{"id":39561,"date":"2025-04-23T10:59:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/why-is-the-us-right-so-obsessed-with-the-obamas-marriage-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:59:56","slug":"why-is-the-us-right-so-obsessed-with-the-obamas-marriage-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/why-is-the-us-right-so-obsessed-with-the-obamas-marriage-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the US right so obsessed with the Obamas\u2019 marriage? | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative commentators can\u2019t stand the idea that people they loathe can live fulfilling lives<\/p>\n<p>An estate on Martha\u2019s Vineyard. A nine-bedroom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/06\/02\/photos-of-the-obamas-8-point-1-million-washington-d-c-house.html\">house in DC<\/a>. A family home in Chicago. Barack and Michelle Obama own about a gazillion dollars\u2019 worth of property. Turns out they don\u2019t need any of their fancy mansions, however, because they live rent-free in rightwing commentators\u2019 heads. While the right has always been fixated on trying to find fault with former president Obama, they have now become unhealthily obsessed with the idea that Barack and Michelle\u2019s marriage is failing. There\u2019s no evidence to support this, mind you. Just vibes<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Picking up on these mysterious vibes is conservative commentator Megyn Kelly, who recently proclaimed on her podcast that she thinks Michelle and Barack \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/04\/19\/celebrity-news\/megyn-kelly-blasts-michelle-and-barack-obamas-marriage\/\">married the wrong people<\/a>\u201d. Many straws were grasped at to come to this conclusion \u2013 including the fact that Michelle once said that she likes going to bed early (wise woman) and her husband doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/apr\/23\/why-is-the-us-right-so-obsessed-with-the-obamas-marriage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative commentators can\u2019t stand the idea that people they loathe can live fulfilling lives An estate on Martha\u2019s Vineyard. A nine-bedroom house in DC. A family home in Chicago. Barack and Michelle Obama own about a gazillion dollars\u2019 worth of property. Turns out they don\u2019t need any of their fancy mansions, however, because they live &#8230; <a title=\"Why is the US right so obsessed with the Obamas\u2019 marriage? | Arwa Mahdawi\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/why-is-the-us-right-so-obsessed-with-the-obamas-marriage-arwa-mahdawi\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why is the US right so obsessed with the Obamas\u2019 marriage? | Arwa Mahdawi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}