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David Beck­ham, global poster-boy for met­ro­sex­u­al­ity, sport­ing an Edwar­dian beard, had a hot date with Obama at the White House today.

Though he had to bring his team-mates along as LA Galaxy were being hon­oured with a recep­tion after win­ning the Major League Soc­cer Cup, America’s equiv­a­lent of the Premiership.

After list­ing the soc­cer star’s achieve­ments, intro­duc­ing him josh­ingly as a “young up-and-comer,” and adding that, “half your team­mates could be your kids”, Obama quipped (almost fluff­ing the line): “It’s a rare man that can be that tough on the field and have his own line of underwear.”

Or as rare as a GQ Com­man­der in Chief?

Con­trary to recent reports, Obama is not the first gay Pres­i­dent. He’s the first met­ro­sex­ual Pres­i­dent. Or as I wrote in Met­ro­sexy:

“A well-dressed mixed-race, poly­glot male who makes the Free World wait on his gym visit every morn­ing. A man whose looks are reg­u­larly praised – par­tic­u­larly by male jour­nal­ists. A man who won the Demo­c­ra­tic nom­i­na­tion in part because he was much pret­tier than his more expe­ri­enced female oppo­nent. His wife Michelle is very attrac­tive too, of course – but in some ways Obama is the first US Pres­i­dent to be his own First Lady.”

Which makes the Beck­ham and Obama’s hot date quite a his­toric occasion.

I can’t quite decide though whether Obama’s own ram­pant met­ro­sex­u­al­ity makes his bitchy remark to Beck­ham about his under­wear funny or a bit… pants.