Staffers of US president, Barack Obama, pulled off a seasonal prank when they re-positioned some artificial snowman decorations to come into view of the windows of the Oval Office in the White House.
Pete Souza, the official photographer of the White House, said in an Instagram post that he and some of his fellow staffers had been discussing the possibility of pranking the president by slowly moving the four snowmen on display in the Rose Garden toward the Oval Office “to see if anyone noticed.”
“Then we realised the snowmen were too heavy to easily lift. But finally this morning before the President came to the office, some helpful staff — I won’t say who — moved all the snowmen so each one was peeking through a different window into the Oval,” Souza wrote.
Souza shared a photo of Obama signing end-of-year bills Friday while a snowman ominously looks in from the window behind him.
A second photo shows Obama jokingly reacting to a window-peeping snowman.
