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May 26, 2015
A nostalgic Barack Obama reportedly spent most of the previous weekend in his personal bedroom, White House sources in the White House sources close to the Presidentinformed The Dealer, combing through the itemsthings hethe President used to keep in had at one point placed in the Presidential hope chesthisthe White House hope chest., report sources close to the president.
Reports indicate that shortly after President Obama got out of bedawoke on Friday, he was overcome by a wave of wistfulness which prevented him from any undertaking save besides the reexamination of mementos preserved from his childhood. he became so wistfulinsome at the sight of the thick rain falling around the White House that he didn’t feel like doing anything except going through the mementoes he’d saved from his childhood. Sources speculate that this tide of Presidential nostalgia wistfulnesswas at least partly driven by ausedat least it had something to do with thethe morning wash of drizzle and fog surrounding the White House that morning.
“It was very unlike him. Barack irry iss usually so get-up-and-go in the mornings,” said First Lady Michelle Obama. “But when I woke up, I saw him just staring out the window sipping a cup of tea. He must have stood there for fifteen minutes without saying anything.”
Obama thenwent on to ask two agents on his Secret Service detail iwhetherf they could “get the old chest“ down from its place in the White House attic, where the chest is stored. After the agents set the chestit down in Obama’shis bedroom, the Presidenthe asked that everyone but Mrs. Obama to leave the room, and closed the door. OnlookerSources reported thatsay the chest iwas made ofconstructed from aa very handsome polished oak, weathered through d by age and the love of generations.
“The first thing he pulled out was an old, faded Hawaiian shirt,” Mrs. Obama told The Dealer.. “He said, ‘W ‘when I was seven, this was my favorite shirt in the entire world. I put it in the chest so I could wear it at my wedding. We think such stupid things when we’re young, but, then when we grow up we learn the truth.’ Then he just stared at it for maybe five minutes. I thought he might cry,” said the First Lady said.
According to Michelle rs. Obama, her husband then rwithdrewemovedpulled out withdrew an old fraying basketball and a heavily deeply dented Frisbee, turning each over in his hands several times. At that point, Mrs. Obama then left the room to find her daughters.
“I told them, ‘Dad is going through a pretty tough time right now. H, he’s looking through a lot of things from a long time ago. But I just want you to know that whatever seems wrong with him has nothing to do with you. Your Dad and I both love you very much,‘,” said Michelle Obamathe First Lady reported duringin a press conference.
Around 1:00 one o’clockpm, t The President was seen wandering through the White House kitchen in a bath-robe and slippers, refusing all requests for help., Hhe tookcollected only a bowl, a box of Lucky Charms Cereal, and a half-empty gallon of milk, and returned to his room. Michelle Obama said, “when I went back inside he was eating cereal an Obama Inauguration commemorative spoon and sobbing openly. He looked up and asked me ‘why can’t we go back’ then kept eating cereal. It was very disconcerting.”
