Barack Obama Finally Confesses to ‘Deficit’ in Michelle Marriage After Denying Divorce Rumors: ‘I Had to Work My Way Out’
The status of Michelle and Barack Obama’s marriage is very much something that has gotten a lot of attention since the two left the White House. In many ways, it feels like they transitioned to traditional celebrities, and with that comes the scrutiny about their personal lives. It’s just probably not the kind of scrutiny they expected. And their joking comments about their relationship never help the matter.
Case in point, Barack Obama’s latest comments about how he and Michelle are doing. During the final episode of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, Obama offered advice to the host after ending his 16-year run, and threw in a little commentary on his relationship while at it.
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“Just be a little brain-dead for a while. I read a bunch of books that had been stacked up,” the former President said, referring to what he did after leaving office. “I had a big deficit with my wife I had to kind of work my way out of, right? So, we went on a lot of trips and hung out and had nice dinners and slept in.”
He also said: “I think what this is an opportunity for, for you—it was an opportunity for me—was figuring out, all right, ‘What’s my next highest and best use? What’s a new purpose that scratches that itch.’ And it may not come to you right away.”
The former President has made similar comments before. He spoke about his marriage while at a Jefferson Educational Society event in Erie, Pennsylvania, recently, joking, “I have spent over eight years now trying to dig myself out of a hole with Michelle. And that’s been challenging, but I feel like I’m making progress. I’m almost breaking even at the moment.”
It was also addressed on the podcast Michelle Obama co-hosts with her brother, titled IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, with the former first lady saying, “When we aren’t [in the same room] folks think we’re divorced.” And Michelle Obama also explained their lack of a social media presence during NPR’s Wild Card with Rachel Martin.
“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?”
Rumors about the two really picked up after Michelle Obama skipped Donald Trump’s inauguration. The former first lady addressed the matter on her podcast, however, saying, “My decision to skip the inauguration, what people don’t realize, or my decision to make choices at the beginning of this year that suited me, were met with such ridicule and criticism,” she explained. “People couldn’t believe that I was saying no for any other reason, that they had to assume that my marriage was falling apart, you know.”
So, jokes aside, Barack and Michelle Obama’s marriage is doing well. In fact, it might just be doing better than ever.
