Pete Souza Posts Pics Of What Obama Actually Did In Private Dining Room

U.S. President Barack Obama holds the last news conference of his presidency in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House January 18, 2017 in Washington, DC. This was Obama's final question-and-answer session with reporters before New York real estate mogul and reality television personality Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Friday. — WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 18: White House Chief Photographer Pete Souza makes images of U.S. President Barack Obama during the last news conference of his presidency in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White Hous... WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 18: White House Chief Photographer Pete Souza makes images of U.S. President Barack Obama during the last news conference of his presidency in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House January 18, 2017 in Washington, DC. This was Obama's final question-and-answer session with reporters before New York real estate mogul and reality television personality Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Friday. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS

January 28, 2019 12:15 p.m.

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Obama White House photographer Pete Souza used his cache of pictures to disprove President Donald Trump’s claim that his predecessor sat and “watched basketball all day” in a private dining room he’d let fall into disrepair.

Souza took to Instagram to show what his old boss really did in the private dining room. He added “if you spot the hole in the wall, you win a free trip to visit the medieval concrete wall in Mexico.”

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The first photograph is looking down the short hallway from the Oval Office to President Obama’s private dining room (he’s in the midst of his weekly lunch with Vice President Biden). Comrade Minus claims that when he came into office, the dining room was in “rough shape and had a hole in the wall” (see Josh Dawsey’s article in The Washington Post). “He (Obama) just sat in here and watched basketball all day,” according to minus. Click through the pictures to see what President Obama actually did in the dining room with a variety of people: he had lunch. If you spot the hole in the wall, you win a free trip to visit the medieval concrete wall in Mexico.

A post shared by Pete Souza (@petesouza) on Jan 28, 2019 at 6:36am PST

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hoagie says:

January 28, 2019

My kids gave me Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents as a Hanukkah present. Highly recommend it.
ghost says:

January 28, 2019

Souza has Obama’s back. I suspect Trump’s WH photographer is going to have a very different attitude towards Donnie after he leaves office.
benthere says:

January 28, 2019

Obama has class, Trump is crass. Obama has charm, Trump has counter-charm. Obama is intelligent, Trump is, um, er, well, you know where I am going with this…
matx says:

January 28, 2019

I’d like to see photos from the current WH occupant of the Presidential private dining room–didn’t he have television(s?) installed in it? I do not see a single screen in any of Mr. Souza’s photos.
ronbyers says:

January 28, 2019

OK Spanky where is that mess you have been talking about. Not enough gaudy gold?

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