President Obama’s recent trip to Kenya and Ethiopia provided him with a total flight time of 29 hours at the cost of $5, 983,773 tax dollars, according to the National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF).
While President Barack Obama was in Kenya on Saturday, First Lady Michelle Obama addressed the inspirational and joyful opening of the Special Olympics in Los Angeles–atoning, perhaps, for one of the president’s most notorious gaffes.
“My rapping skills are terrible, that’s one thing I can’t do is rap,” he said to the group, as he prepared to give the microphone back to rapper Wale, who performed at the event. “I like rap, but cannot rap,” Obama said.
The first photos from Southside with You, the upcoming film about President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama’s first date, were released online Tuesday.
“Long before the United States was even an idea, your ancestors were harvesting the crops that would feed the world for centuries to come,” Michelle Obama tells Native Americans. “Today on issues like conservation and climate change we are finally beginning to embrace the wisdom of your ancestors,” she said. “So make no mistake about it, your customs, your values, your discoveries, are at the heart of the American story.”
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted an Independence Day Bruno Mars concert in honor of U.S. military members and their families at the White House on Saturday.
“Effective today, guests are now welcome to take photos throughout the White House tour route and keep those memories for a lifetime,” the White House announced this morning. “Visitors are also encouraged to share their experience using the hashtag #WhiteHouseTour.”
On Wednesday evening, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed a troop of Girl Scouts on the White House lawn to pitch their tents for a camping event.
First lady Michelle Obama will travel to Los Angeles next month to kick off the Special Olympics World Games, organizers announced Thursday.
Friday at the U.S. Army Garrison Vicenza in northern Italy, speaking for her daughters, first lady Michelle Obama wished her husband a happy Fathers Day saying, “We miss you. We hope your not missing us too much.” Considering last October,
As part of her European tour to promote “Let’s Move,” First Lady Michelle Obama boasted during a visit to Milan that American school children were eating better, thanks to her fight against obesity.
Michelle Obama pointed out that in spite of everything she has done on the issue, “not a single country has reversed these obesity trends in a lasting way.”
She suggested that while boys and men were important, it was crucial for them to talk about the lack of education for girls around the world. “You know our sons are important, we love men, we all do, they’re good, they’re useful,” she said.
Speaking to students in the United Kingdom, First Lady Michelle Obama highlighted her struggles growing up in the South Side of Chicago.
U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama travelled to the United Kingdom today, choosing to give a speech on female empowerment while surrounded by hijab-clad girls in the ethnically “diverse” London borough of Tower Hamlets. But the Commercial Road in Tower Hamlets, from
LONDON, United Kingdom – Michelle Obama came to the East End of London today and visited a girls’ school. In a conspicuous display of moral vanity, she announced her aim was to promote a campaign for girls’ education. As if
Dr. Alveda King writes that liberal race-baiting serves only to create unrest as it overlooks – for the purpose of maintaining a mindset of victimization — the true nature of African Americans, who have survived overwhelming oppression “from first slavery and then segregation and racism.”
Tuesday at Martin Luther King Jr. Preparatory High School in Chicago, IL, First Lady Michelle Obama delivered the commencement address for the graduating class telling them because of the “struggles” that come with growing up on the south side of
During the White House Press briefing yesterday, one reporter brought up the news that Press Secretary Josh Earnest’s predecessor at the podium Robert Gibbs had just taken a job with fast-food giant McDonald’s.
During commencement exercises at a South Side Chicago high school, First Lady Michelle Obama encouraged students to work every day to change the narrative that comes out of troubled black communities.
First Lady Michelle Obama plans to travel to the United Kingdom and Italy in June, visiting the cities of London, Milan, and Vicenza, according to the office of the First Lady.
The White House hug feature includes 28 photos of Michelle Obama hugging people, including TV celebrities such as Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey. Hugs, she explains, allow her to connect with people at the same level, without letting them be intimidated by her position in the White House.
In a personal speech to graduates of Oberlin college, First Lady Michelle Obama encouraged college graduates to “shape the revolutions of your time” and not be afraid of critics who might downplay their efforts.
Monday at Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH, first lady Michelle Obama took great pride in the “change these past six years” of her husband’s administration when speaking to graduating students. “Think about how just 10 years ago gay marriage was legal in
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has published an article in the latest issue of its magazine, Dabiq, by jihadi bride Umm Summayyah, estimating that First Lady Michelle Obama is only worth $40 on the terrorist group’s slave market. Summayyah also defends the rape of thousands of Yazidi females.
The indignities continue to pile on for disgraced NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. Back in January, before his serial fabrications were uncovered, and he was suspended for 6 months, Williams hosted an awards ceremony to honor military veterans and
After trolling everyone on Twitter to get them to reveal their workout routines, Michelle Obama outshines them all, releasing a supercharged workout video highlighting her own five exercises to stay fit.
Monday on the syndicated program “Democracy Now!” consumer advocate and author Ralph Nader said despite several attempts, former community organizer President Barack Obama is refusing to meet with volunteer, non-profit organizations. Nader described his unanswered letters to the White House
To satisfy federal disclosure laws, the President and First Lady reported their net worth last week — revealing that they are worth almost $7 million.
President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, held assets last year that were worth roughly $1.9 million to $6.9 million, according to their required financial disclosure reports.
For some reason, Rasmussen thought it worthwhile to poll Americans on whether or not Michelle Obama should challenge Hillary for the Democratic nomination.
On Monday’s broadcast of “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, conservative commentator Ann Coulter reacted to first lady Michelle Obama’s remarks at Tuskegee University in Alabama over the weekend, which Obama said as being the first black first lady she
With less than two years left in the White House, Michelle Obama is taking time to respond to her critics, accusing them of treating her differently because she is the first African-American First Lady.
This weekend while addressing the 2015 graduation class of Tuskegee University, first lady Michelle Obama said as the first African-American first lady, she has had to deal with “questions and speculations, conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others.”
In December, a romantic biopic about the life of President Barack Obama prior to his life in national politics was announced, with a note that a search for a suitable actor to play a young future president was underway. According to Deadline, the search is over.
During a Take-our-daughters-and-sons-to-work Day event in the East Room of the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama does a little name-dropping. The children were suitably impressed.
“Michelle would point out First Ladies get paid nothing, so there’s clearly not equal pay at the White House when it comes to her and me,” President Obama quipped during a stop in South Carolina.
April 14 marks the one-year anniversary of the Boko Haram kidnapping of almost 300 young female Christians in Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. The terrorist group only released 59 girls in the past year– most accidentally. Witnesses tell BBC that groups of those remaining missing have been spotted.
After the mysterious departure of the White House florist, two more staffers under First Lady Michelle Obama have decided to call it quits at the East Wing.
First Lady Michelle Obama will appear on the May cover of Glamour magazine, alongside actresses Sarah Jessica Parker and Kerry Washington for a special feature to support America’s veterans ahead of Memorial Day.
