Overview
- In a podcast interview released Saturday with Brian Tyler Cohen, Obama said he no longer sees himself as a politician.
- He joked that Michelle Obama would divorce him if he tried to run again and noted that, while some runs might be legally possible, he has no interest.
- Obama said he and Michelle plan to focus on inspiring and guiding younger people into public life.
- He argued that meaningful change should be led by people in their 20s and 30s who will reshape U.S. institutions.
- Addressing a recent video on President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account that depicted the Obamas as monkeys, he called such behavior troubling; the post was removed and the White House said it was a staff error.