Obama reads mean tweets as part of Jimmy Kimmel show

President Barack Obama talks with Jimmy Kimmel in between taping segments of Jimmy Kimmel Live! at the El Capitan Entertainment Center in Los Angeles, Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama talks with Jimmy Kimmel in between taping segments of Jimmy Kimmel Live! at the El Capitan Entertainment Center in Los Angeles, Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. AP

LOS ANGELES, United States — President Barack Obama entertained Jimmy Kimmel’s audience with some of the mean tweets sent his way.

An example: “Barack Obama, bro do you even lift?”

The president replies: “Well, I lifted the ban on Cuban cigars. That’s worth something.”

The president appeared on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” during the middle of his three-day visit to Nevada and California, where he was campaigning and raising money for presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and other Democratic candidates.

Obama discussed some of his own social media habits with Kimmel. He said that, unlike Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, “I don’t tweet at 3 a.m. about people who insult me.” CBB

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