On Thursday, President Obama visited his old stomping grounds, the University of Chicago Law School, where he taught constitutional law for more than a decade. While there, he applauded his diverse picks of judicial appointments as president but in the same breath, uttered a strange defense of how he never overtly looked for diversity:

[A]t no point did I say: "Oh, you know what? I need a black lesbian from Skokie in that slot. Can you find me one?" I mean, that’s just not how I’ve approached it.

But moments before he listed what he considered the most diverse cast of players in judicial history, Obama said:

I have transformed the federal courts from a diversity standpoint with a record that’s been unmatched. We've got more African-Americans on the circuit courts than we've ever had before, I've appointed more African-American women to the federal courts than any other president before. I've appointed more Latinos than any other president before, I've appointed more Native Americans, more Asian Americans, more LGBT judges than ever before.

So, really, he is speaking out of both sides of his mouth. Maybe he'll get it straight one day, because it sure sounded like he specifically went for "a black lesbian from Skokie."

When it comes to his latest appointee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, the president lost a bit of excitement on the diversity scale:

Yeah, he's a white guy, but he's a really outstanding jurist.

Watch below via Politico: