Barack Obama Goes Viral As Netizens Examine His Olympic Basketball Workforce Go to To Key & Peele Skit 

A video of Barack Obama goes viral after visiting the USA males’s basketball group as social media customers reacted to its similarities with a well known Key & Peele Comedy Central skit from 2014. 

Within the iconic sketch, Jordan Peele performs the position of Obama greeting a line of supporters. As he makes his method alongside the road, he offers the white onlookers formal greetings whereas exchanging elaborate handshakes with the Black supporters.  

It was the same scene when Obama met Workforce USA’s Olympic basketball group at a showcase earlier than they jet off to the Olympic Video games in Paris later this month.  

He hugged and dapped up every participant in flip, together with Anthony Edwards, Steph Curry and LeBron James, with an intricate handshake earlier than turning to the teaching workers and exchanging extra conventional greetings. 

The clip was extensively shared on social media, with one submit from Barstool Sports activities attracting over 5 million performs on X (Twitter).  

“Obama broke out the previous Key and Peele playbook,” the caption learn.  

Many others shared side-by-side movies of the real-life Obama and the Key & Peele skit. 

In the meantime, Obama branded himself the “Hooper-in-Chief” in a message to the group.  

“I simply wish to come right here to assist ship off the soon-to-be gold medal winners. We invented this recreation and I don’t prefer it once we don’t win,” he mentioned. ”Assuming they play as a group, our expertise will likely be unmatched. I’m assured that they’ll be bringing again the gold and representing us the way in which we needs to be represented world wide.”