Here's Michelle Obama's touching birthday tribute to the president

Michelle and Barak Obama.
(Image credit: Getty Images)

In case seven-and-a-half years of speeches, state dinners, and sappy photos hasn't made it clear: Barack and Michelle Obama really like each other. So of course, the first lady was not going to let her husband's 55th birthday Thursday go un-celebrated:

55 years young and that smile still gets me every single day. Happy birthday, Barack. I love you. -moA photo posted by First Lady Michelle Obama (@michelleobama) on Aug 4, 2016 at 7:34am PDT

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Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.