When firing off a cutting tweet about a celebrity, most basement warriors assume that the famous person will never actually see the 140 character slam.
That’s why the premise of Jimmy Kimmel’s Mean Tweets segment is so funny—big stars do read your comparisons of them with Nickelback, and it cuts them just as deep as you dreamed it would.
For the second time, President Barack Obama agreed to read aloud all of the ways that people blame him for their less-than-effective hair products and other daily annoyances.
In our write-up of his first appearance on Mean Tweets, we said, “Of course, these weren’t the horrible, racist crazy things that are Tweeted about Obama—it’s not like they had him read Donald Trump’s Tweets.” But you know what they say about sequels: they’ve got to push the limit, and, as Randy from Scream observed, the body count is always bigger.
He responds to Trump’s “President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States!” with, “Well, @realDonalTrump, at least I will go down as a president.” Like many performances the president has given during his final year in office, this one ended in a mic (phone?) drop.
In addition to the Celebrities Read Mean Tweets bit, Obama also sat for an interview with Kimmel, where he discussed (shocker!) the election, and how his daughter Sasha taught him about Snapchat.
Rachel Kurzius