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Former POTUS Barack Obama, who’s currently enjoying a podcast run alongside Bruce Springsteen with Spotify’s Renegades: Born in the USA, has always made music a key element in his day-to-day life. He recently shared with his nearly 35 million Instagram followers the opportunity to send him questions about his podcast or other topics that he would answer, and […]
Former president Barack Obama wished the former first lady and his wife Michelle a happy birthday on Sunday, in celebration of her 57th birthday. “Happy birthday to my love, my partner, and my best friend,” Obama wrote on Instagram, alongside a photo of a younger Michelle in a yellow tank top. “Every moment with you […]
Former POTUS Barack Obama‘s new book A Promised Land, released Nov. 17, bagged the largest first-day sales total for any book ever published by Penguin Random House. The publisher announced this week that Obama’s book sold more than 887,000 units in all formats and editions in the U.S. and Canada on its first day of […]
Donald Trump made another desperate attempt to win back suburban voters. And the classist, racist undertones couldn’t be ignored. On Wednesday, the president returned to Twitter to celebrate the repeal of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing law—an Obama-era regulation that aimed to combat racial discrimination. Trump told suburbanites that his decision to rescind the rule meant […]
Former President Barack Obama has some thoughts on how Donald Trump’s administration has responded to the coronavirus pandemic. As CNN reports, Obama called the administration’s response “an absolute chaotic disaster,” echoing the sentiments many of us have been feeling these past few months. His comments were made during a private call on Friday, and they have been confirmed by three […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed to undo Michelle Obama’s legacy by easing up on stricter nutritional standards for school breakfasts and lunches—and adding insult to injury by making the announcement on her birthday. MSN reports that the USDA has presented new tentative rules for the Food and Nutrition Service that would permit schools to slash […]
Former President Barack Obama told attendees at a private event in Singapore that women make better leaders than men. He admitted that women aren’t perfect, but they are “pretty indisputably” better than men. “Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is that you’re […]
As the Democratic party becomes flooded with presidential candidates, former President Barack Obama decided to issue a warning to the party in hopes that it will be able to win this upcoming election. While speaking to potential donors on Friday, Obama applauded the party’s candidates for taking progressive steps with their policies. Yet, he cautioned them not to […]
According to the New York Times, a video combining photoshopped heads/media logos with the church massacre scene from Kingsman: The Secret Service was shown during a conference held for Trump supporters this past week at Trump’s Miami resort, Trump National Doral Miami. Simply summarized: the clip had Trump’s face superimposed over Kingman’s protagonist prior to gunning […]
Noting the potential for “a lot of noise” and judgment clouding, former POTUS Barack Obama advised Wednesday that his successors avoid the pitfalls of television and social media. Speaking at a San Francisco event hosted by data analysis company Splunk on Wednesday, Obama said a “team with a diversity of opinion” around you is necessary in […]
