--- title: Leonardo DiCaprio and President Obama: Twitter Reaction Chat description: A photo shared by the White House on Twitter of President Obama speaking with Leonardo DiCaprio has gone viral with the Internet captioning. canonical: https://time.com/4508249/president-obama-leonardo-dicaprio-discussion/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-26T19:59:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:00.557Z og:title: What Everyone Thinks Leo DiCaprio and Obama Are Discussing og:description: Titanic, Inception, and his bro squad og:url: https://time.com/4508249/president-obama-leonardo-dicaprio-discussion/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a325e4236f3afdb/6988a78a2dce015af59eac99/dicaprio-obama-2016.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: dicaprio-obama-2016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: What Everyone Thinks Leo DiCaprio and Obama Are Discussing twitter:description: Titanic, Inception, and his bro squad twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a325e4236f3afdb/6988a78a2dce015af59eac99/dicaprio-obama-2016.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's What the Internet Thinks President Obama and Leonardo DiCaprio Are Discussing > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=eb8f4d0c-ed28-4163-b0c2-ef704adc78db&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 26, 2016 7:59 PM UTC  (Courtesy: White House / Twitter)  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 26, 2016 7:59 PM UTC In case you’ve got a case of the Monday blues, look no further than seeing this very excellent photo of [President Barack Obama](http://time.com/4506800/barack-obama-african-american-history-museum-transcript/), [charming leader of the free world](http://time.com/4313643/white-house-correspondents-dinner-2016-president-obama-video/) and [ultimate cool dad](http://time.com/4313615/malia-obama-harvard-barack-gap-year/) and [Leonardo DiCaprio](http://time.com/4506800/barack-obama-african-american-history-museum-transcript/), delightful actor, [bear-fighting environmentalist](http://time.com/2890285/leonardo-dicaprio-state-department-ocean-conservation/) deep in a riveting conversation. Thanks to the White House Twitter account, which posted this very exemplary photo of the two ahead of the President’s South by South Lawn festival ([a riff on Austin’s South by Southwest](http://time.com/4244934/barack-michelle-obama-sxsw/)) where they will apparently be discussing “combating climate change,” we now have this gem of a photo to both admire and speculate about the conversation the pair were having. > [](https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/780146904390733824) Of course, the Internet had lots of ideas of what POTUS and Leo were discussing and needless to say, not many of them involved climate change. Some people thought that Barack wanted to chat about Titanic’s ending. > [](https://twitter.com/DLin71/status/780414582036766720) And _The Revenant_ was bound to make an appearance. > [](https://twitter.com/darth/status/780222134958247936) As was _Inception_. > [](https://twitter.com/john%5Falvarado%5F1/status/780270188298022912) However, some Internet users were just happy to see two of their favorite people in one picture. > [](https://twitter.com/binnxks/status/780382093079490561) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4508249/president-obama-leonardo-dicaprio-discussion/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4508249/president-obama-leonardo-dicaprio-discussion/"},"headline":"Here's What the Internet Thinks President Obama and Leonardo DiCaprio Are Discussing","datePublished":"2016-09-26T19:59:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:00.557Z","description":"Real recognize real","url":"https://time.com/4508249/president-obama-leonardo-dicaprio-discussion/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Barack Obama","politics","Internet","twitter","Leonardo DiCaprio"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a325e4236f3afdb/6988a78a2dce015af59eac99/dicaprio-obama-2016.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a325e4236f3afdb/6988a78a2dce015af59eac99/dicaprio-obama-2016.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"dicaprio-obama-2016","caption":"","creditText":"(Courtesy: White House / Twitter)","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/4508249/president-obama-leonardo-dicaprio-discussion/","name":"Here's What the Internet Thinks President Obama and Leonardo DiCaprio Are Discussing"}}]}] ```