President Obama on Thursday spoke at a fundraiser held at the home of actress Gwyneth Paltrow, encouraging attendees to donate cash and help get out the vote for the fall midterm elections.
The president spoke about the usual issues: growing the middle class, making sure the wealthy pay their “fair share” and repairing the economy.
But before addressing the group that had gathered for the Democratic National Committee event, Obama was introduced by Paltrow, a grown woman who believes that water has feelings.
Unsurprisingly, the actress who recently “consciously uncoupled” (a nonsense term for “separated”) from her husband, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, had some very unique things to say.
Here are the top three most embarrassing things that Paltrow actually said in front of other grown adults:
1. Working Girl
Paltrow praised the president for his recent efforts to ensure that women are paid the same as men who work the same job, telling the audience that the issue is “very important to me as a working mother.”
Paltrow makes roughly $16 million per movie.
2. Separation of powers is for suckers
Paltrow is apparently upset that the power of the executive branch is balanced by the judicial and legislative branches of the U.S. government.
“It would be wonderful if we were able to give this man all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass,” she said.
3. Star struck
Before turning over the floor to the president, Paltrow did her best Beatlemania impersonation, giddily telling the president, “you’re so handsome that I can’t speak properly.”
President Obama was far less exciting, wisely sticking to his usual talking points.
“Most of the gains in our economy go to the folks who are in this lovely yard — and the average person has not seen their wages or incomes go up in the last 20 years,” the president said to an audience that had gathered at Paltrow’s posh Los Angeles residence.
He even spoke about Ebola, the deadly virus that has ravaged much of West Africa.
“I want to assure everybody that the likelihood of an epidemic here in the United States is extraordinarily small,” he said.
