Ka taƙaita labarin:  Gayyatar zuwa gidan cin abinci na White House ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin tikitin da aka fi nema a Washington. Akwai kyakkyawan yanayi, baƙi masu daraja a cikin tuxedos da riguna masu zane da kuma abinci mai abinci huɗu da aka yi amfani da shi daga shahararren abinci na Amurka. Amma kada ka yi zaton za ka yi nasara. Shugaba Barack Obama ya gudanar da mafi ƙarancin adadin abincin dare tun lokacin da Harry S. Truman, wanda ya bar ofishin shekaru 62 da suka gabata. A cikin shekaru shida na farko, Obama ya gudanar da bukukuwan cin abinci guda bakwai ne kawai kuma zai gudanar da akalla biyu a wannan shekara: ga shugabannin Japan, a ranar 28 ga Afrilu, da China, daga baya a wannan shekarar. Gungura ƙasa don bidiyo. Mai ba da nishaɗi: Shugaba Barack Obama (a tsakiya) ya ba da hadaya a kan mataki ga Shugaban Faransa Francois Hollande a wurin cin abincin dare a kudancin Lawn na Fadar White House a Washington. Obama ya gudanar da mafi ƙarancin adadin abincin dare na jihar tun lokacin da Harry S. Truman, wanda ya bar ofishin shekaru 62 da suka gabata. Obama ya karbi bakuncin bakwai ne kawai. Daya daga cikin masu sa'a: Uwargidan Shugaban kasa Michelle Obama da Shugaba Barack Obama sun yi maraba da Shugaban Faransa Francois Hollande don cin abincin dare a Arewacin Portico na Fadar White House a watan Fabrairun 2014. Truman, wanda ya zama shugaban kasa a 1945, ya gudanar da bukukuwan cin abinci shida a kusan shekaru takwas a ofishin. An rufe shi da kayan ado, wani abincin dare na White House shine mafi girman girmamawa na diflomasiyya da Amurka ta tanada don abokan tarayya da sauran ƙasashe. Har ila yau, yana daya daga cikin al'amuran da suka fi dacewa da gwamnati. Ma'aikatar Harkokin Wajen ta biya duk lissafin, wanda ya kai kimanin dala 500,000 ga kowane abincin dare bakwai na Obama, in ji mai magana da yawun Fadar White House Patrick Ventrell. Ventrell da wasu sun ce kudin ya kasance abin damuwa lokacin da Obama ya hau mulki a watan Janairun 2009 a cikin mummunar koma bayan tattalin arziki tun daga shekarun 1930. Jami'ai sun damu da matsalar tattalin arziki da ke rufe kasar kuma suna neman wasu hanyoyin da shugaban zai iya kulla dangantaka da shugabannin kasashen waje ba tare da kashe daruruwan dubban dala na jama'a ba a kan abincin dare mai ban sha'awa. Obama ya gudanar da abincin dare na farko a karshen shekararsa ta farko a ofishin, yana girmama Firayim Ministan Indiya na wancan lokacin...
Rikodin Obama shi ne mafi ƙanƙanta tun lokacin da Truman ya bar ofishin a 1953 bayan ya karbi bakuncin shida. Ma'aikatar Harkokin Wajen ta biya kudin kowane taron, wanda ya kai kimanin dala 500,000. Obama ya damu da kashe kudi a lokacin da tattalin arzikin kasar ke cikin koma-baya tun 1930s.