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It turns out that President Obama really does read the tweets, or at least some of the meaner ones.

The president on Thursday took part in a regular segment on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in which celebrities read mean Twitter posts that people have written about them. He also touched on more serious topics in his interview with Mr. Kimmel.

One tweet he read said: “How do you make Obama’s eyes light up? Shine a flashlight in his ears.” Another post included “HaHa!” and “LOL,” and Mr. Obama tried to channel his inner teenager, saying, “The LOL is redundant when you had the HaHa.”

He also managed to get in a dig at Congress after participating in the “mean tweets” feature. “Those weren’t that mean,” he said. “You should see what the Senate says about me.”