Tony Hawk, professional skateboarder Tony Hawk skateboards in the hall at the White House as part of a Father’s Day celebration, Friday, June 19, 2009 in Washington.
(AP Photo/Tony Hawk)
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Pro skateboarder takes a glide through White House
Washington
Hey, kids, don’t try this at home. Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk on Friday took a brief ride at the White House as part of a Father’s Day celebration.
Hawk, 41, skated in the grand foyer and the nearby Old Executive Office Building, with the permission of White House officials.
The skateboarding icon, also known for his popular brand of skateboarding video games, posted photos to his Web site and Twitter page.
One photo shows Hawk on his skateboard with his hands in the air in what appears to be a hallway.
“…and here is my exit,” he wrote in a message on Twitter, which linked to a picture of him skating. “Supposed to return at noon for the First Fathers event if they let me back in.”
Hawk posted other insights from his Washington visit on his Twitter page, telling fans about eating Frosted Flakes cereal inside the gates of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. In another tweet, he says “back at White House, Tweeting live from the Diplomatic Room. Unbelievable.”
Hawk joined other dads, athletes and celebrities at a Father’s Day forum hosted by President Barack Obama. Celebrity chef Bobby Flay helped man the barbecue grills for a White House picnic for the attendees, which included NBA players Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat and Etan Thomas of the Washington Wizards.
“The Prez addressing all of us fathers before we split up to visit DC charities,” Hawk tweeted. “D Wade & Etan T make me feel short.”
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Wild Thing’s comment…….
Can’t he respect ANYTHING about our country???? I guess not.
I’m speechless. Why, why, why is it okay for Obama to treat the White House – OUR HOUSE – as a skate park in an attempt to … I don’t know… be the Cool President, the Nontraditional President…….For me, it just says “Thug.”
This is not about small children playing or doing fun things at all. Hawk is 41 and NONE of this had to happen.
I guess there is nothing happening in the world…..like North Korea, a major recession, Iran, two automakers bankrupt, collapse of the dollar, corruption, etc.. Does Mr. Obama have no fiddle?
When you’re a pimp, everything’s for sale.
When you come from crap (we know this because of the fly incident)you treat everything like crap.
“When you’re a pimp, everything’s for sale.” I love this. We must teach Kwame Hussein “X” and Aunt Esther that “pimpin’ ain’t easy” when our American Way is what they want to sell out. Too many have paid too dearly for us to allow these bozos to sell out our principles like some two-bit ho. Citizens are losing faith in Obamugabe’s programs yet they still claim to love the guy-what’s up with that ? When will this “ROCKSTAR” crap wear off ??
It’s 5:30 I’ve been up for an hour and already I want to puke. I’m sick of that Kenyan smugly rubbing our noses in crap. Where are the objections of Congress at the desecration of the White House?
Oh no. Skateboards in the white house. Congress and the media would have been all over Bush for allowing mud wrestling or jello fights in the White House. But skateboarding? What will be next? Cock fighting? Dog fighting? VooDoo rituals?
This is just disgusting. Worse than the disrespect slick gave the office. And THAT was a new low! Tacky and very inappropriate.
Obama has less dignity than most pimps. Yes, he wants to be hip to the MTV crowd. If GWB had allowed something like this the MSM would have been all over him.
The White House is 195 years old this August 14, the first one was burnt down by the British in 1814. Pesidents have a long history of doing wierd stuff when there, TR had Ponies at the White House for his kids, and rumor has it the kids would sneak the ponies into the White House, a good kids story. I suppose if the Kids had done it, it would be more cute but a professional Skate Boarder is obscene.
This is the Soutpiel’s way of shitting on the American people.
More disturbing is why a 41 year old man would still be riding around on a skateboard. Kind of distracts for the appeal of his fame–wonder if he still lives with his Mom.
I think we should look at it this way, just for sanity’s sake. The White House will be given a complete renovation after this crew leaves. They are so disrespectful in every day life, you know they treat government property poorly.
PS…Jack gave me a tip to check my registry for mess ups, and I got a program that cleaned it up and I’m able to stay on the computer indefinitely again…lol…instead of ten minutes and a lock up. So if you see this Jack, thanks for putting that in my head. I have a huge mostly empty hard drive and 1 g ram, but the program found 360 registry errors…yowza.
Eden. My pleasure Ma’am, glad to have helped in any way, thank you.
I get around 60 register errors a week on mine but I hack a lot of files too.
I had installed AVG anti-virus on my newly upgraded hard drive too, it was working great until AVG upgraded their execute program, lordy it got slow. After dealing with it all winter I downloaded Avira to a folder, booted up in safe mode and removed AVG, then rebooted and installed Avira, it runs like a hot sports car now. I don’t let anyone upgrade my computer online but Avira’s daily update, not even Bill Gate’s Microsoft, I always download and install it myself. Also I reinstalled my custom hosts file yesterday, so far it’s doing it’s job too. There’s no place like home, 127.0.0.1. I’m so happy for you Eden.
CB, good one, and that says a lot!!!
Willy, heh heh thank you.
“When will this “ROCKSTAR” crap wear off?”
I sure wish it would hurry, I am soooo
sick of this jerk.
Jack, I know how you feel. Obama keeps
me in a sick to my stomach state.
Lynn….ROTFLMAO good one.
“VooDoo rituals?”
Jan, I agree, it seems democrats
just can’t value the history even
of these places and what they mean.
I even heard Obama refer to it as
his house.I wish I could find the
video of that. It was the way he
said it like we were so far beneath
him as we the people kind of statement.
Tom, I agree!!!
When I was a kid I went on a tour of
the White House, I am so glad I got to
do that, each room has a history.
Mark,exactly that is why it is so bad. I
could see kids trying this and then being
told hey come settle down or something,
but an adult and a professional skateboarder
for what? Totally disrespectful.
LOL Thank you so much Mark for sharing about
TR and the ponies.
Eden, thank you so much, that does help.
It is hard to see people disrespect
something that has such meaning to it.
Yipee I am so glad about your computer.
Yes thank you Jack.