Barack and Michelle Obama are laughing off the rumors about their relationship being on the rocks.
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Former President Barack Obama joined his spouse, Michelle Obama, and her brother, Craig Robinson, for the most recent episode of their IMO podcast, the place the pair joked in regards to the ongoing rumors surrounding their marriage.
The siblings opened the present by teasing the “very, very, very particular” visitor set to affix them that day, teasing the truth that people have been asking for this visitor because the day the podcast was launched.
“That is the episode that everybody’s been ready for with bated breath,” Craig revealed, “as a result of we’ve my brother-in-law, your husband, the previous president of the USA.”
Michelle added, “He made time in his busy schedule to return on. We’re honored.”
And the second President Obama joined the dialog, the teasing started, with Robinson joking, “Wait, you guys like one another?”
“That’s the rumor mill,” Michelle replied whereas Barack took his seat, quipping again, “She took me again! It was contact and go for some time.”
When her brother added that it was good to have each Obamas in the identical room, the previous First Woman mentioned, “I do know, as a result of after we aren’t, people assume we’re divorced.”
Rumors surrounding the standing of Barack and Michelle’s relationship have been swirling for some time now, which steams from Michelle’s choices to not attend sure public occasions after leaving the White Home. Extra particularly, her determination to skip President Donald Trump’s January inauguration.
Again in Could, throughout an interview on The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett podcast, Obama talked in regards to the hypothesis head-on, saying she’s lastly beginning to really feel she has “permission to do what I need to do.”
“The great thing about my husband and our partnership is that neither one in every of us was actually ever gonna stop at it, ’trigger that’s not who we’re,” she mentioned on the time. “And I do know that about him. He is aware of that about me.”
On her personal IMO podcast in April, Michelle talked additional about her determination to skip the inauguration.
“Folks couldn’t consider that I used to be saying no for every other cause, they needed to assume that my marriage was falling aside,” she admitted. “It took the whole lot in my energy to not do the factor that was perceived as proper, however do the issues that was proper for me, that was a tough factor for me to do.”
Take a look at the total episode of IMO with Barack Obama down beneath:
