Ellen DeGeneres' Oscar selfie was a 'cheap stunt', says Barack Obama

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Last Updated : Mar 21 2014 | 1:35 PM IST

President Barack Obama has confessed that he thinks Ellen DeGeneres' Oscar selfie with stars like Angelina Jolie, Meryl Streep and Jared Leto among others, was a "cheap stunt".

The president on his appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" that he doesn't think much of the snapshot that the talkshow host took and broke his Twitter record.

The 52-year-old politician said that he thought it was "cheap stunt" to get a bunch of celebrities in the background and feeding them pizza.

Obama also talked about Obamacare in his 10-minute interview.

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First Published: Mar 21 2014 | 1:24 PM IST

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