It’s not exactly a recent discovery that Barack Obama is a bit of a Star Wars tragic. The guy’s even rattled off some of the saga’s biggest lessons as personal mantras, saying “if a kid from Tatooine moisture farm can go from bulls-eyeing womp rats in his T-16 to saving the galaxy, then maybe I can be something special too.”
Which is rad. Also rad: Stormtroopers and R2-D2 in the White House.
R2-D2 is also with @PressSec pic.twitter.com/470gpQDAt6
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) December 18, 2015
If you’re the most powerful dude on the planet though, you might not normally have the time to catch up on the latest flicks.
Today, in his final press conference for the year and days after the release of The Force Awakens, Obama had precisely zero time to waste fielding extra questions; a special screening of the film had been set up as part of the Obama’s commitments to the Gold Star Families For Peace charity, which supports the families of soldiers who’ve died serving in Iraq.
Natch, seeing the biggest blockbuster of the year with some deserving peeps is probably a far sight more pressing than having chit-chat with reporters. Watch him do the Kessel run out of there below:
