“Malia is more like me temperamentally. We call ourselves the long faces, because her face is more shaped like mine,” Obama said of his 22-year-old daughter during a Thursday appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
“The round faces are Michelle and Sasha,” Obama, 59, said with a smile, referring to the former first lady and their 19-year-old daughter.
“The round faces are a fiercer tribe,” Obama added to laughs. “We’re like the vegetarians, the gatherers, and they’re the hunters. We try to keep the peace with them.”
Asked by host Jimmy Kimmel if there was any truth to what Michelle Obama had once told him, that the 44th president was “scared” of his younger daughter, he replied: “Yes. And the reason is because Sasha is a mini-Michelle. And I am afraid of Michelle. And Sasha, having seen that, basically has the same look and the same attitude.”
The stop on Kimmel’s late-night ABC show was part of a publicity blitz by Obama to promote his new memoir, “A Promised Land.”