Obama sits in his chair during a Cabinet meeting in July 2012. This image was tweeted by his official Twitter account in August 2012 in response to &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/31/politics/eastwood-speech/&amp;quot; target=&amp;quot;_blank&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Clint Eastwood&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;empty chair&amp;quot; speech&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; at the Republican National Convention. The tweet simply said, &amp;quot;This seat&amp;#39;s taken.&amp;quot;