Former President Barack Obama, sporting a partially unbuttoned white oxford beneath his jacket, was greeted by hundreds of ecstatic onlookers in New York City on Friday.
Obama exited a coffee shop inside a Fifth Avenue building and waved to the crowds. He held his coffee, put on his sunglasses and boarded his black SUV, one of three in his motorcade.
Hours later, Obama and his eldest daughter, 18-year-old Malia, turned up at the Roundabout Theatre Company to see a Broadway show, a remake of Arthur Miller’s “The Price.”
To clarify, I didn’t mean left the show! Might’ve gone backstage. https://t.co/Aa7rxJ8Y5Q
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) February 25, 2017
Show just ended. The Obama’s joined the standing ovation and left. Then Mark Ruffalo morphed into the Hulk and destroyed the stage. Awkward.
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) February 25, 2017
The father-daughter duo disappeared during intermission, but returned before the show continued. At the conclusion, they joined the audience in a standing ovation before being led out by Secret Service.
Obama was spotted back in his hometown of Chicago in mid-February attending meetings for the Obama Center he is working to build in Jackson Park.
It was the first time Obama has been back home since he delivered his farewell address on Jan. 10. The first family traveled to San Diego following President Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. They vacationed in California and the British Virgin Islands before returning to Washington, D.C., where they will reside until their youngest daughter finishes high school.
Obama started working fulltime out of his Chicago-based post-presidential office the first week of February. Last Wednesday, Obama attended four strategy meetings regarding the South Side facility, which will include a museum, library and event center.
He met with neighborhood leaders at the Obama Foundation’s Hyde Park office and three others about fundraising the hundreds of millions of dollars necessary for construction.
Obama and his family currently reside in Washington, D.C.’s Kalorama neighborhood.
