--- title: President Obama Poses With America’s First Couple description: Commander-in-chief was granted an audience with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West canonical: https://time.com/3691028/president-obama-kim-kardashian-kanye-west/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-31T15:35:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:25.638Z og:title: Here's Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Posing With President Obama og:description: Kim shared it on her Instagram og:url: https://time.com/3691028/president-obama-kim-kardashian-kanye-west/ 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: Here's Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Posing With President Obama twitter:description: Kim shared it on her Instagram twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # President Obama Poses With America's First Couple by [People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## People Jan 31, 2015 3:35 PM UTC by [People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## People Jan 31, 2015 3:35 PM UTC Even [Kim Kardashian](http://www.people.com/people/kim%5Fkardashian) and [Kanye West](http://www.people.com/people/kanye%5Fwest) ask to get an autograph every now and then. Mrs. West shared a photo on [Instagram](http://instagram.com/p/yftEz-uS%5F2/?modal=true) Friday with [President Obama](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:BarackObama,00.html) and Kanye – complete with a personal message from the Commander in Chief himself. “To Kanye & Kim – Thanks for the support and best wishes to your lovely daughter!” the president wrote. The picture was most likely taken in October, when the Wests met POTUS for a sit down at the White House. “Me and my wife met with President Obama two weeks ago,” Kanye [Tweeted](https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/529775458116595712) after the meeting. Although no one knows what the threesome discussed, we’re guessing Obama refrained from [calling the rapper a jackass](http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20302940%5F20304704,00.html) … again. [This article was originally published on _People.com_](http://www.people.com/article/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-president-obama-instagram) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3691028/president-obama-kim-kardashian-kanye-west/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3691028/president-obama-kim-kardashian-kanye-west/"},"headline":"President Obama Poses With America's First Couple","datePublished":"2015-01-31T15:35:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:25.638Z","description":"Commander-in-chief was granted an audience with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West","url":"https://time.com/3691028/president-obama-kim-kardashian-kanye-west/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"People"}],"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/3691028/president-obama-kim-kardashian-kanye-west/","name":"President Obama Poses With America's First Couple"}}]}] ```