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President Barack Obama had at least two secret meetings with Daily Show host Jon Stewart, a new Politico report confirms.

White House logs reveal Stewart played consigliere to the sitting POTUS, slipping “unnoticed into the White House in the midst of the October 2011 budget fight, summoned to an Oval Office coffee with President Barack Obama that he jokingly told his escort felt like being called into the principal’s office.”

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Obama called upon Stewart again in February 2014, “hours before the president would go before television cameras to warn Russia that ‘there will be costs’ if it made any further military intervention in Ukraine.”

Though it doesn’t specify exactly what two of the most important American liberal figures discussed, the article does quote many Washington bigwigs dishing on the comedian’s considerable political sway.

The 52-year-old Stewart has said he hopes to take some time with his family after retiring from the Daily Show next Thursday, but, considering his influence, a future in politics seems a natural step. Or the plot for a horrible movie, at least.