The president, 78, began discussing the idea earlier this year, though he admitted at the National Prayer Breakfast in February that people were telling him he wouldn’t be allowed to run again.
“They told me I could [attend] via Skype. I said, ‘I’ve been there every year. I’m not doing it via Skype. Instead, I’m going to be there. It’s not that far,'” he told the attendees. “You know, it’s like about two minutes down the road. In fact, it was easier to do this than put up a Skype deal — destroy the White House, putting up all that stuff.”
“But no, I want to be here with you. And I have been here with you,” the father-of-five continued. “And I do that despite the fact that they say I can’t run again … Then somebody said, ‘I don’t think you can.'”