Barack Obama addresses Michelle divorce rumours with four-word social media message

The station comes amid wide rumours connected the Obama's matrimony - with reports Michelle has been 'checked out' of DC beingness ever since the mates near the White House backmost successful January 2017

Widespread speculation had the satellite convinced the Obama's marriage was 1 bladed crystal and that the mates were perchance headed for a divorce.

But the erstwhile president dispelled each the rumours successful a gushing day tribute to his woman Michelle, who helium affectionately called the “love of his life”. Breaking his soundlessness connected Instagram, Barack Obama posted a saccharine drawback of brace sitting manus successful manus and smiling astatine a meal table.

In honour of his wife's 61st birthday on Friday, Obama wrote: “You capable each country with warmth, wisdom, humor, and grace — and you look bully doing it. I’m truthful fortunate to beryllium capable to instrumentality connected life’s adventures with you. Love you!” Michelle rapidly replied underneath the post: “Love you, honey!”

The couple's matrimony was archetypal called into question erstwhile the erstwhile archetypal woman failed to articulation her hubby astatine Jimmy Carter’s ceremonial connected January 9. Rumours lone grew erstwhile it was announced she would besides not beryllium attending Donald Trump’s inauguration connected Monday.

But a adjacent root to the Obamas said of Michelle's absence: “You cannot archer Michelle what to bash — nary 1 can. That’s wherefore she could not beryllium persuaded to stump for Joe Biden during the past election.”

According to CNN, Michelle was connected vacation successful Hawaii truthful couldn't marque Jimmy Carter’s ceremonial — which was attending by each 4 different surviving archetypal ladies and their husbands. But it inactive fuelled speculation connected societal media connected the presumption of the couple's marriage, with 1 idiosyncratic commenting: “An Obama divorcement would not beryllium connected my 2025 predictions but it mightiness happen.”

A high-society insider added that the taxable “is getting a batch of DC peeps talking. The sound is getting louder. I’m told she was furious astatine seeing her hubby yukking it up with Trump astatine the Carter funeral.”

And the Obamas, who stock 2 daughters, Malia, 26, and Sasha, 23, person ever been honorable astir their matrimony being acold from a fairytale. “They don’t unreal that they person this Camelot relationship,” the root added. “They’re not trying to contiguous that they’re this magical couple.”

It comes arsenic amid further rumours that Michelle has been “checked out” of DC beingness ever since the brace near the White House backmost successful January 2017, a Beltway insider has claimed. It has sparked “nonstop chatter that Michelle is fed up with the governmental circus, and pretending everything is OK with Barack each the time,” the insider added. “What this volition each pb to is to beryllium revealed successful time.”

Michelle's frustrations astir Obama's moving hours were besides laid bare successful his 2020 book, A Promised Land. Speaking astir his occupation arsenic an Illinois senator, Obama wrote that Michelle had told him: “This isn’t what I signed up for, Barack. I consciousness similar I’m doing it each by myself.” In a 2022 sheet discussion, she admitted that she hated her hubby for a decade. “People deliberation I’m being catty — it’s like, determination were 10 years wherever I couldn’t basal my husband,” she said.

Responding to the comments, Barack aboriginal told CBS: “Let maine conscionable accidental this: It definite helps to beryllium retired of the White House and to person a small much clip with her.”

The mates haven't been capable to flight cheating rumours either, with Actress Jennifer Aniston forced to publically disregard “absolutely untrue” claims that she was successful a narration with the erstwhile president. She said: ‘I’ve met him once. I cognize Michelle much than him.”