Meghan McCain and Puck’s Tara Palmeri Pour Fuel on Fire of Obama Divorce Rumors: ‘They Live Separate Lives’
Conservative commentator Meghan McCain and Puck senior political correspondent Tara Palmeri poured fuel on the fire of the rumor that former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama are getting divorced in an episode of the former’s podcast released on Wednesday.
“Fast and furious loud, I have been hearing this rumor that the Obamas are getting a divorce by reputable people. I’m not talking about TMZ. I’m not talking about Perez Hilton, although I love him, he’s my friend. I’m talking about like very serious journalists telling me that they’re hearing that the Obama divorce rumors are true,” said McCain to start the conversation. “Do you agree with that? Have you heard that? Do you think it’s just garbage?”
“Oh yeah! I mean I’ve certainly heard it for awhile, even before Michelle said she wasn’t coming to the inauguration, which also could be interpreted as like another act of resistance, which would only make her like more — if that’s really true and they stayed together — like more of a baddie in the movement when like, there really is no one in the Democratic Party who is like holding that mantle aside from AOC,” replied Palmeri.
“But yeah, we’ve heard that for a long time. Like I just heard that they live separate lives. Like, it’s just, that’s just what happened. But they are kind of like America’s sweethearts in a lot of ways and it’s, so, I think it would be devastating,” added the political reporter.
Palmeri went on to note that the former first couple had made an Instagram post celebrating their anniversary, causing McCain to interject and declare that it was “a very weird photo, though, of her.”
“And I think she’s a very pretty lady, and I was like, ‘This picture is not doing her justice for how beautiful she is.’ I would kill Ben [Domenech] if he put a picture of me looking like no makeup with that lighting on social media. I would kill him so I, that, it didn’t, for me it didn’t help the rumors and like why are you putting this like shitty picture of your wife up?” she argued.
“And you know, sometimes you see this too in a lot of celebrity divorces that are being managed. They put up the post like about their love for each other before the divorce, and it’s sort of like a way to lay the groundwork so, to make people think like, ‘Oh, well it was like amicable, and they’re good people, and they want the best for each other,’ and, you know, and it’s just like, or it’s buying time,” replied Palmeri, adding:
I also sort of wonder because like, yes, a lot of the sources that I like am hearing this through, they’re very political. Like this isn’t like TMZ crap that’s telling me about it. And I do think like there’s not a lot of goodwill around Obama right now because he essentially like orchestrated the pushing out of Joe Biden, right?
But I don’t know, it just, I can’t, listen I’m not in their bedroom with them. I am not, you know, at home with them, but it’s not really surprising that at this phase of their life, and she clearly has very little interest — she’s always hated politics! She did not really like being First Lady.
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