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Former President Barack Obama<\/a> said that pressure on him to continue being politically active throughout the Trump administration has created tension in his marriage with former first lady Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n

“She wants to see her husband easing up and spending more time with her, enjoying what remains of our lives,” Obama told The New Yorker in an interview published May 4<\/a>. “It does create a genuine tension in our household, and it frustrates her.”<\/p>\n

Early in President Donald Trump’s<\/a> first term, Obama had largely followed the previous political norm of a former president remaining tight-lipped on his successor’s moves. But as time wound on, the 44th president began weighing in considerably more.<\/p>\n

During Trump’s second administration, Obama has further broken those norms, arguably becoming the current president’s most high-profile critic, a fact Obama acknowledged in his interview with The New Yorker.<\/p>\n

MICHELLE OBAMA SAYS AMERICA GOING THROUGH ITS ‘JANKY’ ERA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“People aren\u2019t looking at me in historical comparison to other presidents,” he told the magazine. “They don\u2019t care about the fact that no other ex-president was the main surrogate for the party for four election cycles after they left office.”<\/p>\n

But Obama claimed that Trump’s “recklessness” forced his hand, The New Yorker wrote, prompting him to weigh in on a wide swath of Trump’s actions from pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Accords to dismantling Obama’s signature domestic policy<\/a> achievement, the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

His opposition to Trump has spurred Obama to delve back into politics “more than I would have preferred,” he told the magazine.<\/p>\n

OBAMA’S ‘ICONIC VOICE’ ECLIPSED IN 2025 ELECTION BY TRUMP-ERA ECONOMIC, AFFORDABILITY COMPLAINTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Obama has become a flag-bearer for the Democratic Party’s<\/a> key issues of the day, most recently pushing the party’s redistricting effort in Virginia to his nearly 120 million followers on X.<\/p>\n

Five posts Obama sent urging Virginians to vote yes on a ballot measure<\/a> that redrew Virginia’s congressional districts heavily in favor of Democrats garnered over 220 million views, according to X’s publicly visible statistics.<\/p>\n

The language Obama used in the posts was considerably partisan.<\/p>\n

MICHELLE OBAMA’S PODCAST PUTS HER IN LIMELIGHT IN NEW TRUMP ERA, BUT SHE’S NOT COMING TO DEMOCRATS’ RESCUE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Free and fair elections<\/a> are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they\u2019re under attack. Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections,” Obama wrote in a March 5 post on X.<\/p>\n

MICHELLE OBAMA MOCKS RUMORS THAT HER MARRIAGE IS IN TROUBLE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Micelle Obama, not unlike her husband, has taken to new media to air many of her grievances with the Trump administration, often criticizing the president on other podcasts<\/a>, as well as her own.<\/p>\n

Obama’s revelation is not the first time he’s publicly addressed strife in his marriage. In 2025, he admitted<\/a> he had been “digging myself out of the hole I found myself in with Michelle,” after she did not join him during the January funeral for former President Jimmy Carter or for Trump’s second inauguration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/obama-admits-genuine-tension-marriage-pressure-stay-politics <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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