Obama Calls Kanye a Jackass Audio

by Elizabeth Fairview | September 16th, 2009

Obama had some choice words for Kanye West. (Wikimedia Images)

It's official. Barack Obama is a president of the people and is totally on the ball when it comes to his pop culture news. Obama was recently in a press conference and commented on the whole Kanye West-Taylor Swift debacle: "I thought that was really inappropriate. She was getting an award, why are you butting in? The young lady seems like a perfectly nice person, she's getting her award, what's he doing up there? He's a jackass."

Obama was speaking off the record, however the audio stream leaked by ABC News anyway. Terry Moran, who co-hosts Nightline, posted this update on the micro-blogging website last night saying: "Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a 'jackass' for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential."

Taylor Swift has accepted an apology made by West after she made an appearance on The View and complained that West had not yet offered her a personal apology.