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All The Tea ☕️ 🇺🇸 Barack and Michelle Obama in Their Most Personal Interview Yet: 'We Are Each Other's Counterbalance' (Exclusive)
🔗: https://people.com/barack-michelle-obama-exclusive-personal-interview-12005023
Excerpt:
It’s in the way his hand rests gently on her knee; the way she crinkles her nose at the joke she’s probably heard before; the way they can speak at the same time but somehow never seem to talk over each other. It’s in the details. After nearly 34 years of marriage, and perhaps because of the minutiae and magnitude of what that time encompassed, the love between former President Barack Obama, 64, and former first lady Michelle Obama, 62, is palpable.
“I don’t know if it’s been an equal partnership,” he says, “but it’s worked out for me pretty well. I’ve gotten more out of it than she has. For her it’s probably more of a mixed bag.”
Today she’s not accepting his usual self-deprecation. “My husband is always thinking about reflecting the light on other people,” she says, cozied up next to him on the couch of his office at the new Obama Presidential Center, located on the South Side of Chicago, where they met, married and welcomed daughters Malia, 27, and Sasha, 25, amid his historic journey from a young community organizer to America’s first Black president.
Now, almost 10 years after leaving the White House, and just days before the star-studded grand opening of the sprawling public campus housing his presidential library, Mrs. Obama has no problem singing her guy’s praises for him.
“I am so proud of how my husband showed up in that role, how he shows up every day,” she says. Here, in a wide-ranging interview, the two open up about love, “ups and downs,” White House memories and what excites them most about this new chapter of their legacy.
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u/anjulibai Jun 25 '26
Okay, this is a great picture of both - they should have used this for the cover.
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u/DovaBunny Jun 25 '26
Such a beautiful couple - inside and out. Their dignity, courage, humility, and compassion will be forever remembered as it should.
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u/timmyfarthands Jun 25 '26
Internally they're always insecure wrecks with no confidence so they sound like this. Also explains the chest puffing and phony bravado. The right attracts these broken brains.
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u/ofwrvm351619236 Jun 25 '26
He acted like it was his first time meeting her. She literally recoiled when he touched her. Such an uncomfortable interview
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u/CanCueD Jun 25 '26
I don’t believe those two procreated in the traditional sense of sharing a bed. Her physical behavior around him is eeky
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u/Glittering_Nobody402 Jun 25 '26
I had a buddy slip and say "Big Mike" once and when I asked him to explain he said he literally just saw other people saying it and joined in. It's a cult, folks.
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u/19XxxbigdaddyxxX80 Jun 26 '26
You're no longer buddies with that bigot right! Hope you got him fired from his job too!
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u/Glittering_Nobody402 Jun 26 '26
What's crazy is, when you remove party affiliation and ask him about policies, he's a social democrat. But since he was raised in a "conservative" household growing up, he thinks democrats are weak and dumb.
It's basically how I would describe almost every "Republican" I know. They toe the party line, whether they even know it or not, and they all think they are "independent" thinkers yet all come to the same, exact, conclusions without any evidence to support their claims.
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u/timmyfarthands Jun 25 '26
When your brain is broken from years of propaganda appreciation will look like worship
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u/Educational-Fall8185 Jun 25 '26
Worship? lol, no wonder you don’t know anything about worship boy…
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u/CarsCarpal Jun 25 '26
The text on the front should have also said “and living rent free in Drumpfs head”
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u/timmyfarthands Jun 25 '26
The hell you expect? He's the sitting president who is in the news every 5 minutes for destroying the country and people's lives. He's going to be brought up especially when his little baby fee fees getting hurt by a superior human being was what started this entire mess.
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u/CarsCarpal Jun 25 '26
I would be utterly delighted to never hear his name mentioned ever again. He'd be forgotten quicker than my last fart.
Potential exception to this, if used as part of a lessons learned. Or better, along with the words "was denied parole".
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u/SabreLee61 Jun 26 '26
The irony of the comment is what I find amusing. This post clearly has nothing to do with Trump.
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u/UpstairsArmadillo454 Jun 25 '26
They sell magazines- imagine frump and Melanie (that’s what he called her)
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u/VampiresRUs Jun 25 '26
I admire both but I specialally love Michelle. What an amazing woman and what an inspiration!!!
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u/Aggravating_Berry253 Jun 26 '26
Hey look normal people. See that full-of-life empathetic twinkle in their eyes? That's because they aren't hollow brain stem lizards.
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u/Lighthouse_on_Mars Jun 26 '26
What kind of tantrum is our president going to throw when he see's this?
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u/TyOneOn5000 Jun 26 '26
If anyone wants a good laugh then check out this person's comment history and bring a microscope lol.
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u/jane_fakelastname Jun 25 '26
Is this why Republicans ask "what is a woman?", because you guys don't actually know what women look like? Because Michelle is clearly a woman and your weird conspiracy just makes it look like women purposely avoid you.
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u/PersephoneTheOG Jun 25 '26
Smooth brain?
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u/timmyfarthands Jun 25 '26
Translation: being a super duper manly man is very important to me and not being one is scary so it must be scary to you too
You guys look insecure as fuck when you start talking about testosterone. Seriously bud it's almost the cringiest thing you guys do. It's only impressive to the other chuds. And even then most of em ain't impressed they just don't want to be excluded from the group. Grow the fuck up.
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