6 of the Most Bromantic Moments From Prince Harry and Barack Obama's BBC Interview
2017 might have been a garbage, dumpster-fire year (onward, 2018!), but if there were any bright moments, they came when bromancers-in-chief Prince Harry and Barack Obama got together—meetings that caused a spring-like warmth to creep through the chill of the encroaching nuclear winter. And on Wednesday, we were treated to one last 2017 meeting of the world leaders when guest editor Prince Harry sat Obama down for a BBC Radio 4 interview for the ages. “When Harry Met Barry!” the New York Times proclaimed, minus the obviously implied exclamation mark, and to be honest, we can’t say it any better ourselves. Behold, beloveds, six of the most adorable moments from this power couple’s tête-à-tête.
1. When Harry was trying to find people to appear on his edit of the “Today” program, and Obama was like, there for it. According to the Telegraph, when Harry was recruiting people to come on the show, Obama was “the ‘easiest'” guest to get a response from.
2. When they had themselves a cute quickfire round, and Harry asked Obama if he preferred “The Good Wife” or “Suits” (which his fiancée Meghan Markle starred in), and Obama answered “Suits” because of course he did, and Harry just replied, “Great, great answer,” probably blushing like a schoolboy (we imagine).
3. When Obama admitted he’d totally trust Harry’s movie judgement, which is a Big Deal. During the aforementioned quickfire round, Harry asked Obama to choose between White House Down or Olympus Has Fallen, and Obama was all, “I haven’t seen either of them.” So Harry promptly chose White House Down, and Obama said, “OK, I’ll take your word for it.” Then he fist-bumped Harry and asked when the prince wanted to bro out and watch it in the White House cinema and oh wait…?
4. When Obama banged on about Michelle to Harry like a lad. Tricky Harry tried to get Obama to shade President Donald Trump a little bit, but Obama, like the lawyer he is, flipped the question on its head and proceeded to gush about the former FLOTUS instead. Harry asked Barack what was going through his mind when the former First Family flew away from the White House after Trump’s inauguration. Obama smartly expressed gratitude for having Michelle as a partner during his time in politics. “She is a spectacular, funny, warm person. She’s not someone who was naturally inclined at politics,” he said, adding that he felt “a satisfying feeling that was mixed with all the work that was still undone.”
5. When Obama tried to speak Harry’s language and talked about “going to the pub.” Silly Obama—we call them “bars” in America! (But we see what you’re doing.) To be fair, Obama was raising a serious point about the tendency toward isolation that social media creates: “I think social media is a really powerful tool for people of common interests to convene and get to know each other and connect but then it is important for them to get offline, meet in the pub,” he said.
6. When Harry was playing hard to get about Obama’s invite to his upcoming wedding. Sure, inviting Obama and not the Trumps could touch off an international incident, but what’s that between bros, eh? When Harry was asked about whether he’d invite Obama to the wedding toward the end of his segment, he shied around the question. “I don’t know about that—we haven’t even put the invite or the guest list together,” Harry replied. “Who knows if he’s going to be invited or not? I wouldn’t want to ruin that surprise.” Mhm.
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