This year’s pre-Super Bowl presidential interview was intended to be a softball with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie — no more hard-hitting questions from Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly.

But President Obama still managed to blow it by demonstrating his poor knowledge of American history. Worse yet, it involved American presidential history.

“We make beer,” Obama told Guthrie while holding a glass of White House brew in the White House kitchen, pinky finger delicately raised. (“No wonder Putin is kicking our asses,” one tweeter griped.)

“First president since George Washington to make some booze in the White House,” the president bragged.

Oh? Twitter users jumped all over that one. The first people to live in the White House were John and Abigail Adams.

Here’s a tweet with a Vine attached. Turn the sound on at the upper-left corner of the video.

George Washington lived in the White House? https://t.co/l0z7vThKZA

— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) February 1, 2015

The truly amazing thing about his flub was that it wasn’t even in response to a question. The beer-guzzler-in-chief probably had that one all prepared ahead of time.

@GPollowitz @laurakfillault What a jack@ss. And HE is president…. Oy Vey.

— InetFraud (@InetF) February 1, 2015

And then there’s this, with photo attached:

“We brew beer […] First president since George Washington to have booze in the @WhiteHouse.” —@BarackObama pic.twitter.com/2Dyce7IhZg

— S☮HAIL (@sohailstyle) February 1, 2015

And then there were these observations:

@sohailstyle @WhiteHouse @BarackObama Not only did Washington not live in the WH but beer isn’t generally considered booze, liquor is

— Tom Cruz’n (@TinPotDickTator) February 1, 2015

@sohailstyle @WhiteHouse @BarackObama Never happened; must’ve been in one of those other 57 states.

— Jay Dubb (@MidasRex1998) February 1, 2015

But the response that really caught my eye was the one from the Twitter user who noticed something peculiar about the presidential pinkie:

.@sohailstyle @ColMorrisDavis @WhiteHouse @BarackObama Really, Barry? Pinky up? No wonder Putin is kicking our asses.

— Carl (@EtTuCarl) February 1, 2015

@GPollowitz What a dumbass

— Matt Dawson (@SaintRPh) February 1, 2015

Groan. Truth be told, Obama did better at the O’Reilly interview. Of course, it didn’t take long before someone made a humorous video of the flub.

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