Michelle Obama’s laundry list of complaints about being a wife and mother just got longer.
The former first lady used the latest episode of her IMO (a.k.a. in my opinion) podcast with her brother Craig Robinson to explain why her kids moving out of the house was basically the best thing that has ever happened to her and how she doesn’t miss much – if anything at all – about their younger years.
On Monday’s show, Megyn was joined by Jesse Kelly, host of I’m Right, to discuss Obama’s latest cringe-worthy revelation and what her pattern of oversharing reveals.
The Latest Overshare
Last week, Obama and brother Craig welcomed Jon Stewart to the table for a conversation “on politics, anxiety, and finding hope in the chaos.” But when it came to talking about parenthood, the mother of two seemed to shock even Stewart with her negativity.
Stewart, who has two children with his wife Tracey, was talking about what it’s like now that he is an empty-nester. He mentioned how things shift without the “incredible… energy and excitement” of kids being around, which is something Obama could not seem to relate to.
“I don’t miss it. I don’t,” she said as a demonstrative Stewart let out a hearty laugh and Robinson sat quietly.
“I’m going to see them tonight for dinner. I love them, but, you know, Barack cried when they went to college. I was like, bye little… Goodbye,” she continued. “Now, Friday nights aren’t wrecked with terror and fear about where are you? Where are you?!”
Stewart claimed he understood, as she waxed on about daughters Malia, 28, and Sasha, 25, flying the coop. “I love their emancipation and growth,” Obama added before the comedian interjected to say how he misses “the job” of being a parent.
“Don’t you miss the job,” Stewart inquired.
“No,” Obama replied emphatically.
“Like, it gave a meaning and like pattern to my life,” Stewart shared.
“I’m good,” the first lady responded without missing a beat.
“It gave, like, a meaning and a pattern to my life,” he explained.
Once again, Obama declared “I’m good” as she gestured around the room to demonstrate all “the meaning” she now has in her life with her girls out of the house.
At that point, Robinson let Stewart in on the secret: “She’s different,” he said of his sister, before acknowledging that he too loves his kids’ schedule.
That’s when Obama reinserted herself into the conversation. “I love my schedule. I have a great schedule, and it’s all mine,” she said before adding: “But I think fathers can be that way because you weren’t there… You missed a lot of it.”
The Pattern
In case you’ve missed Megyn’s past coverage of Obama’s absurd takes, this is far from the first time she has spoken ill of mothering and marriage. She regularly trashes her husband and daughters for a whole host of petty reasons to the point where Megyn and Maureen Callahan spoofed her in a parody called Megyn O. Watch:
That is what makes these most recent comments anything but surprising. “She is not missing the experience of actively mothering her children, which comes as really not that big a surprise. If you listen to Michelle Obama over the years, she has almost uniformly negative comments to make about being a mother and being a wife. She did not enjoy it in any way, shape, or form,” Megyn noted.
“I genuinely think Michelle Obama did not enjoy her time as an active mother, and she did not enjoy her time as an active wife, and she did not enjoy her time as first lady,” Megyn posited. “And the reason she didn’t enjoy any of those things is because she is a miserable person.”
Kelly agreed. “In a way, I almost feel a little bit bad for her… Imagine if you get unbelievable blessings on this earth, and you’re just miserable the entire time. What a waste of a wonderful life that would be,” he lamented.
“Whether you’re rich or poor, if you never find anything to smile about, if you never look around and think this is wonderful,” Kelly added. “Do you ever remember a time of that woman seeming genuinely full of joy and happiness? I never remember. She’s always mad, always missable, always offended. Always. It’s a constant state of affairs.”
That, in turn, gives him at least a shred of sympathy for the former president, who is on the receiving end of his wife’s barbs even more than his kids. “I can’t stand Barack Obama. I think he really did a lot to destroy the United States of America. [But] imagine being stuck, tethered to that thing for the rest of your life,” Kelly said.
“I’ll tell you what… I’d be on the PGA tour because I’d spend so much time on the golf course. I’d be like, well, you know, honey, I have a business meeting in Saudi Arabia. I’ll be back in a couple weeks. I would be gone forever. You’d never see me,” he quipped.
‘Stone-Hearted Sociopath’
At this point, Megyn wondered what is keeping the Obamas together. “He’s married to a stone-hearted sociopath who clearly felt almost nothing… The children are grown, get a divorce,” she suggested.
“Barack Obama would have no trouble finding someone to actually love him, and root for him, and have stars in her eyes for him. No trouble whatsoever,” Megyn concluded. “They should get a divorce… She’s not capable of loving him, and how can he love just the steaming heap of nastiness?”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Kelly by tuning in to episode 1,387 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Channel (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.