Michelle Obama Explains Why She’ll Never Run For President | EUROtoday

Michelle Obama has as soon as once more gone on the file to substantiate that the prospect of one other Obama within the White House may be very a lot a pipe dream.

Appearing on Kylie Kelce’s “Not Gonna Lie” podcast this week, the previous first girl dismissed the persistent rumors she’s contemplating working for president sooner or later as “unthinkable.”

“When people ask me, would I ever run? The answer is no,” she mentioned. “If you ask me that, then you have absolutely no idea the sacrifice that your kids make when their parents are in that role. Not only am I not interested in politics in that way, but the thought of putting my girls back into that spotlight when they are just now establishing themselves … I think we’ve done enough.”

As if to preemptively silence those that would possibly nonetheless be holding out hope, she added: “Question asked and answered, never gonna happen.”

Listen to Michelle Obama’s “Not Gonna Lie” chat under. Her feedback in regards to the chance she’ll run for workplace start across the 25:46 mark.

Obama repeatedly expressed her disinterest in politics whereas her husband, former President Barack Obama, was nonetheless in workplace. In latest months, she’s additionally taken notable steps to take away herself from the political sphere and was noticeably absent from each former President Jimmy Carter’s Jan. 4 funeral and President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.

That doesn’t imply she’s exited the general public eye, in fact. This month, she and her brother Craig Robinson unveiled a brand new podcast, “IMO,” that may deal with subjects corresponding to parenting, relationships and monetary planning.

Even so, hypothesis that Michelle Obama would think about working for workplace has remained rampant on each side of the political aisle. Prior to former President Joe Biden dropping his 2024 reelection bid, numerous distinguished Republicans publicly instructed the previous first girl would substitute Biden on the poll.

Elsewhere in her “Not Gonna Lie” chat, Obama mentioned that making ready daughters Sasha and Malia Obama for his or her post-White House lives was already on her thoughts once they first arrived on the White House in 2009.

“When we entered, I had to make sure that they’re normal and ready when this is all over and they have to get on a bus and make their own plane reservations and live in an apartment and be sane and live in the world,” she defined. “I wanted to give my girls enough rope to live and be normal teenagers, but I was also worrying about them turning up on Page Six because they were doing what normal kids would do without that many eyes on them.”