I know I'm supposed to write my piece on the Democrats' obsession with Donald Trump's political end looming just around the corner with the release of the Epstein files. Lord knows, that's what the Democrats seem all up in arms about and what a lot of columnists are writing up.
I seem to recall a time in the not-so-distant past when Senate Democrats closed down government and held everybody hostage until they got $1.5 trillion dollars to prop up the failing Obamacare program. That didn't work. Now, nobody is talking about Obamacare. It's all Epstein, all the time, and the end apparently being nearer than ever for Trump. Except a funny thing keeps happening. Days tick by, and the only people getting caught in the Epstein web are Democrats. It's almost as though Epsteingate is Russiagate 2.0 - a fabricated narrative that, with media help, is being used to insinuate the President is corrupt and needs to go. When the associations to America's most notorious serial child abuser point back at them, they dodge and spin wildly.
I'm pretty bored with the entire story because we've seen this game before. Different premise than Russiagate, but it's the same game nonetheless - slime and smear with innuendo and repetition, and by the time facts come out that destroy the narrative, move onto the next shiny object that can be twisted to hurt Trump.
But since we at least were supposed to be talking about Barack Obama's singular accomplishment, the Unaffordable Care Act and what to do with it now that the money has run out and the program doesn't work as advertised, it reminded me there's been a book tour over the last couple weeks that have revealed some jaw-dropping excerpts, and it's been largely glossed over due to the rest of the political circus in which we find ourselves.
Michelle Obama, spousal unit of Barack and First Lady of these United States for eight excruciatingly long years, especially if you were a kid in school looking for chips and sodas instead of tofu and kale for lunch, is out with a new book - The Look. I can't tell you what to think about the book, because I will not spend a moment reading it. But if I were to form my opinions based upon her more notable media interviews of late, what I can say is her ability to resonate with average Americans and convince them to buy The Look is, well, to use a phrase, a bad look.
The latest charm offensive by the former First Lady began on Halloween morning with an interview on ABC's Good Morning America with Robin Roberts, in which Michelle said this.
Michelle Obama complains: “We didn't get the grace that I think some other (first) families have gotten." pic.twitter.com/wgLY3TZqFD
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 31, 2025
We didn't get the grace? Didn't we just go through a bunch of No Kings rallies? I was unaware that simply getting elected meant you were automatically afforded grace. If that were true, then everyone referring to Donald Trump as Hitler might owe him an apology. Where should George W. Bush have gone to get his grace after the entire left-wing ecosphere, including media, said his daddy's Supreme Court gave him the election over Al Gore, and the outgoing Clinton administration staff either glued or removed all the W's from the building's typewriters and keyboards?
And speaking of grace, I don't seem to remember the feds raiding one of Michelle's three houses and going through her underwear drawer.
Grace? As in the FBI rifling through your underwear drawer kind of grace? That could probably be arranged. pic.twitter.com/7NLiIDh7aR
— Chief Noticer of Things (@laightrepublic) October 31, 2025
But on the merits of her complaint, one of several complaints over which Michelle seems to have become embittered, here's just a sample of the lack of grace media outlets showed her and her husband.
From the Los Angeles Times:
Barack Obama built a new kind of Camelot for a new generation
From the BBC:
Obama echoes JFK's Camelot romance
From the Washington Post:
Barack Obama - Camelot's New Knight
I could go on for a very long time with links to the sycophantic ink spilled on the eight years of Obamas in the White House. As for just Michelle as First Lady, the number of magazine covers she graced was in the dozens.
Yea ok pic.twitter.com/ynPyhBBArH
— Bilbo Baggins (@Jbanklestankle1) November 1, 2025
If Michelle Obama is looking for grace, she needs Jesus, because that's where she's going to find it in this world. She got whatever grace left-wing media could give her, and it apparently still wasn't enough. What she seems to have wanted was devotion and worship.
One of her next stand-out appearances on the book swing was on stage with Tracee Ellis Ross, in which she complained about having to continually straighten her hair to appeal to white folk.
White people are forcing Michelle Obama to straighten her hair. But one day the former First Lady of the United States and co-founder of Higher Ground will find the strength to stop paying her hairdresser to do it. ✊🏽 pic.twitter.com/jwx2vMgvhd
— Lou Perez (@TheLouPerez) November 14, 2025
Now, if this were the only issue I had with her overall attitude of late, I'd let it slide, because she's clearly trying to lighten the mood and be funny. But in the context of her previous and forthcoming clips we'll feature, it's this attitude of ingratitude that is so off-putting. The interview setting in which she appeared was with a Black host and was in front of a largely Black audience, not that anyone would or should care. No one made her straighten her hair out for this. I'm pretty sure they would have given her a standing ovation and embraced her comments regardless of how she coiffed her hair. Actually, I should revise that for clarity. They would have embraced her regardless of how much she paid someone to coif her hair.
I referred to this clip earlier in the week, but it bears repeating because it's so on brand with Michelle Obama's mastery of the politics of ingratitude. In that same interview with Diana Ross' daughter, she poured cold water on the prospects of her running one day for president. Fair enough. Not everybody wants to put themselves through what one has endured these days to get that gig. But it's her reasoning that is so profoundly grating.
