At the beginning of his press conference, Speaker John Boehner approached the podium while singing a tune and the mic caught all the Grammy-winning action.
The Republican representative from Ohio, who announced that he would be resigning from his position as House Speaker in October early Friday morning, gave a press conference on Capitol Hill later in the day. But before a single audible word left from his mouth, Boehner decided to kick things off with some music:
Needless to say, social media took the brief sound bite and ran (to the hills screaming) with it:
Boehner comes in singing zippa dee do da (sp?)
— Jackie Kucinich (@JFKucinich) September 25, 2015
Boehner sings Zipp-a-Dee-Doo-Dah on his way into his resignation presser
— Tierney Sneed (@Tierney_Megan) September 25, 2015
“My oh my what a wonderful day” Boehner says as he walks up to podium
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) September 25, 2015
Future Salon hed: BOEHNER ENTERS PRESSER SINGING RACIST SONG
— David A. Graham (@GrahamDavidA) September 25, 2015
Boehner said he was going to resign in November, on his birthday. That would have been a song @PolsonKanneth
— Rick Klein (@rickklein) September 25, 2015
Boehner singing “Zip a dee do dah” on his way out is fantastic
— Joe C. (@MrChaudoin) September 25, 2015
BOEHNER COMES ON SINGING ZIP A DEE DO DAH ??? HE HASN'T STARTED CRYIN YET BUT JUST WAIT FOR IT
— Darwin Phillips (@Twobears65) September 25, 2015
Boehner steps to mics while singing Zip-a-dee-do-dah. He did this last year too.
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) September 25, 2015
One Twitter user even called it happening an hour before it actually did:
Boehner should sing. He has a nice baritone.
— .mike.alto. (@altoemike) September 25, 2015
[h/t Silvia Killingsworth]
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