Bono, the front man to the band U2 and the eco warrior who flies a private jet everywhere, loves a chance to drop Barack Obama’s name. Who wouldn’t?
This time Bono is recalling the time he was having a few beers with the ex president while he was still in the White House.
Bono recounted how he found himself asleep in the White House’s Lincoln Bedroom in an interview with Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2 to promote his new memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.
He said “The 44th president of the United States – he mixes cocktails. He doesn’t have too many, he’s very measured,’ said Bono, adding that, ‘he does make strong cocktails, though, just saying.”
At that point of the evening Obama asked where Bono had gotten to and his wife said he’s “just gone off for a sleep”.
Bono recalled, “She said, “He has to, he just has to go for these sleeps, he’ll be back in 10 minutes. I’ve been with him for 30 years, don’t you worry a thing about him, Mr. President. I’ll go find him.”.
But Obama insisted on coming with her and remembered he had been speaking with Bono about Lincoln’s historic Gettysburg Address.
That’s when he knew to look in the Lincoln Bedroom, Bono recalled on the radio show.
‘He just woke me up and laughed. President laughed his head off,’ Bono said.
But apparently, Obama doesn’t believe that Bono has an allergy.
‘He does tell people that he drinks me under the table, he doesn’t believe the allergy thing.’
Ok. That’s a pretty baller story to have in your arsenal.
