--- title: Barack Obama Birthday: Joe Biden Shares Friendship Bracelet description: Vice President Joe Biden took to Twitter to send his best wishes to his boss — and to prove they're actually best buds after all this time. canonical: https://time.com/4439262/barack-obama-birthday-joe-biden/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-04T18:11:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:08.108Z og:title: Joe Biden Had The Most Adorable Birthday Message for Barack Obama og:description: The VP took to Twitter to send his best wishes to POTUS and prove they're buds. og:url: https://time.com/4439262/barack-obama-birthday-joe-biden/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Joe Biden Had The Most Adorable Birthday Message for Barack Obama twitter:description: The VP took to Twitter to send his best wishes to POTUS and prove they're buds. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Joe Biden Had the Most Adorable Birthday Message for Barack Obama > Sponsored content. 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And it would have to [make a social media splash](http://time.com/4434637/joe-biden-white-house-staffers-wedding/?iid=sr-link2), too — because are you really #BFFL if all the world doesn’t know it? So Biden took to Twitter for the big moment, sharing this nostalgic image of friendship bracelets Thursday, and officially cementing his spot as Obama’s most devoted bud. Eight years later, and he’s still got his back. > [](https://twitter.com/VP/status/761253705341480962) It’s as if the two politicians have been hanging out at summer camp in the Adirondacks and not stuck in the White House all these years. Looks like the denizens of Twitter are into it, too: > [](https://twitter.com/captainkdrama/status/761253833238519809) > [](https://twitter.com/thomasav/status/761254097140023297) > [](https://twitter.com/dxcoulon/status/761254173010649088) > [](https://twitter.com/jsneedles/status/761255653004365824) > [](https://twitter.com/OleSamiOle/status/761256128684576768) > [](https://twitter.com/bobcorrigan/status/761257110189379584) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4439262/barack-obama-birthday-joe-biden/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4439262/barack-obama-birthday-joe-biden/"},"headline":"Joe Biden Had the Most Adorable Birthday Message for Barack Obama","datePublished":"2016-08-04T18:11:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:08.108Z","description":"Vice President Joe Biden took to Twitter to send his best wishes to his boss — and to prove they're actually best buds after all this time.","url":"https://time.com/4439262/barack-obama-birthday-joe-biden/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Barack Obama","politics","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4439262/barack-obama-birthday-joe-biden/","name":"Joe Biden Had the Most Adorable Birthday Message for Barack Obama"}}]}] ```