President Barack Obama got really into character during his annual reading of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are at the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House today. He pretended to be one of the wild things — growling, gnashing his teeth, and rolling his eyes. We imagine that one sees a lot of these scary faces in Washington, particularly during heated debates on Capitol Hill.
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