President Obama to daughters: If you get a tattoo, I’m getting one too

The President revealed that he and the First Lady are using reverse psychology to prevent daughters Sasha and Malia from getting tattoos. Obama also laughed off his wife's 'single mother' gaffe.

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are counting on reverse psychology to prevent Malia (left) and Sasha (right) from getting inked.

President Obama and the First Lady have come up with a crafty strategy to prevent their daughters from getting tattoos — and it banks on the girls thinking their parents are deeply uncool.
“What we’ve said to the girls is, ‘If you guys ever decide you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo. In the same place,’” Obama said with a smile. “And we'll go on YouTube and
show it off as a family tattoo.”

“And our thinking is that might dissuade them from thinking that somehow that's a good way to rebel,” he added.

Obama was joined by his young family as he entered the U.S. Senate in 2004, before tattoos were a concern.

During the interview that aired Wednesday on NBC’s “Today,” Obama also laughed off a recent gaffe made by his wife — calling herself a “single mother” in an interview.

“As somebody who has stumbled over my lines many times – I tend to cut my wife or anybody some slack when it comes to just slips of the tongue,” Obama said.
But he acknowledged that “there’s no doubt that there have been times where Michelle probably felt like a single mom.”
“When I was running for the U.S. Senate, when I was running for President, there were times where I wouldn’t see her for a week and she was still working and had to look after the girls,” he said. “So she definitely, I think, understands the burdens that women in particular tend to feel if they’re both responsible for child rearing and they’re responsible for working at the same time.”