--- title: Barack Obama Shared the Best Birthday Message for Joe Biden description: Obama sent birthday greetings to his former vice president in the form of a meme, to the delight of the internet. canonical: https://time.com/5032254/barack-obama-joe-biden-birthday-twitter/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-20T21:07:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T08:32:23.494Z og:title: Barack Obama Shared the Best Birthday Message for Joe Biden og:description: It really is a bromance og:url: https://time.com/5032254/barack-obama-joe-biden-birthday-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0438ec56f0f91f4e/6988e67fe76ad25a9163002e/joe-biden-barack-obama.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: President Obama Makes At Statement At White House After Presidential Election og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Barack Obama Shared the Best Birthday Message for Joe Biden twitter:description: It really is a bromance twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0438ec56f0f91f4e/6988e67fe76ad25a9163002e/joe-biden-barack-obama.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Barack Obama Had the Best Birthday Message for His Favorite Buddy Joe Biden > Sponsored content. 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Prince Harry had a surprise in store for the Invictus Games on Friday — former president Barack Obama and former vice president Joe Biden_  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Nov 20, 2017 9:07 PM UTC Prince Harry had a surprise in store for the Invictus Games on Friday — former president Barack Obama and former vice president Joe Biden  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Nov 20, 2017 9:07 PM UTC Barack Obama and Joe Biden continue to [share an unbreakable bond](http://time.com/barack-obama-joe-biden-friendship-photos/) of picture-perfect bromance. Today’s evidence comes in the form an Obama tweet, in which the former president wished his former vice president a happy birthday — and created a meme in the process. In lighthearted fashion, Obama chose to poke fun at Biden, adding a creative caption to a candid photo of the two political partners snapped while Obama was making a speech — with Biden upstaging him from the background. He even followed a popular meme construct in the process; just see these [previously](https://twitter.com/Reverend%5FScott/status/538764076466581504) [viral](https://twitter.com/Reverend%5FScott/status/563736936121393152) tweets of the two for background. “Happy birthday to @JoeBiden, my brother and the best vice president anybody could have,” Obama added — ending the tweet on a sweetly heartfelt note. > [](https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/932685522820042754) This is not the first time the two have sent noteworthy viral messages to each other over social media, of course. Who could forget the time Biden posted a picture of [friendship bracelets](http://time.com/4439262/barack-obama-birthday-joe-biden/) on the occasion of Obama’s own birthday a year ago? After eight years, they certainly forged a friendship for the ages. ## Transcript [00:00] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [00:04] [ APPLAUSE ] [00:09] [ APPLAUSE ] [00:14] [ INAUDIBLE ] [ APPLAUSE ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5032254/barack-obama-joe-biden-birthday-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5032254/barack-obama-joe-biden-birthday-twitter/"},"headline":"Barack Obama Had the Best Birthday Message for His Favorite Buddy Joe Biden","datePublished":"2017-11-20T21:07:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-12T08:32:23.494Z","description":"Joe.","url":"https://time.com/5032254/barack-obama-joe-biden-birthday-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Barack Obama","Joe Biden","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0438ec56f0f91f4e/6988e67fe76ad25a9163002e/joe-biden-barack-obama.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0438ec56f0f91f4e/6988e67fe76ad25a9163002e/joe-biden-barack-obama.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Obama Makes At Statement At White House After Presidential Election","caption":"President Obama Makes At Statement At White House After Presidential Election","creditText":"Alex Wong—Getty Images","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":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5032254/barack-obama-joe-biden-birthday-twitter/","name":"Barack Obama Had the Best Birthday Message for His Favorite Buddy Joe Biden"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Prince Harry Brings Two Special Guests to the Invictus Games — Barack Obama and Joe Biden!","description":"Prince Harry had a surprise in store for the Invictus Games on Friday — former president Barack Obama and former vice president Joe Biden","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/kUhayPxP/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-09-30T15:39:51.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/kUhayPxP.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5032254/barack-obama-joe-biden-birthday-twitter/","duration":"PT30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5032254/barack-obama-joe-biden-birthday-twitter/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```