Politics | President Obama Trick-or-Treat ... Mr President Obamas open White House doors to 2000+ area schoolkids By Polly Davis Doig Posted Nov 1, 2009 5:00 AM CST Copied Performers in their Halloween costumes, entertain trick-or-treaters on the north lawn of the White House during the Halloween celebrations, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) The leader of the free world may have been masquerading as a frumpy suburban dad and handing out dried fruit, but it was still a pretty cool treat for a couple thousand DC-area kids who went trick-or-treating at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave last night. With the first lady dressed as a leopard, President and Michelle Obama handed out White House M&Ms, White House-shaped sugar cookies, and the aforementioned dessicated fruit. A brass band in skeleton costumes pumped out gypsy music as makeup artists from a Chicago theater company painted faces and a Rhode Island farmer showed off his 1300-pound pumpkin, reports the Washington Post. Some 2,000 schoolkids chosen at random happily passed through the White House gates, but, professed one 9-year-old: "I'm not a fan of dried fruit." Read These Next Who added bill's proposed tax on clean energy? No one knows. Bryan Kohberger has admitted his guilt. Keith Urban interview ends after Nicole Kidman question. Soccer star Diogo Jota is killed in a car crash. Report an error