"Uh, let me be clear… Falcon Punch."

This could possibly have been said by former President Barack Obama according to a delightful anecdote that hit social media yesterday.

As related by Super Smash Brothers veteran Tafokints, who learned it during a recent Max Pain Monday poker stream, Arizona Smash player Cody Daniels once got to visit the White House and play Obama in Smash 64 as a Make-A-Wish recipient.

There, Daniels met Obama and discovered the former President is purportedly a Captain Falcon main. According to Daniels, Obama was surprisingly decent at the game, certainly better than you'd expect the leader of the free world to be.

Obama was 37 when Smash 64 was released for the Nintendo 64 in 1999. At the time, he was an Illinois State Senator. One wonders when he got the time to practice the some would say much more honorable pursuit of landing Fair into F-smash.

The news was very amusing to the Smash community, who now had a concrete image of Obama playing their game and used it to imagine the former President in the competitive scene.

A wholesome bookend to the story is that while Daniels was relaying his tales of (probably) destroying Barack Obama in Smash, despite the President's decent skills, he was also winning money in poker. At the Max Pain Monday stream, he walked out with $11,000, which he donated to Make-A-Wish.