--- description: The photo was retweeted almost 19,000 times within an hour title: Obama and Big Papi took a selfie image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Obama Takes Selfie With 'Big Papi' David Ortiz by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 1, 2014 6:31 PM CUT by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 1, 2014 6:31 PM CUT What do you do when the President asks you to pose for an official photo? Well, if you’re Red Sox player David Ortiz, aka Big Papi, you ask him to take a selfie first. “Do you mind if I take my own?” [Ortiz asked Obama before snapping this gem:](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/04/big-papi-snaps-obama-selfie-with-the-other-sox/ "undefined") > [](https://twitter.com/davidortiz/status/451032513679749120) While the photo isn’t quite in Ellen Degeneres selfie territory, it had been retweeted almost 19,000 times in less than an hour. “It’s the Big Papi selfie,” Obama said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/45616/obama-red-sox-selfie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/45616/obama-red-sox-selfie/"},"headline":"Obama Takes Selfie With 'Big Papi' David Ortiz","datePublished":"2014-04-01T18:31:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:24.463Z","description":"The photo was retweeted almost 19,000 times within an hour","url":"https://time.com/45616/obama-red-sox-selfie/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Barack Obama","Sports topic","Baseball","selfie"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"World","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/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/45616/obama-red-sox-selfie/","name":"Obama Takes Selfie With 'Big Papi' David Ortiz"}}]}] ```