(NEWSER) – Gary Lee had zero tweets to his name as of Jan. 12. That changed in a big way on Jan. 13, when he posted this series of tweets about his Korean heritage and suddenly became Twitter famous, reports Yahoo News. Lee once worked as a staffer in the Obama White House, and in one of the tweets, he explains that he visited the Oval Office on his last day in 2011, and Obama greeted him by saying “hello” in Korean. Official photographer Pete Souza captured Lee’s delighted reaction, and Lee then recounts how fellow White House staffer (and actor) Kal Penn teared up when Lee told him about the exchange. “Think about what you just said,” he recalls Penn saying. “How incredible that is. On your last day of work at the White House, after your years of service, the first African-American president greeted you in your parents’ native language. I started crying too.”
Lee, who was leaving the White House to go study in South Korea, says his parents “could never have fathomed” such an encounter.
That’s funny, Obama for eight years said “F*** you” to me in my parents’ native language.
WGAF.
Given some of the Q Anon posts I’ve read concerning Hussein’s alleged clandestine involvement with North Korea when he was in office, I’m not surprised.
Started trolling for Asian boys too late huh? He was always a dumb fuck.
Another example of overrating Obama. He learns one word of Korean and is deemed sensitive and compassionate beyond measure.
If GW Bush or Trump did that to an American of Korean heritage, you know goddamn well it would be reported as racist condescension.
Obama the opportunist. Had a photographer standing by for his moment? How convenient.
What would be “amazing” to me would be to see a perp-walk parade of all those involved in the unfolding scandals. Including Barry.
Aside from being a manufactured moment, looking at this guy’s girth, we now know what happened to the kenyan’s dogs. Probably a couple of cats, too.
Good thing Lee wasn’t Austrian.
I always say “xiexie” to the delivery guy from the Chinese place when he drops off my order. But he never cried over it. And nobody made a big deal about it.
Obama says one Korean word and we’re supposed to squeal like over-indulgent stage moms? I think I’ll pass.
Boy, the bar was so low for this guy.
Too bad Barky couldn’t display his cunning linguistics for the benefit of Otto Warmbier. Did you shed a tear over that, Gary Lee?
About as warm as a bucket of spit.
Hope this guy stays away from the border, the solders are starving, they would eat that little fat fuck.
Obama speaks one word of Korean, and he is a national treasure. Melania Trump holds conversations with crippled children in 5 different languages and she gets mocked by the left as an airhead.
I think it is condesending to address an ethnic minority in their perceived “native language” especially from someone not of the same ethnic group. The person might be American going back generations, not even understand their ancestors’ language and be insulted at the implication that they are some how ” foreign” because they are not Caucasian. Maybe that’s just me because I hate it when folks start jabbering to me in a foreign language based solely on how I look.
@TonyR; It’s probably a matter of expectations. Obama is not nearly as smart as his legend would have you believe else he wouldn’t have spent over a million dollars (of campaign contributions, which is illegal) blocking attempts to get his transcripts and other student file data from Columbia, Harvard and I presume Occidental College. No other President has ever done this. So if Obama learned a single word of Korean to bid farewell to some WhiteHouse thrall it was quite an accomplishment for a person of his limited intellect whereas for a mind like Melania Trump speaking to kids in five languages is childs play.
Interesting to read how emotional Kal Penn was. I wonder whether that was before or after Obama lost interest in him and he was beaten and mugged one night in DC and within a few days resigned to go back to Hollywood. I wonder whether Obama learned the word for goodbye in New Jersey for his departure.
The Muslim Homosexual only insult white Americans but never will insult the criminal illegal aliens,or criminal Muslim.
No really, I heard that Obola even invited this guy to go trapshooting.
Because we all know that Obola loved him some trapshooting.
Wasn’t Kal Penn another one of Obama’s “butt buddies’ after Reggie Love was outed in a college video? nah….couldn’t be…..