“Nobody had seen Obama like this before,” said those who were at the great party that the former president of the United States held at his Martha’s Vineyard mansion.
Barack Obama turned 60 years old and celebrated it over the weekend in an event that, in principle, was going to have more than 470 guests, but later, due to health restrictions due to the advance of the covid, it was reduced by half.
“Obama is adjusting to what could be a long post-presidency as media mogul, writer and occasional politician ”, publish this monday The Washington Post. “The former president celebrated his 60th birthday at his $ 11.75 million mansion with family, longtime friends, and well-known names like John Legend, who sang ‘happy birthday’ in a tent full of attendees,” the media added. .
Although the celebration was expected to be outdoors, due to the delta variant of the coronavirus and following the protocols of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, social networks showed that not everything happened outside.
At one point, Obama, dressed in white pants and a beaded necklace, danced on stage under the marquee with a live performance of the singer “Birthday B! Itch.”
In a video posted to Instagram by Erykah Badu, Obama could be seen holding a microphone and dancing in the middle of a raised track.
Other attendees posted photos on Instagram and Twitter, but they were deleted hours later. Daily Mail.
“I had to remove everything because of the rules,” Beckham explained, according to NYPost. “It was epic without a doubt. If any video comes out, it will go viral. He danced the whole time. Nobody had seen Obama like this before, “he added.
Despite the ban, many photos were leaked, so it could be seen that Obama’s birthday party was a night full of food, high-end cocktails and a lot of entertainment “despite the threat of the increase of the variant delta coronavirus, “expanded the Daily Mail.
Video of Obama’s maskless Martha’s Vineyard birthday party before Erykah Badu deleted it pic.twitter.com/ge0k23XioV
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Among the guests were Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Jennifer Hudson, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Bradley Cooper, Don Cheadle, Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade, Bruce Springsteen, Erykah Badu, Steven Colbert, and John Kerry.
Obama’s image
Photos of attendees smoking marijuana at the party were also leaked and most of the attendees were seen not wearing a mask, something that has generated reactions in the networks since the former president was one of the biggest drivers of its use to prevent expansion of the virus.
Will it be detrimental to Obama’s image? It is difficult to know for sure, but the issue of covid-19 is still very sensitive in the United States. In addition, the inequality debate is also at the center of the scene, and a party of this nature, so lavish and with the former leader surrounded by mega stars of the show, does not help.