Jay Carney's Exit Was Capped By A Mega-Awkward Hug

Jay Carney And Obama Shared An Insanely Awkward Hug

When President Obama bid farewell to White House press secretary Jay Carney on Friday, nobody seemed to see it coming. It was a SHOCKING SHOCKER! Here is a tweet about the surprisingness of it.

But the talk quickly turned to the hug Obama and Carney shared. Because it was rather unbelievably awkward.

There was...elbow-on-upper-arm action, maybe? Did Carney kiss Obama's arm? Does this pair know what hugs are?

Let's see a Vine of it. Replay!

Uh...

People had thoughts!

HuffPost's own Jen Bendery noticed that the hug was really Carney's idea: Obama tried to go in for a handshake and got "Carneyed" (a term we invented for this purpose).

Here's Bendery's eagle-eyed clip of the whole thing:

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