Michelle Obama Makes a Huge Dig at Barack After They Both Addressed Divorce Rumors: ‘Keep That to Yourself’
Michelle and Barack Obama’s marriage has been a hot topic lately. The former President and First Lady have had to contend with almost nonstop divorce rumors in the last few months, rumors the two have now addressed head-on. But even after that, a joke by Michelle Obama on her podcast, IMO, which she hosts with her brother Craig Robinson, might be enough to light the flames of speculation once more.
It came after guest Victoria Monét talked about being embarrassed to share her dreams of becoming a singer. ‘It’s like my husband,’ Michelle Obama responded. ‘”I want to be president of the United States.’” She then joked, ‘It’s like “no, you might want to keep that to yourself, honey.'”
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Considering he did become President of the United States, it’s a little late for that, which is probably the point of the joke.
The former first lady also spoke about her own career ambitions during the episode, discussing her soul-crushing first job and why she never went back. “When I came out of law school, I went into a big corporate firm because I went to Harvard and had a lot of debt, and that’s what you did,” she shared. “I was there for two years, pretty miserable, not because of the place, but because the work was kind of soul-crushing to me, but I realized I hadn’t tried anything else.”
She then pivoted. “And I left and started working in city government and public service, and each job, while it paid less, it had me working with people. So that year turned into two years, and from that job, you know, working for the deputy chief of staff to working and planning and development, and before you know it, I was away from law, and I’ve never gone back.”
The latest episode of the podcast comes right after her husband, Barack Obama, was a guest on an episode of the podcast, and the two discussed their relationship and addressed divorce rumors head-on. Even then, they did it by joking about it. “Welcome to IMO, look at you,” Michelle said, with her brother joking, “Wait, you guys like each other?” It continued. “Oh yeah, really, huh. That’s the rumor mill,” she replied. “It’s my husband, y’all.”
“She took me back!” The Former President also joked. “Now don’t start,” his wife replied. “It was touch and go for a while,” he joked back. Later, Robinson remarked that it was nice to have them both in the same room, to which Michelle Obama replied, “When we aren’t, folks think we’re divorced.”
But Michelle got serious later. “There hasn’t been one moment in our marriage where I’ve thought about quitting my man, and we’ve had some really hard times,” she said. “We’ve had a lot of fun times, a lot of adventures, and I have become a better person because of the man I’m married to.”
“Don’t let me start tearing up now,” was her husband’s response.
She’d also addressed the speculation last month, during NPR’s Wild Card with Rachel Martin, saying. “It’s like, OK, so we don’t Instagram every minute of our lives,” she said. “We are 60. We’re 60, y’all. We just, you just are not gonna know what we’re doing every minute of the day, you know?”
We can, however, imagine there’s a lot of joking and a lot of laughter.
