Barack Obama Reacts to Malia Obama Dropping Last Name Professionally

E! News ^ | October 30, 2024 | Sabba Rahbar

[C19fan]

Barack Obama understands why Malia Obama wanted a stage name.

When debuting her film The Heart at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in February, the 26-year-old daughter of the former president and Michelle Obama opted to drop the last name Obama, instead using her middle name and going by Malia Ann. And according to Barack—who is also dad to Sasha Obama, 23—her choice didn't surprise him.

"The challenge for us is letting us give them any help at all," Barack confessed on the Oct. 29 episode of The Pivot Podcast. "I mean they're very sensitive about this stuff. They're very stubborn about it."

[C19fan]

LMAO. These nepo babies dropping their famous last names as if we are so stupid to think their last name had nothing do with getting opportunities in the entertainment industry.

[C19fan]

If Malia was a Williams instead of an Obama would she get the opportunity to make a movie?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

So Barry Soetoro is sad that his girl changed her name? That is so sad.

[PGalt]

Barry Soetoro - D eceiver

[Leep]

Who cares what she calls herself I can hardly wait for her movie to be released.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Cash in while they’re young. Look at the mother and see what the future holds.

[drwoof]

How dramatic and significant. Good Lord. Nobody cares, but for the small circle of equally self-absorbed nitwits she runs with.

[SMARTY]

“... they’re very sensitive about this stuff. They’re very stubborn about it....”

I call BS on that right there! 🙄

[Apparatchik]

This is the epitome of privilege.

[The Duke]

"Who cares what she calls herself I can hardly wait for her movie to be released."

Now you're just being cruel.

[butlerweave]

People know who they are and a democrat name change will make no difference

[Omnivore-Dan]

Oh! Bummer!

[cnsmom]

She has been a prop her whole life. I hope she finally gets billions exposing her disfunctional abusive family.

[KarlInOhio]

If Malia was a Williams instead of an Obama would she get the opportunity to make a movie?

Only if she had a 100+ mph serve like Venus and Serena.

[Macho MAGA Man]

She was never his daughter in the first place.

[ClearCase_guy]

Are these people genetically related?

[nwrep]

They want to get the benefits from the name but don’t want the average retard who is their audience to know they got those benefits.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It sounds like the girls know their parents are crooks. I’ll bet they heard a lot of things that disgusted them in that household over the years.

[CatOwner]

I’m trying to find a “I Don’t Give A Damn” meme about someone who, sadly, looks too much like her racist mother.

[virgil]

Or maybe they discovered the name is fake.