--- description: "Hopefully when @FLOTUS isn't looking you can have some cake." title: Bill Clinton Has a Little Fun in Birthday Tweet to Obama image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [White House](/tag/white-house/) ## White House Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Bill Clinton Has a Little Fun in Birthday Tweet to Obama  by [Tanya Basu](/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 4, 2015 5:22 PM CUT  by [Tanya Basu](/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 4, 2015 5:22 PM CUT 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 "undefined")! Hopefully when [@**FLOTUS**](https://twitter.com/FLOTUS "undefined") isn’t looking you can have some cake. [#**44turns54**](https://twitter.com/hashtag/44turns54?src=hash "undefined"),” 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":"2026-02-22T09:53:10.769Z","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"}}] ```