Ellen DeGeneres Tear Up While Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom

“It’s easy to forget now, when we’ve come so far, where now marriage is equal under the law, just how much courage was required for Ellen to come out on the most public of stages almost 20 years ago,” Obama said during the ceremony at the White House.

"What an incredible burden that was to bear, to risk her career like that. People don't do that very often, and then to have the hopes of millions on your shoulders," he added, before cracking an Ellen joke.

“But it’s like Ellen says: ‘We all want a tortilla chip, that can support the weight of guacamole,’ which really makes no sense to me, but I thought it would break the mood because I was getting kind of choked up,” Obama admitted.

They haven't let me in to the White House yet because I forgot my ID. #NotJoking#PresidentialMedalOfFreedom pic.twitter.com/sHocwqChKV

— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) November 22, 2016

But apparently that wasn't too much of an issue, and the whole "medal of honor" thing probably had something to do with it.

.@POTUS Barack Obama just awarded me the #MedalofFreedom. I hope it serves as an ID. I have no idea how I'm getting home. pic.twitter.com/JSMf0sJqyF

— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) November 22, 2016