Obama’s most watched video on YouTube

Obama shaking hands with ordinary Washington D.C kids

The White House’s most-watched YouTube video of 2014 wasn’t the State of the Union address, Barack Obama’s angry denunciation of the ISIS terror army or his ground-shattering declaration of new rights for illegal immigrants.

Those moments pulled in about one-tenth as many viewers as a 3-minute clip showing the president just walking around and meeting tourists in Washington, D.C.

That casual ordinary-guy stunt was viewed more than 5 million times since he took the unannounced stroll on May 21 with White House counsellor John Podesta in tow.

‘Can’t be regular. Can’t be routine,’ Obama is heard telling him, jacket flung over his shoulder on a warm spring day. ‘It’s good to be out. The bear is loose!’

Obama, in white shirt takes a walk round Washington

Tourists near the White House were shocked.

One told the Associated Press that she thought he was a presidential impersonator.

Obama took a handful of unexpected outings in the span of a few weeks, including a Starbucks run and a lunch ad the Shake Shack burger joint.

*Originally published by Mail Online