--- title: President Obama Danced to 'Hotline Bling' With Usher description: President Obama showed off his dancing skills on Saturday while getting down to 'Hotline Bling' with Usher and Janelle Monae. canonical: https://time.com/4543490/obama-dances-to-drake-hotline-bling/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-24T20:55:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:57.362Z og:title: Watch Cool Dad President Obama Dance to 'Hotline Bling' og:description: He's got dad moves og:url: https://time.com/4543490/obama-dances-to-drake-hotline-bling/ 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: Watch Cool Dad President Obama Dance to 'Hotline Bling' twitter:description: He's got dad moves twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Cool Dad President Obama Dance to Drake's 'Hotline Bling' With Usher and Janelle Monae  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 24, 2016 8:55 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 24, 2016 8:55 PM UTC [President Obama](http://time.com/4527343/president-obama-donald-trump-campaign-event/) continued his reign as [the ultimate cool dad](http://time.com/4533841/president-obama-imitates-sasha-malia-phones/) while getting down on Saturday at BET’s “Love and Happiness: A Musical Experience,” the last musical event he’ll be hosting [at the White House as the dad-in-chief](http://time.com/4393990/sasha-obama-twitter-tweets/). POTUS showed off his decidedly dad-like dance moves while jamming to Drake’s wildly popular “Hotline Bling” alongside Usher and Janelle Monae, in a video captured from Usher’s Snapchat. While welcoming his guests earlier that night with his [trademark bad dad jokes](http://time.com/4521755/president-obama-crying-baby-bad-jokes/), Obama promised attendees that he would not twerk; however, when it came to other popular dance trends, all bets were off, at least according to one guest. > [](https://twitter.com/jamespoyser/status/789702111122644992) Obama’s enjoyment of Drizzy shouldn’t come as a surprise, however; [he recently included Drake and Jay-Z on his workout playlist](http://time.com/4536504/obamas-workout-playlist-spotify/). You can watch Obama get his groove on below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4543490/obama-dances-to-drake-hotline-bling/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4543490/obama-dances-to-drake-hotline-bling/"},"headline":"Watch Cool Dad President Obama Dance to Drake's 'Hotline Bling' With Usher and Janelle Monae","datePublished":"2016-10-24T20:55:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:57.362Z","description":"He's not a regular dad, he's a cool dad","url":"https://time.com/4543490/obama-dances-to-drake-hotline-bling/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Barack Obama","politics","Music","celebrity","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"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/4543490/obama-dances-to-drake-hotline-bling/","name":"Watch Cool Dad President Obama Dance to Drake's 'Hotline Bling' With Usher and Janelle Monae"}}]}] ```