Bizarrely, President Obama’s office never had its own official Twitter account. The White House has an account, and Barack Obama famously has @barackobama, but @POTUS is new. Not sure why they never thought to do this before, but alas….now it’s done. And predictably, POTUS has already been trolled, by none other than former Pres. Bill Clinton.
POTUS’s first tweet:
Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account.
— President Obama (@POTUS) May 18, 2015
Pres. Clinton quickly trolled him:
Welcome to @Twitter, @POTUS! One question: Does that username stay with the office? #askingforafriend
— Bill Clinton (@billclinton) May 18, 2015
The president responded to being trolled with this:
Good question, @billclinton. The handle comes with the house. Know anyone interested in @FLOTUS?
— President Obama (@POTUS) May 18, 2015
If you’ve got to be trolled — and it happens to all of us — it just doesn’t get much better than this.
