He's tossed aside the tea- towel and thrown down a wero - Maori Party leader Te Ururoa Flavell has called on the White House to enter the Running Man Challenge.
The politician is the latest person to join in the running man craze sweeping across the world, including a number of emergency services such as the New Zealand Police and Fire Service.
Mr Flavell posted the video to YouTube on Friday. It begins with a heart-warming family scene, where the kids are on the couch and dad is in the kitchen, and spirals into a mash-up of Maori haka and retro dance moves.
A traditional Maori pukuna - tongue out and eyes wide - is twice incorporated into the routine, as well as a short war cry.
In a message accompanying the video, Mr Flavell challenges his co-leader, Marama Fox, all Maori MPs and United States President Barack Obama to also complete the running man challenge.
Mr Flavell said he and his staff had been watching the progress of the craze across Facebook and decided they should give it a go.
"Dancing is in my blood," he said. "No, I'm joking. I haven't been honing my moves. It was a spontaneous thing, I was about to take my grandchild back to his father and my staff turned up and said we had to do it."
Mr Flavell said he hoped Barack Obama would respond.
"It's a bit of a competition. If you bust your moves you've got to hope that people think they can do better," he said. "But I haven't heard from my co-leader Marama so clearly she can't hack it."
The craze began when New Zealand police first released a video of their self-described "twinkle-toed staff" on Tuesday, and challenged police counterparts around the world to take part.
They said the video had reached an astonishing 24 million people by Friday, and had been viewed 7.9 million times.
The NYPD took up the challenge with a bunch of local kids, while the London Metropolitan Police video stars an officer in a riot helmet whose smooth moves lead to him being arrested by possibly envious colleagues.
Meanwhile, the Scottish Fire Service has accepted the challenge laid down by their Kiwi counterparts. The epic video features an axe-wielding dancer and a Flashdance-inspired finale.
Across the ditch, Tasmanian police have released their own attempt at the Running Man challenge, while Victoria police have hinted theirs is to follow. Ambulance services, keen not to be left out, have also got on board.
Answering a call to an "outbreak of running man", paramedics from the Wellington Free Ambulance are shown wheeling a patient out the back of an ambulance before all joining in the dance.
The video, posted on the service's Facebook page, asks people to "donate today and help keep us running".
They extended the challenge to their colleagues in the St John Ambulance Service, Life Flight, and the London Ambulance Service, as well as Australian ambulance trusts in Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.
Fire services and schools have posted their own challenges over the week, but Mr Flavell is the first to extend the invitation to the White House.
Barack, you're up.
