Monday night on “Full Frontal,” Samantha Bee hosted a Halloween-themed interview with President Obama. Asked to tell a scary story about what happens if people don’t vote, Obama had his answer ready:  “Donald Trump could be president.”  “OK, that was very scary,” Bee answered.  The theme of the interview was to get young people to vote, and to vote for Hillary Clinton, something Obama has been promoting in recent weeks on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” He’ll visit “Real Time With Bill Maher” on Friday.  At a few points in the five-minute segment, Bee got Obama to laugh out loud. Lapsing into the voice of a Millennial, with lots of “likes” and some fierce vocal fry, Bee said, “OK, because it’s like I don’t even know if there is, like, any point in voting. Like, they’re both so totally flawed.”  In his answer, Obama included a little snark: “I would hope that you’d be willing to take the same amount of time that you spend just looking at cat videos on your phone to make sure that the democracy’s working.”  “Sorry,” Bee said, still a Millennial. “I was just Snapchatting myself as a bottle-nosed dolphin.”  Bee got in one good question, amid the jokes and predictable get-out-the-vote material. She asked Obama what he thought would be the female equivalent of “You weren’t born in this country” if Clinton wins.  “I think the equivalent will be, ‘She’s tired, she’s moody, she’s being emotional,’” Obama said, noting that people tend to be more suspicious of an ambitious woman than an ambitious man. “That theme, I think, will continue throughout her presidency and it’s contributed to this notion that somehow she is hiding something.”  Throughout the presidential race, Bee has been a consistent voice of anger and sarcasm, and as the only woman in the late-night realm, she has been more focused on the role played by gender inequality. After Obama described the way suspicion would haunt a Clinton presidency, Bee caustically quoted Trump: “What a nasty woman,” she said.  Bee finished by asking Obama if, once he’s out of office, he’ll be tempted to whisper in Trump’s ear, “You were right, I wasn’t born here — just to, like, mess with him?”  Obama: “I think it’s fair to say I will be organizing my post-presidency to where I’m not close enough to him to whisper in his ear.”
President Obama took a spooky take on the Halloween episode of “Full Frontal” to make his push for Hillary Clinton.