused her of cheating to get the record.
"I thought it was a pretty cheap stunt myself," Obama joked, "Getting a bunch of celebrities in the background, feeding them pizza."
It almost seems that the pizza part of the equation is most egregious to Obama. Tsk, tsk, Ellen, a bribe? A junk food bribe? What would Michelle say?
Lucky for Ellen, Michelle wasn't around. When asked how he was faring alone in the White House, Obama said he's behaving well, eating "carrot sticks along with potato chips." Ellen teased the President about his bed-making abilities and Obama admitted that without Michelle, "things get a little slovenly around the house, socks everywhere."
Obama also mentioned that he does watch "House of Cards" and that Michelle has seen "Scandal" a time or two. He said that things aren't as dramatic in the White House as Spacey would have us believe.
"If you followed me, most of my day is sitting in a room, listening to a bunch of folks in grey suits talking about a whole bunch of stuff that wouldn't make very good television," Obama said.
Somehow, with Russia acting like it's 1980 all over again, nobody really believed him.
