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

A video of Barack Obama goes viral after visiting the USA males’s basketball crew 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 function of Obama greeting a line of supporters. As he makes his approach alongside the road, he offers the white onlookers formal greetings whereas exchanging elaborate handshakes with the Black supporters.  

It was an analogous scene when Obama met Group USA’s Olympic basketball crew 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 employees and exchanging extra conventional greetings. 

The clip was extensively shared on social media, with one publish 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 crew.  

“I simply wish to come right here to assist ship off the soon-to-be gold medal winners. We invented this sport and I don’t prefer it after we don’t win,” he stated. ”Assuming they play as a crew, 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 ought to be represented world wide.”