Tracee Ellis Ross told Barack Obama he ‘failed as a friend’ in pointed encounter

Tracee Ellis Ross once called out Former President Barack Obama for being a bad friend because he didn’t stop her from making a dating mistake.

“I broke up with someone, and I remember running into the former president and he was like, ‘I could have told you that,’” Ross shared during her Thursday appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

“And I was like, ‘Well, you failed as a friend!’” she joked.

Ross added with a laugh, “Like, it was your job to say that before, you know what I mean? Like, nip it in the bud.”

Elsewhere in the episode, the “Girlfriends” star also shared that she sometimes relies on her friends to set her up with dating partners. But, she hasn’t yet gone Barack and his wife, Michelle Obama, for a potential pairing.

“I’ve never asked Michelle to set me up which I think perhaps is dumb and I need to get on that,” she admitted.

She may not have called in her big dating favor yet, but the “Black-ish” star admitted she does ask for dating advice from the Obamas.

In April, the 52-year-old actress appeared on Michelle’s “IMO” podcast — which she co-hosts with her brother, Craig Robinson — where she revealed that she prefers dating younger men.

“A lot of men my age are steeped in a toxic masculinity and have been raised in a culture where there is a particular way that a relationship looks,” she said.

“Anything that starts to smell of that for me — I did enough of it where I was controlled and felt like I was a possession or a prize — I just have no interest in it. And I will not do it again.”

Instead, Ross shared that she’s started to gravitate toward the “openness” she finds with dating younger men.

“I have long been past the age where I feel like it’s my job to teach somebody or grow them up,” she said. “That, I’m not interested in.”