--- title: Barack Obama Dressed Up as Santa at a Boys and Girls Club description: The former president dropped by a Boys & Girls Club branch in D.C. in a statement outfit — with a festive touch. canonical: https://time.com/5066322/barack-obama-santa/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-15T17:56:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:19.552Z og:title: Barack Obama Got Dressed Up As a Too-Cool-For-School Santa og:description: He was visiting a D.C.-area branch of a Boys & Girls Club og:url: https://time.com/5066322/barack-obama-santa/ 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: Barack Obama Got Dressed Up As a Too-Cool-For-School Santa twitter:description: He was visiting a D.C.-area branch of a Boys & Girls Club twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Barack Obama Dressed Up As Too-Cool-For-School Santa For His Latest Appearance  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 15, 2017 5:56 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 15, 2017 5:56 PM UTC Barack Obama has long made it clear that he loves his [post-presidency leather jacket](http://people.com/style/barack-obama-post-presidency-dad-style-outfits/). And on Thursday, he took that leather jacket with him on his visit to a D.C.-area Boys & Girls Club to visit kids — topping off his fashion-forward look with a festive, seasonally-appropriate red Santa hat. “There’s no better time than the holiday season to reach out and give back to our communities,” he shared on Twitter, along with a photo of the visit. “Great to hear from young people at the Boys & Girls Club in DC today.” The former president was popping by a branch of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington in one of his recent visits to local kids, chatting with about 50 students there and dropping off gifts for them as well, [the Washington _Post_ reports](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/12/14/obama-rocks-a-santa-hat-and-leather-jacket-to-visit-d-c-children-at-boys-and-girls-club/?utm%5Fterm=.080d800b8c07). (You can even see him carrying around a giant sack of gifts as he shakes hands with the excited, screaming kids. Quite a Santa substitute, indeed.) Obama may not be in the Oval Office any longer, but he’s been keeping busy: besides launching the [Obama Foundation, ](http://time.com/5005322/watch-online-michelle-obama-foundation-summit/)reporting for [jury duty](http://time.com/5001289/barack-obama-jury-duty/), and making appearances like this one, he also contributed his voice to the recently successful [Doug Jones campaign](http://time.com/5059509/rosie-odonnell-doug-jones/) for Senate. He and Michelle decided to[ stay in D.C.](http://time.com/money/4801123/obama-trump-house-real-estate-dc/) following the end of his term as president, and currently live in the same neighborhood as Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner. > [](https://twitter.com/KatieMHill/status/941444608621514757) > [](https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/941437447296225280) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5066322/barack-obama-santa/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5066322/barack-obama-santa/"},"headline":"Barack Obama Dressed Up As Too-Cool-For-School Santa For His Latest Appearance","datePublished":"2017-12-15T17:56:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:19.552Z","description":"The former president dropped by a Boys & Girls Club branch in D.C. in a statement outfit — with a festive touch.","url":"https://time.com/5066322/barack-obama-santa/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Barack Obama","Holidays"],"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/5066322/barack-obama-santa/","name":"Barack Obama Dressed Up As Too-Cool-For-School Santa For His Latest Appearance"}}]}] ```