Malia Obama, President Obama’s Daughter, Graduates From High School

Malia Obama graduated from Sidwell Friends School on Friday — as President Barack Obama watched with pride.

Malia Obama Graduates From High School

Sidwell Friends reportedly asked the president whether he would like to speak at his daughter’s graduation, but Obama declined.

The president blamed his emotions for declining the invitation to deliver the commencement address at the elite private school where Malia is among only 127 graduates.

“I’m going to be wearing dark glasses,” Obama told a group of lunch companions during a visit to Detroit earlier this year. “I’m going to cry.”

Obama stood up proudly in attendance at the graduation on Friday — wearing dark sunglasses as Malia walked the stage to receive her diploma.

“He was just a total dad,” the mother of a graduating senior said of the president. “No fanfare. You didn’t know they were there.”

Obama has expressed sadness at his daughter growing up. Malia will turn 18 next month and has been accepted to Harvard. Obama and Michelle announced that she will take a gap year, allowing her to enroll in 2017 — after her father’s term ends.

“I’m not going to talk about the fact that my daughter leaving me is just breaking my heart,” the president admitted last week.

The Obamas plan to stick around Washington for several years after the president leaves office so Malia’s sister, Sasha, who also attends Sidwell, can finish high school there.