As President Obama was wrapping up one of his last days of time off in Hawaii, White House reporter David Nakamura of the Washington Post was moved by a rainbow sighting over the first family’s vacation home.
In a Friday pool report — the write-ups of public events by individual reporters selected to represent the regular White House press corps — Nakamura detailed the apparently inspiring vision.
“[The president’s] motorcade emerged from Kailua at 7:40 a.m., just after a full and brilliant rainbow appeared over his neighborhood,” Nakamura wrote in the report, as Obama made his way to a local gym. “Your press pool got out and took photos but alas [the rainbow] disappeared before the presidential motorcade rolled by for what would have been a picture that launched a thousand metaphors.”
He also shared the photo of the rainbow with his nearly 11,000 followers on Twitter.
Nakamura is not the only reporter affected by rainbows while covering the president. Michael Schmidt, a reporter for the New York Times who is also covering Obama’s stay in Hawaii, filed a similar pool report just days prior.
“The pool did not see [Obama] as he entered the luau but we did spot a rainbow,” Schmidt wrote at the time.
