--- title: This Baby Dressed as the Pope Won Obama’s Halloween Party description: White House: "Top prize goes to Lil' Pope" canonical: https://time.com/4095415/baby-pope-presdident-obama-halloween-party/ author: Joyce Lee article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-31T15:06:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:41:18.710Z og:title: This Baby Dressed as the Pope Totally Won Obama’s Halloween Party og:description: White House: "Top prize goes to Lil' Pope" og:url: https://time.com/4095415/baby-pope-presdident-obama-halloween-party/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt214fe75f75a9165d/69886f05a988ca689f6b5131/gettyimages-495004268.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2542 og:image:height: 1430 og:image:alt: US President Barack Obama greets a young child dressed as the Pope and riding in a "Popemobile" as he hands out treats to children trick-or-treating for Halloween on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, October 30, 2015. 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Hundreds of children came to get treats from the President and the First Lady and roamed around the enchanted forest-themed South Lawn. ## Transcript [00:00] [ INAUDIBLE ] [ LAUGH ] [ INAUDIBLE ] [00:04] Half price. It's [00:09] half price. [ INAUDIBLE ] [00:14] [ UNKNOWN ] I'm moving [00:18] over there. Yeah. 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