Over the past few months, rumors have been swirling that Barack and Michelle Obama are divorcing, as they are allegedly living “separate lives.” In fact, the rumors have become so rampant that they’ve led to claims that the 44th President was dating the former Friends star Jennifer Aniston.
Last week, Barack escalated the divorce rumors in a big way when he attended a Los Angeles Clippers NBA game without Michelle.
Barack Attends Clippers Game
Barack attended the game with Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, a former Microsoft CEO, and his wife Connie Snyder. They all looked on as the Clippers took on the Detroit Pistons.
The crowd at the massive Intuit Dome in Inglewood went wild as Barack stood up and waved to them at one point. Barack even got a hug from Clippers head coach Tyronn Lue before the team defeated the Pistons 123-115.
Michelle is known to love attending both Hollywood and sporting events. Indeed, it seems that this would have been a great opportunity for a double date between the Obamas and the Snyders. Instead, Barack turned up to the game solo, which has only led to the Obama divorce rumors intensifying.
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Obama Divorce Rumors
The divorce rumors really got going in January, when Michelle didn’t attend either Donald Trump’s inauguration and Jimmy Carter’s funeral. Instead, Barack had to attend these official events solo. Michelle was the only living former First Lady not in attendance at each.
“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,“ Meghan McCain said on political reporter Tara Palmeri’s podcast last month. ”I’m talking about like very serious journalists telling me that they’re hearing that the Obama divorce rumors are true.”
“We’ve heard that for a long time,” replied Tara, who has long covered Washington politics. “Like I just heard that they live separate lives.”
Listen to Meghan and Tara talk more about this in the clip below.
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Jennifer Aniston Denies That She’s Dating Barack
In October of last year, Jennifer had to publicly deny rumors that she’s dating Barack. She was asked directly about these rumors in an interview with the late night host Jimmy Kimmel.
“I was not mad at it, but that is absolutely untrue,” Jennifer said of the rumors at the time.
“I’ve met him [Barack] once. I know Michelle more than him,” she then claimed, alleging that she only met the former president at a 2007 Hollywood gala before he took office.
Watch Jennifer’s full defense of this in the video below.
Hopefully for the next Clippers game, President Obama will have some company.
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