Over the past few months, rumors have been swirling that Barack and Michelle Obama are heading for divorce. According to these rumors, Barack and Michelle have been living “separate lives” for quite some time.
Last week, we reported that Barack had admitted that he’s been “trying to dig myself out of a hole with Michelle” for “over eight years.” Now, Barack is doubling down on this in a big way.
Barack Sounds Off On His Marriage
While speaking in London’s O2 Arena as part of his European speaking tour, Barack confirmed that his time in the White House drastically negatively impacted his relationship with Michelle.
“I was digging myself out of the hole I found myself in with Michelle,” confessed Barack, 64. “Now I’m at about level ground.”
Barack went on to say that it’s been “challenging” to get his marriage with Michelle, 61, back on track.
Barack made nearly identical comments about the state of his marriage while giving a speech at a Jefferson Educational Society event in Erie, Pennsylvania last week.
“I have spent over eight years now trying to dig myself out of a hole with Michelle,” Barack said in that speech.
“And that’s been challenging, but I feel like I’m making progress,” he added. “I’m almost breaking even at the moment.”
Barack also talked about trying to dig himself out of “a hole” with Michelle during an appearance at Hamilton College back in April.
“I was in a deep deficit with my wife,” Barack said at the time. “So I have been trying to dig myself out of that hole by doing occasionally fun things.”
That doesn’t sound very promising for the future of the Obamas’ marriage, now does it?!
Obama Divorce Rumors
This comes at a difficult time for the Obamas, who have been married since 1992. Indeed, rumors have been swirling for months that the Obamas are heading for divorce.
These divorce rumors escalated in a big way back in January, when Michelle, 61, skipped both the funeral of Jimmy Carter and the inauguration of Donald Trump. She was the only living former First Lady to miss each of these events. This forced Barack to attend both of these major events alone.
“I have been hearing this rumor that the Obamas are getting a divorce by reputable people,” political commentator Meghan McCain said on reporter Tara Palmeri’s podcast earlier this year. “I’m not talking about TMZ, I’m not talking about Perez Hilton, although I love him, he’s my friend.”
“I’m talking about like very serious journalists telling me that they’re hearing that the Obama divorce rumors are true,” she continued.
“We’ve heard that for a long time,” replied Tara, who has long covered Washington politics. “Like I just heard that they live separate lives.”
Listen to Meghan and Tara talk more about this in the clip below.
Michelle Accused Of ‘Really Disliking’ Barack
Michelle launched her IMO podcast with her older brother Craig Robinson back in March. Since then, Michelle has used it to bash Barack and air his dirty laundry seemingly every chance she gets.
In fact, Michelle has complained about Barack so many times on her podcast that the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently claimed that the former First Lady “really dislikes her husband, and it’s super obvious.”
“I’m not just saying that to be catty,” Tucker explained. “I think I’m trying to feel compassion for her but her hostility toward the guy is unbelievable.”
Tucker’s fellow former Fox News host Megyn Kelly was quick to agree. She pointed out that “everything Michelle says about her husband is negative.”
“I almost never say negative things about Doug,” Megyn added, referring to her husband Doug Brunt. “He’s not perfect but when I think about him, I don’t immediately go to whatever is negative. I go to what’s positive and what I love about him.”
Watch Tucker and Megyn talk more about this in the video below.
The Obamas Respond
Back in July, Barack appeared on Michelle’s IMO podcast. There, they desperately tried to shoot down the escalating divorce rumors.
“There hasn’t been one moment in our marriage where I thought about quitting my man,” Michelle claimed. “And we’ve had some really hard times. So we 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.”
“These are the kinds of things that I just miss, right?” Barack chimed in to add. “So I don’t even know this stuff’s going on. And then somebody will mention it to me and I’m all like, ‘what are you talking about?'”
Unfortunately for the Obamas, however, many are not buying their claims that their marriage is still going strong.
Barack’s frequent comments about trying to dig himself out of “a hole” with Michelle for years will certainly do nothing to help their case that all is well in their marriage. Only time will tell if the Obama marriage will actually survive!