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Barack Obama reveals he was mocked by daughter on Snapchat

[U.S. President Barack Obama, left, tells talk show host Jimmy Kimmel about his introduction to Snapchat courtesy of his 15-year-old daughter. Randy Holmes/ABC via Getty Images]

He might be the commander-in-chief of the United States of America, but President Barack Obama is not immune from the scorn of a teenager.

On Monday, the soon-to-be outgoing president shared a story with American talk show host Jimmy Kimmel about how he discovered he had been exposed on the popular social media application known as Snapchat by his youngest daughter.

Sasha, 15, was the first one to show her father how the app worked, and she did so by taking him through the different filters users can apply to their posts. Obama concurred with his wife, Michelle, that Snapchat was an interesting tool for younger generations.

“And I started talking to Michelle about the implications of social media and what all this means … [And I] come to find out [Sasha] was recording us the whole time, and then sent [the recording] to her friends afterwards: ‘This is my dad lecturing us on the meaning of social media,’” he said.

To add salt to the wound, Sasha took a snap of herself looking checked out as he spoke.

The president made a point of noting that both his wife, who also uses Snapchat, and 18-year-old daughter, Malia, “loved” the ridiculing post.

It’s doubtful that Sasha’s patronizing snap will ever surface — it hasn’t been made public and messages on Snapchat are automatically deleted after a short period of time.

But if the post ever does come to light, it would mark a rare Snapchat appearance for the 55-year-old leader.