The former First Lady Michelle Obama spoke out this week to make a truly shocking claim about “white” men. This comes amidst rampant rumors that Michelle and her husband, the former President Barack Obama, are headed for divorce.
Michelle Takes Apparent Dig At ‘White’ Men
While appearing at SXSW London on Tuesday, June 2, Michelle bizarrely and outrageously claimed that white men don’t need to worry about imposter syndrome. Michelle boasted that she has had a seat “at every powerful table there is.” Despite this, she claims to have never met a white man in her life who has admitted to feeling this sense of self-doubt.
During her SXSW London appearance, Michelle said that she wants to “demystify” what it’s like to sit at elite meetings. She added that these meetings are often populated by people from diverse backgrounds who felt like outsiders.
“There’s so many people like me, like you: women, minorities, folks who aren’t supposed to be at these tables … they are sitting around thinking that they’re impostors,” said Michelle, 62.
“I’ve never heard a white man talk about impostor syndrome,” she continued. “I haven’t met one.”
Merriam-Webster defines imposter syndrome as being “a psychological condition that is characterized by persistent doubt concerning one’s abilities or accomplishments accompanied by the fear of being exposed as a fraud despite evidence of one’s ongoing success.”
This condition clearly has nothing to do with race. According to Michelle, however, white men are simply immune from ever doubting themselves and their own abilities.
You can’t make this stuff up…
Both Michelle and Barack, 64, have spent years seemingly trying to divide us all along racial lines as much as possible. Given their history of shameless race-baiting, perhaps Michelle’s latest comments about “white” men aren’t so surprising after all.
Obama Divorce Rumors
This comes at a difficult time for both Michelle and Barack. Indeed, they have been plagued by rampant divorce rumors for over a year.
These divorce rumors escalated in a big way back in January of last year, when Michelle 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 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 in 2025. “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 back in March of last year. 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 has 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 own 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.”
The Obamas Respond
Back in July of last year, 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 still not buying their claims that their marriage is still going strong.
Perhaps Michelle should focus a little more on her marriage, and a little less on taking psychological digs at “white” men. Only time will tell if the Obama marriage will survive.