--- title: Barack Obama, Michelle Obama Share 2017 Christmas Photo description: Barack and Michelle Obama wished the country a merry Christmas in a holiday photo posted on Christmas 2017. canonical: https://time.com/5079169/obama-family-christmas-photo-2017/ author: Jamie Ducharme article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-25T16:33:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T18:40:42.698Z article:section: Politics og:title: 'We Wish You Joy and Peace.' See the Obamas' Festive Holiday Photo og:description: "On behalf of the Obama family, Merry Christmas!" og:url: https://time.com/5079169/obama-family-christmas-photo-2017/ 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: 'We Wish You Joy and Peace.' 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It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Jamie Ducharme](https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/)  ## Jamie Ducharme Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Dec 25, 2017 4:33 PM UTC  by [Jamie Ducharme](https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/)  ## Jamie Ducharme Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Dec 25, 2017 4:33 PM UTC Former President Barack Obama posted a photo of his [family celebrating Christmas](http://time.com/4617678/president-obama-michelle-christmas-address/) on Monday morning, and the internet is getting emotional. In the photo, Barack, Michelle, Malia and Sasha Obama are posing in front of a giant Christmas tree surrounded by a crew of young “elves” and plenty of ornately wrapped gifts. “On behalf of the Obama family, Merry Christmas! We wish you joy and peace this holiday season,” Obama wrote in the caption. The photo may have been taken on a previous Christmas. > [](https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/945324527520804866) Thousands of social media users took time out of their own Christmas celebrations to show the photo some love. Just 20 minutes after it was posted, the tweet already had 86,000 likes and the accompanying Facebook post had 100,000\. “All I ask for for Christmas is a president just like you,” one user wrote on Twitter. Earlier on Monday morning, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump [posted a holiday message of their own](http://time.com/5079160/president-trump-merry-christmas-melania/), tweeting a video wishing “America and the entire world” a merry Christmas. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5079169/obama-family-christmas-photo-2017/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5079169/obama-family-christmas-photo-2017/"},"headline":"'We Wish You Joy and Peace.' 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