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The couple have also had to contend with lingering rumours of Barack’s wandering eye. Last October, Friends star Jennifer Aniston publicly dismissed as ‘absolutely untrue’ claims by a US gossip magazine that she and Barack were in a relationship –making Michelle feel ‘betrayed’.The rumour was compounded by the hosts of a popular pop culture podcast – Who? Weekly – who claimed that the Obamas were ‘living separate lives’ while he and Aniston were having a full-blown affair. Aniston told a US TV chat show host: ‘I’ve met him once. I know Michelle more than him.’

Andrew Slavitt, a former executive at the technology company tasked with saving HealthCare.gov and current second-in-command at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was granted an ethics waiver by the Department of Health and Human Services to begin working with his former company immediately.The waiver was granted despite Republican lawmakers’ concerns about Slavitt’s potential conflict of interest. The Daily Signal revealed those concerns in a story yesterday.Slavitt, a former OptumInsight/QSSI group vice president, left the company last month to work as the principal deputy administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs Obamacare and HealthCare.gov. His...

MARTHA'S VINEYARD — According to sources, Barack Obama has filed for divorce from his wife Michelle after discovering she is actually a woman. "I've been wrong...so wrong," the former president confessed to a few close friends soon after his realization. "I mean, it's a little embarrassing to realize that I've been thinking Michelle's name was 'Michael' this whole time, but what's worse is that she's not actually one of the ga — excuse me, one of the guys, like us. I can't believe I actually fell for a woman." Reports from the Obama household had previously indicated that the...

Kid Rock told 'Jesse Watters Primetime' he put politics aside and performed at Barack Obama's inauguration

Donald Trump never revealed what he and former president Barack Obama discussed in the viral footage from Jimmy Carter's funeral though he happily shared the parody video of their discussion. Trump shared the parody video on X showcasing the version where Obama praised Trump and said, "Yeah. I bet. I knew you'd win." "I can't talk, we have to find a quiet place sometime. This is a matter of importance and we need to do this outside so that we can deal with it, certainly, today." "I've pulled out of that. It's the conditions. Can you believe it?" Trump said,...

Are the Obamas headed for a divorce? The tabloids are abuzz after Michelle Obama skipped Jimmy Carter’s funeral and announced she won’t be attending Trump’s inauguration. Barack Obama attended Jimmy Carter’s funeral alone after his wife had a so-called scheduling conflict. “Former President Barack Obama is confirmed to attend the 60th Inaugural Ceremonies. Former First Lady Michelle Obama will not attend the upcoming inauguration.” – Michelle Obama’s spox said. Rumors are swirling that Michelle and Barack are on the outs. Hearing serious talk that the reason Michelle isn’t at the funeral isn’t that she wasn’t invited, but that she and...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Former first lady Michelle Obama will skip the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, the second time in two weeks that she is not attending a gathering of former U.S. leaders and their spouses, but former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton will be there. Laura Bush and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will join their husbands for the Jan. 20 swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol, representatives said. “Former President Barack Obama is confirmed to attend the 60th Inaugural Ceremonies. Former first lady Michelle Obama will not attend the upcoming inauguration,” said...

Councils and universities urged to boycott Holocaust Memorial Day by Iran-linked group. The Telegraph, Jan 11, 2025. Link___Fury over plot to boycott Holocaust Memorial Day in Gaza row - 'disgraceful!'. As the world gears up to remember the Holocaust, a contentious campaign urging a boycott of the memorial day has stirred deep emotions and heated debates. By Giles Sheldrick, Jan 12, 2025. A campaign to boycott Holocaust Memorial Day has sparked fury from those preparing to mark the landmark anniversary. It is understood the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) which has links to Iran has written to 460 councils and...

VIDEOThey just can't stand it. How dare Barack Obama talk amiably with President Trump. It is just something they can't tolerate since they think Orange Man Bad should have been OSTRACIZED at Jimmy Carter's funeral. Watch the Bluesky Bolsheviks throw conniption fits over Obama talking in a very chummy manner with Trump.

