Trash-Talking Barack Obama Out-Golfs Michael Phelps, Actor Says

Michael Phelps may be the greatest swimmer in history. But on the golf course, he’s still human, at least according to actor Anthony Anderson.

Anderson appeared on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” last week, recounting stories of a golf outing featuring himself, Phelps, NBA player Chris Paul and former U.S. President Barack Obama.

Anderson says the former Commander-in-Chief schooled the three celebs, winning hundreds of dollars from each. And according to Anderson, Obama “talked trash all day” to Phelps & co., thereby joining an elite group that includes Chad le Clos and Alain Bernard. But Obama, apparently, sets himself apart from those two by backing up his words, not in the pool, but on the links.

“He took $700 from Phelps,” Anderson said. “He took $600 from Chris Paul. He took $300 from me. I was like, man, is this even right? Can you take money from civilians? He was like, ‘Anthony, I’m a civilian now, so, yes, I can take it.’”

You can watch the full video of Anderson telling his golf tale below, courtesy of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on YouTube.

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Old Retired Guy
7 years ago

Ohhhhhh Nooooo….

Political whitewaters downthread/downstream………Australian crawl upstream as fast as possible

SCAQTony
7 years ago

Oh god, I hope Phelps doesn’t have a gambling issue.

Abs
7 years ago

My favorite people all in one place!!! Sorry GOAT – you r the king in the waters ???

Billabong
7 years ago

Why is Cavic not mentioned? He normally gets a good thrashing in articles of this nature.

Diana McCandless
Reply to  Billabong
7 years ago

I wondered too! Cavic was my favorite “villain”

Isabelle
7 years ago

Who really cares how many rounds any of them played – this sounds like it was a fun outing. Let it be!

ERVINFORTHEWIN
7 years ago

Next ……..

G.I.N.A
7 years ago

Lucy had wise words ‘ You’ve peaked , Its all down hill now ‘ . Presidents or Peanuts – it the same .

Kip Winger
7 years ago

He has spent more time than MP spending the corporate donor money he hauled in. Selling out average americans paid big for his golf game..

About Jared Anderson

Jared Anderson

Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Then, Jared Anderson stopped swimming and started writing about swimming. He's not sick of swimming yet. Swimming might be sick of him, though. Jared was a YMCA and high school swimmer in northern Minnesota, and spent his college years swimming breaststroke and occasionally pretending …

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