Obama recreates hilarious Key & Peele skit with USA basketball players

Everyone seemed to be thinking the same thing after seeing a video of Barack Obama meeting up with the USA Men’s Basketball team on Wednesday.

The former American president visited the star-studded team — which features some of the NBA’s biggest names in LeBron James and Steph Curry — during the USA Basketball’s 50th anniversary party on Wednesday. A video that captured him saying hello to the players and staff has quickly blown up across social media.

Key and Peele sketch Team USA edition pic.twitter.com/EURtfrn3Cd

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The video captures Obama dapping up Curry, James, and Anthony Davis before going for a more formal handshake with some staff members of the team. It resembled a skit put together by Key & Peele in 2014.

As you would imagine, the internet found this interaction absolutely hilarious.

It is literally exactly how the skit went. Wow

— James Jinnette (@james_jinnette1) July 11, 2024

Word for word bar for bar😂

— MacManMiller (@DAndreXMiller) July 11, 2024

That’s absolutely incredible lol

— DJ Martinez (@DJMartinez06) July 11, 2024

He knew EXACTLY what he was doing 😭

— TIME IS DUE ⏳ (@justkoolie) July 11, 2024

LMAOOOOO

— Macaiyla (@macaiyla) July 11, 2024

Ironically enough, the Key & Peele sketch was inspired by Obama, who had a similar moment back in 2012 when meeting up with another NBA superstar in Kevin Durant.

@kicks This video is definitely in the hall of fame 😭 #nba #basketball #sports #kicks #kd #obama ♬ original sound – KICKS

Following last night’s epic handshake moment, Obama was in attendance to watch Team USA’s first Paris Olympics exhibition game at T-Mobile Arena. They were going up against Canada and wound up walking away with an 86-72 victory.

While not intentional on Obama’s part, this video has quickly gone viral and is something fans will continue to share laughs over for a long time to come.

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