President Joe Biden’s final report card is in and it doesn’t read well for the departing Democrat. Americans have a darker view of the octogenarian’s tenure than they did at the end of predecessors Donald Trump’s first term or Barack Obama’s second, a poll released Friday finds. Around one-quarter of U.S. adults said Biden was a “good” or “great” president, with less than one in 10 saying he was “great,” according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Tellingly for the Democrat octogenarian, many members of his own party seeing his presidency as underwhelmingly mediocre.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) characterized former President Obama’s interaction with President-elect Trump at the National Cathedral Thursday as an effort to “kiss the ring” of the incoming commander in chief. “I mean it’s about a redemption story, right? I mean, the greatest political comeback of all times,” Mullin said of the Republican on an appearance of “The Benny Show.” “What you see right there is Barack Obama realizing it and realize that he kind of probably should kiss the ring, because President Trump is the most popular man in the world and probably the most popular man in our lifetime...

President-elect Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attended President Jimmy Carter’s funeral and were seated with other former presidents and their spouses in a single pew, where Trump had a long conversation with former President Barack Obama. The Trumps were the first to enter. The President-elect met with and shook hands with former Vice President Mike Pence and former Vice President Al Gore before taking his seat. The seating order, from left to right, was by presidential seniority: former President Bill Clinton, first lady Hillary Clinton, former President George W. Bush, first lady Laura Bush, Obama, Donald Trump, and...

All living former first ladies attended former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral on Thursday, except Michelle Obama. Former first lady Michelle Obama did not attend because she reportedly had “scheduling conflicts,” journalist Jeff Zeleny told CNN. “She’s still in Hawaii,” Zeleny said, underscoring the lack of an open seat next to her husband. “Mrs. Obama sends her thoughts and prayers to the Carter family, and everyone who loved and learned from the remarkable former President,” her spokesperson told reporters. Because of Michelle Obama’s absence, former President Barack Obama sat in between President-elect Trump and former first lady Laura Bush. The former...

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes · No longer a conspiracy theory Former FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich says Barack Obama’s DOJ forced the deletion of 500,000 fugitives (many pedophiles) from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System NICS For years fact checkers have wrote articles “debunking” this

You can smell it in the air. A deep sense of betrayal among Democratic voters. An underlying realization that the Democratic party’s politburo — Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries, and their courtiers of elected official and consultant sycophants — sold voters a bill of goods: the gaslighting of the public on President Biden’s decrepitude; the false idol of the Kamala Harris “campaign of joy” as a smart last-minute stand-in; and the repeated cowering to the far left whose wokeness and moral condescension turns off most voters. In a just world, one might expect a formal no-confidence vote on this leadership failure....

We first wrote about the case of U.S. Army 1LT Clint Lorance of Texas last year. His was what I termed a seriously gross miscarriage of justice. Those of us who have been stationed in Afghanistan know the tactics and actions of the enemy. Any time two or more individuals are on a motorcycle approaching your convoy or position you can bet — if unarmed — they are scouts. And if they are scouts for a main attack, they are just as dangerous a threat. Herein lies the problem of our methods of prosecuting combat operations — not overseas contingency...

Hearing that this is the wife of the Matthew Livelsberger, the 37-year-old green beret and suspect in the Trump Las Vegas hotel Cybertruck explosion

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO urged Russia on Friday to work with it on missile defense and proposed looking at ways eventually to link U.S., NATO and Russian anti-missile systems. One day after Washington scrapped a missile defense plan for Europe which Russia opposed, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Russia and the Western defense alliance should conduct a joint review of the security challenges they face. "I would like Russia and NATO to agree to carry out a joint review of the new 21st century security challenges, to serve as a firm basis for our future cooperation," Rasmussen said in...

As desperate, phony, and even dangerous of a campaign Democrats ran this year, and as embarrassing as the outcome was for all of them, nobody came out looking more pathetic than Barack Obama. From 2024’s vantage point, is there any way to look at his legacy but as a tragic blight on American history? In the final months of the campaign, Obama seemed to know the outcome of the election would say just as much about him as it would about Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, or Donald Trump. And, like all realistic Democrats, he knew that the nominee he supported...

Former First Lady Michelle Obama garnered a wave of online backlash after sharing a “Happy Holidays” post that addressed people feeling “anxious and uncertain” after the November election. In an Instagram video featuring her voiceover, she highlighted the work of the Obama Presidential Center while acknowledging that “it’s been a difficult few months for so many of us”: “…folks are feeling a little bit anxious and uncertain. But even during these tough times, there are plenty of reasons to stay hopeful,” Obama added, before bringing up the foundation’s programs.