In 2008, after her husband having only been on the scene in national politics as a United States Senator from Illinois for less than two years, Michelle found herself involved in a very contentious primary battle for the Democratic nomination for president. Hillary Clinton, who objectively had vast amounts more experience than Barack, including a longer stint as senator from New York, and who represented the first real opportunity for a woman to break the ultimate glass ceiling - running and winning a campaign for the presidency, was nevertheless looked askance at by Michelle for being part of the old guard, the establishment, when the country needed new blood that only Barack could provide. Michelle never criticized Hillary personally, but she certainly helped pave a layer of bricks to protect that glass ceiling from shattering that year. John McCain, who would become the Republican nominee, would have lost to almost anyone the Democrats put up that cycle, and that includes Hillary Clinton.
In 2024, after Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection as president, the Obamas initially tried to block Kamala Harris from getting the nod. They preferred a mini-primary season to let Democratic voters decide who'd get the nomination. This was reported in Jon Allen and Amie Parne's 2024 campaign tell-all, Fight. The Obamas both thought Kamala couldn't win, so they were trying to prevent her from coalescing all the Biden delegates and locking up the nomination before anyone could do anything about it.
So not once, but twice did Michelle Obama work, even if it was subtly and/or covertly to block a woman from winning a presidential election. For her to now light up people there buying her book and paying to listen to her speak that they're not ready for a woman president and they need to grow up strikes me as a special kind of classlessness.
And again, going back to the left's love of the No Kings movement when it is applied to Donald Trump, it sure sounds like Michelle doesn't want to have to work for the job. If she were to take part in any future political process, it would only be under the circumstances that the country would just hand the keys to the White House over to her.
Even Dana Perino felt it necessary to point out her better-than-thee attitude in this clip from Fox News' The Five.
Michelle Obama says Americans need to grow up because we “aren’t ready for a woman President”…@DanaPerino : “I just hope that one day we can stop disappointing Michelle and Barack Obama.” pic.twitter.com/vFFKV6KgED
— The Five (@TheFive) November 18, 2025
The piece de resistance, the chef's kiss of her book tour, was this clip on a podcast called The Look with Jenna Lyons.
Now you might have been severely affected by the Schumer shutdown for the last couple months. You might have had to take out a short-term loan in order to pay rent since your paycheck didn't exist for a while. You could be one of the Americans that truly need SNAP assistance, not one of the thousands of fraudulant claimants. If one looks at the early data in polling for the 2026 midterm elections, it looks like Democrats have opened up a sizeable advantage, because the perception out there is that Donald Trump and the Republicans have not talked about, and more importantly, done enough to solve the problem of affordability. The shutdown didn't help.
It doesn't matter to polling respondents that Joe Biden gave them 9% inflation and caused all this. It hasn't been fixed to a satisfying level in a year, so unless things change very quickly, voters seem poised to throw the bums out and turn the keys over to the very lunatics that put them into financial straits in the first place.
But do you think any of them who are struggling in this current economy have compassion for the hardship that Michelle Obama has faced after being constrained by living in the White House for eight years? The victimhood she has had to endure is really giving off the millionaire blues kind of vibe, isn't it?
The Obamas' net worth today is north of $70 million. Their primary residence is a nine-bedroom, eight-and-a-half bath 8,200 square foot mansion in Washington, D.C.'s most exclusive neighborhood, Kalorama. They bought it in 2017 for a little over $8 million dollars.
But since nobody can live in D.C. year-round, they purchased a second home. In Martha's Vineyard. 29 acres of oceanfront land, with a 7,000 square foot cottage on it. It's downsizing, I know. It still has eight-and-a-half baths, but alas, it only has seven bedrooms. They bought that for $11.75 million.
Now you can take Michelle out of Chicago, but you can't take Chicago out of Michelle, so they have a third place. Six bedrooms, five-and-a-half baths, 6,500 square feet in Kenwood, costing $1.65 million.
And you can take Barack out of Hawaii, but you can't take Hawaii out of Barack, so they popped another $9 million for three acres of oceanfront land, tore down the existing building, and are just about done constructing an 8,500 square foot main residence, with two other sizeable guest houses, two pools, and a seawall to keep the riffraff out.
Remember. She was constrained. Weren't we supposed to be concerned about housing affordability?
The Obamas both have multiple million-dollar-plus book deals, and together, they landed a $60 million Netflix contract to produce content.
Both Obamas earn mid-to-high six figures a throw for speeches they give, with Michelle having earned $750,000 for an hour-long speech on DEI in 2023, given to the Bits and Pretzels Founders Festival in Munich.
It's as though she were literally shackled, I tell you.
Maybe this is all just part of the presentation of the new Democratic populism. Zohran Mamdani just won an election in New York City as a communist by hugging it out with the ultimate oligarch, Alex Soros.
Bernie Sanders goes on the oligarch speaking tour like Counting Crows does the fair circuit, except he travels by private jet in order to tell each stop about how much the struggle is real.
Nancy Pelosi is about to finish off a political career longer than two Kurt Cobain lifespans, for the children, and leaving office with a stock portfolio that has outperformed the Dow Jones by 581%, and the S&P 500 by 559%. From the time she entered national politics in 1987 to now, her initial stock holdings have increased by 16,930%. Maybe Michelle is onto something by sniping at people about how hard things are for her. It makes her more relatable.
Say what you want about Donald Trump. And trust me - the left, and Never Trump, Inc. do without reservation. But he does love this country and is appreciative of everything it has afforded him and his family. It animates everything he does. The left calls his rhetoric an act, but that's just late-stage TDS talking.
Compare that to Michelle Obama, who infamously said she was never proud to be an American until after her husband won the presidency. Sure seems like she's back to not being very proud again.
Maybe she never truly was, being so constrained and all.
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