Team USA visited the White House on Thursday, which meant President Barack Obama talked a good deal about two Olympians who grew up swimming not far from Washington.

First up: Bethesda's Katie Ledecky, in attendance in the East Room.

“I was nervous that she was going to ask me to, like, hold all her medals while I was speaking or something,” Obama said of the five-time gold medalist.

Minutes later, the focus was on Michael Phelps (who was presumably still in Chaska, Minn., for the Ryder Cup).

“Michael Phelps became the greatest Olympian of all time, broke a 2,000-year record for the most individual Olympic titles,” Obama said. “If you're breaking, like, a 2,000-year record, that's pretty impressive, you know what I mean?”

(Actually, it was a 2,168-year-old record, but who's counting?)

Obama went on rattling off the country's standout Olympians, but he wasn't done with Phelps.

“So I could talk about this forever, but if I keep on going longer, I'm gonna get, like, ‘Phelps face' from you guys,” he said. “You're gonna be hungry. You want to get out of here.”

— Jonas Shaffer