Barack Obama performs on live television

Cape Town – Barack Obama made a surprise appearance on television this past Tuesday night when he performed on the “Slow-Jam the News” segment of the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show, reported the

The United States president received a standing ovation when the host announced his presence on the show.

When he entered the stage he said: “I’m President Barack Obama, and I, too, want to slow-jam the news.”

The president used the karaoke- like performance to speak out against rising student fees at University level.

“Now is not the time to make school more expensive for our young people.”

“There’s some in Congress who disagree. They say keeping the interest rate low isn’t a way to help our students.
 
“They say we should be doing everything we can to pay down the national debt – well, as long as it doesn’t include taxing billionaires,” he said.

‘We were still paying’

The president, who is running for a second-term, later told the host that he and his wife also struggled paying their student loans after completing their undergraduate degrees.

“For the first 10 years of our marriage, we were still paying stuff off, even when we were supposed to be saving for Malia and Sasha.

“We didn’t pay off all of our student loans until about eight years ago.”

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