--- title: Tonight Show: Jimmy Fallon Remixes George H.W. Bush, Raps MC Hammer description: Former president raps along to MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This", courtesy of The Tonight Show's editing team, in a clip to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Bush's time in office canonical: https://time.com/50958/george-hw-bush-raps-on-tonight-show-with-jimmy-fallon/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-06T14:58:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:32.687Z og:title: Tonight Show: Jimmy Fallon Remixes George H.W. Bush, Raps MC Hammer og:description: Former president raps along to MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This", courtesy of The Tonight Show's editing team, in a clip to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Bush's time in office og:url: https://time.com/50958/george-hw-bush-raps-on-tonight-show-with-jimmy-fallon/ 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: Tonight Show: Jimmy Fallon Remixes George H.W. Bush, Raps MC Hammer twitter:description: Former president raps along to MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This", courtesy of The Tonight Show's editing team, in a clip to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Bush's time in office twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's George H.W. Bush Rapping, Thanks to Jimmy Fallon by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 6, 2014 2:58 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 6, 2014 2:58 PM UTC To celebrate the 25th anniversary of George H.W. Bush’s presidency, Jimmy Fallon urged us all to remember the _other_ H.W. Bush: the one who was also a rapper. Well, kind of. The _Tonight Show_ host pieced together snippets of the former President’s past speeches to provide us with this little gem of a video: George H.W. Bush rapping MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This.” Who knew that 41 was dope on the floor and magic on the mic? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/50958/george-hw-bush-raps-on-tonight-show-with-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/50958/george-hw-bush-raps-on-tonight-show-with-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"Here's George H.W. Bush Rapping, Thanks to Jimmy Fallon","datePublished":"2014-04-06T14:58:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:32.687Z","description":"Former president raps along to MC Hammer's \"U Can't Touch This\", courtesy of The Tonight Show's editing team, in a clip to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Bush's time in office","url":"https://time.com/50958/george-hw-bush-raps-on-tonight-show-with-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","jimmy fallon","tonight show","The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"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/50958/george-hw-bush-raps-on-tonight-show-with-jimmy-fallon/","name":"Here's George H.W. Bush Rapping, Thanks to Jimmy Fallon"}}]}] ```