Obama Reads Mean Tweets, Discusses Ferguson on Jimmy Kimmel
President Barack Obama took on some of his haters Thursday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live in a special all-president edition of the popular recurring segment “Mean Tweets.’’
As R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts’’ played softly in the background, Obama read some (admittedly not-that-mean) tweets that did everything from blame him for the rising price of Coors Light to mock his taste in jeans.
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The tweets obviously came from some of the president’s more polite critics.
“You should see what the Senate says about me,’’ Obama joked later in the show.
In his interview with Kimmel, Obama turned serious, discussing recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, where two police officers were shot early Thursday morning.
The two officers have been released from the hospital and are expected to recover.
Speaking about whoever fired the shots, Obama said, “They’re criminals. They need to be arrested.’’ However, he said that their actions “shouldn’t detract from the issue’’ of civil rights, an area in which “there is still more work to do.’’
You can watch Obama’s comments in full below:
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