# White House Staff prank the President

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-staff-prank-the-president/775192>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 19, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-staff-prank-the-president/775192 "2016-12-19T23:23:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-staff-prank-the-president/775192/1 "2016-12-19T23:23:02Z")

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I felt the need for a light hearted story. It’s been a difficult day.

Funny moment and Barack good-naturedly played along with the gag

> **[White House staff pranks President Obama with terrifying snowmen](https://www.nydailynews.com/2016/12/19/white-house-staff-pranks-president-obama-with-terrifying-snowmen/)**
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> This presidential prank is downright chilling. A snowman with a sinister smile peered through an Oval Office window as President Obama sat at his desk signing end-of-year bills — the product …

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> “We’ve been joking that we should move the snowmen a few feet closer to the Oval Office every day to see if anyone noticed. Then we realized the snowmen were too heavy to easily lift.
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> “But finally this morning before the President came to the office, some helpful staff — I won’t say who — moved all the snowmen so each one was peeking through a different window into the Oval.”

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**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-staff-prank-the-president/775192/2 "2016-12-19T23:53:36Z")

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I feel sorry for the White House staff that stay on for Trump. It’s like Sauron and Mordor taking over.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-staff-prank-the-president/775192/3 "2016-12-20T08:30:41Z")

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Snowmen are just frozen clowns, right? :eek:

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**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-staff-prank-the-president/775192/4 "2016-12-20T14:13:57Z")

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Ugh! This could have gone very badly. I’m glad it was well received.  
Total disaster for Macbeth when they tried a similar gag with trees.

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-staff-prank-the-president/775192/5 "2016-12-20T14:16:37Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> Snowmen are just frozen clowns, right? :eek:

Wrong.  
Killer Snow Goons.

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**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-staff-prank-the-president/775192/6 "2016-12-20T20:51:05Z")

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> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Wrong.  
> Killer Snow Goons.

As long as they stay away from my Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs all will be well. 🆒