--- description: Barack Obama Facebook page makes a Justin Timberlake reference "It's gonna be May." title: Barack Obama Facebook page joins "It's Gonna Be May" meme image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Barack Obama's Facebook Page Joins 'It's Gonna Be May' Meme  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer May 1, 2014 5:49 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer May 1, 2014 5:49 PM CUT  Organizing for Action’s Barack Obama Facebook page posted a [photo](https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/photos/a.53081056748.66806.6815841748/10152277260361749/?type=1&stream%5Fref=10 "undefined") late Wednesday of President Barack Obama looking at Justin Timberlake’s phone with the caption “It’s gonna be May,” a riff on a popular online meme. The post has racked up more than 400,000 shares. Organizing for Action’s [@BarackObama Twitter account](https://twitter.com/BarackObama/statuses/339838701720989696 "undefined") tweeted the same photo last year on May 29, along with a reference to the Grammy Award-winning singer’s 2013 single “Suit & Tie”. Suits and ties. h/t [@jtimberlake](https://twitter.com/jtimberlake?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw "undefined") [pic.twitter.com/CtmkSbQTBu](http://t.co/CtmkSbQTBu "undefined") — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) [May 29, 2013](https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/339838701720989696?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw "undefined") The pop star [performed](http://www.mtv.com/news/1705308/justin-timberlake-white-house-performance-president-obama/ "undefined") at the White House a month before as part of the concert [“In Performance At The White House: Memphis Soul.”](http://www.pbs.org/inperformanceatthewhitehouse/shows/memphis-soul/ "undefined") “It’s gonna be May” is a popular misheard lyric from \*NSYNC’s 2000 hit “It’s Gonna Be Me.” While it may seem like the page is out of touch if the lyric is wrong, the line has actually become a [very popular meme](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-gonna-be-may "undefined") that Internet users share in the walk-up to May. The picture reminds us of past viral photos aimed at millennial voters, such as the White House website with [GIFs of cats and twerking](http://time.com/27571/there-are-cat-gifs-on-whitehouse-gov-right-now/ "undefined") and that time the White House tried to [make fetch happen again.](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/08/13/the-white-house-made-a-mean-girls-joke-on-twitter-and-it-was-awesome/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/84527/barack-obamas-facebook-page-joins-its-gonna-be-may-meme/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/84527/barack-obamas-facebook-page-joins-its-gonna-be-may-meme/"},"headline":"Barack Obama's Facebook Page Joins 'It's Gonna Be May' Meme","datePublished":"2014-05-01T17:49:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:41.666Z","description":"The page re-shares a photo that also went viral in May 2013.","url":"https://time.com/84527/barack-obamas-facebook-page-joins-its-gonna-be-may-meme/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"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/84527/barack-obamas-facebook-page-joins-its-gonna-be-may-meme/","name":"Barack Obama's Facebook Page Joins 'It's Gonna Be May' Meme"}}]}] ```