White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters while en route to Texas Tuesday that the president and first lady did not kiss during the first “Kiss Cam” moment at Monday night’s basketball game because they didn’t realize they were supposed to.
“I will say that this incident was the subject of some high-level conversations on the helicopter en route to Andrews Air Force Base this morning,” Earnest said.
Here’s what happened:
I can tell you, based on a very good source, that reports the president was rebuffed are false. The president and first lady enjoyed the basketball game yesterday. During the first half, they were sitting in the stands, noticed that their images were on the large screen, smiled, did not recognize that their images were on the screen in conjunction with the Kiss Cam. So it was not until halftime, when the president and first lady saw their daughters and their daughters asked them why they didn’t kiss during the Kiss Cam segment. They remarked that they did not recognize they were on the screen during the Kiss Cam segment, and so during act two of the Kiss Cam promotion, the president took advantage to steal a kiss from his wife.
