--- title: Bill Clinton Wishes Barack Obama a Happy Birthday description: "Hopefully when @FLOTUS isn't looking you can have some cake." canonical: https://time.com/3983994/bill-clinton-barack-obama-birthday-tweet/ author: Tanya Basu article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-04T17:22:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:58:17.442Z article:section: Politics og:title: Bill Clinton Has a Little Fun in Birthday Tweet to Obama og:description: "Hopefully when @FLOTUS isn't looking you can have some cake" og:url: https://time.com/3983994/bill-clinton-barack-obama-birthday-tweet/ 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: Bill Clinton Has a Little Fun in Birthday Tweet to Obama twitter:description: "Hopefully when @FLOTUS isn't looking you can have some cake" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Bill Clinton Has a Little Fun in Birthday Tweet to Obama ## Video: Five Years of Obama's State of the Union [Watch (HLS stream): Five Years of Obama's State of the Union](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/kvaKb5nc.m3u8) (1:29)  _Published 2015-01-19. Watch 5 years of Obama’s State of the Union addresses in 90 seconds._  by [Tanya Basu](https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Aug 4, 2015 5:22 PM UTC  by [Tanya Basu](https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Aug 4, 2015 5:22 PM UTC The 42nd President wished the 44th President a Happy Birthday on Twitter—with a wink toward the First Lady. “Happy birthday, [@**POTUS**](https://twitter.com/POTUS)! Hopefully when [@**FLOTUS**](https://twitter.com/FLOTUS) isn’t looking you can have some cake. [#**44turns54**](https://twitter.com/hashtag/44turns54?src=hash),” Bill Clinton wrote Tuesday on Twitter. Obama turned 54 on Tuesday. Neither Obama nor First Lady Michelle Obama (@FLOTUS) had responded to Clinton’s birthday tweet as of early Tuesday afternoon. > [](https://twitter.com/billclinton/status/628595030756880384) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3983994/bill-clinton-barack-obama-birthday-tweet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3983994/bill-clinton-barack-obama-birthday-tweet/"},"headline":"Bill Clinton Has a Little Fun in Birthday Tweet to Obama","datePublished":"2015-08-04T17:22:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:58:17.442Z","description":"\"Hopefully when @FLOTUS isn't looking you can have some cake\"","url":"https://time.com/3983994/bill-clinton-barack-obama-birthday-tweet/","keywords":["White House","democrats","Barack Obama","Bill Clinton"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tanya Basu","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","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":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3983994/bill-clinton-barack-obama-birthday-tweet/","name":"Bill Clinton Has a Little Fun in Birthday Tweet to Obama"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Five Years of Obama's State of the Union","description":"Watch 5 years of Obama’s State of the Union addresses in 90 seconds.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/kvaKb5nc/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-01-19T19:19:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/kvaKb5nc.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3983994/bill-clinton-barack-obama-birthday-tweet/","duration":"PT1M29S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3983994/bill-clinton-barack-obama-birthday-tweet/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```