Obama responds to Trump in presidential 'Mean Tweets' with Jimmy Kimmel

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October 25, 2016 at 3:33PM
President Obama reads "Mean Tweets" on "JImmy Kimmel Live."
President Obama reads "Mean Tweets" on "JImmy Kimmel Live." (Randy Salas/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

President Obama is used to being insulted so he's learned to take jabs in his stride, and no where is that more apparent than while reading out "Mean Tweets" on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

The POTUS did the honor for the second and last time during this presidency on Monday, and the ABC late-night show came up with some cutting insults via social media.

"Being President is a tough job, it's one of the only jobs where you get a new approval rating every day, and now that we have this thing called social media the president gets hundreds of judgments every hour of every day," Jimmy Kimmel said. "And tonight, for the second time, President Obama has agreed to read them — for our second-ever Presidential Edition — of 'Mean Tweets.'"

Among the offenses were: "Obama couldn't negotiate getting a Whopper without pickles," and "Just found out my daughter shares a birthday with Obama PUKE."

Our favorite however is, "Barack Obama, do you even lift!?"

"Well, I lifted the ban on Cuban cigars, that's worth something," the outgoing president quipped.

The real clincher came from @realDonaldTrump, however, who tweeted: "President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States!"

In a perfect drop the mic moment to end his term late-night style, Obama replied: "Well, @realDonaldTrump, at least I will go down as a president."

Watch the full flood of insults in the video above.

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