President Obama got a little stern Wednesday night and used his “dad skills” to reprimand a heckler at a White House event celebrating Pride Month.
“OK. You know what. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. No, no, no, no.”
“Listen, you’re in my house,” Obama said to a heckler as the crowd laughed and began to applaud him.
“It’s not respectful when you get invited to somebody’s…” he continued before he was interrupted again by the heckler, Jennicet Gutiérrez, 29, of Los Angeles.
Gutiérrez, founder of a LGBTQ Latina advocacy group in Los Angeles, had been heckling the President about alleged “bad conditions” of LGBTQ immigrants, according to ABC News.
“You can either stay and be quiet or we’ll have to take you out,” Obama told the disruptive Gutiérrez, giving her one last change to stay and play nice or be escorted out of the event.
The crowd showed their approval of the president by breaking into a spontaneous “Obama” chant.
“Shame on ya. You shouldn’t be doing this,” said Obama.
Gutiérrez told ABC News that it was “just so heartbreaking” that the president heard her, but that it couldn’t be handed it differently.
“I’m just so shocked by the lack of leadership and concern he showed to my community…I have no words to describe the rage I feel,” she said.
