Obama confesses Trump has caused ‘tension’ in his marriage after Michelle issues dramatic plea

Barack Obama gave a rare, candid look at his marriage, and it looks like Donald Trump is causing trouble at home.

The 64-year-old former President admitted in an interview that Michelle asked him to step away from public life so the couple could enjoy their later years together.

Problem? He continues to be drawn into the politics of the day.

The former commander in chief said Trump’s return to the White House is why he can’t just walk away, and that his inability to do so has become a source of friction within the country.

“This creates real tension in our house and frustrates it,” Obama told The New Yorker. ‘I’m more forgiving about it, I understand why people feel that way.’

He also pushed back against critics who said he wasn’t doing enough, arguing that his continued involvement was unprecedented. ‘No other former president has been the party’s primary deputy for four election cycles after leaving office,’ he said.

As for the public clamoring for him to do more, Obama was philosophical: ‘It’s a good sign that people want me to do more.’

Obama was only 47 when he entered the White House and 55 when he left; He was younger than most of his predecessors and remains one of the most active former presidents in modern memory.

The former president offered a rare glimpse into his marriage to Michelle

Just last month, Obama was the highest-profile national figure to support the Virginia amendment that would change the state’s congressional maps and give Democrats some GOP-controlled seats.

He also recently appeared with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a visit to a child care center.

Obama sent a group of children into fits of giggles as he performed for them during a visit to a child care center in New York in April.

He and Mayor Mamdani read to preschoolers and sang songs together during the visit, and did not accept questions after their visit.

While at Learning Through Play Kindergarten, Obama and Mamdani read Alone and Together to children and sang along to The Wheels on the Bus.

After sitting on chairs during the reading, the two sat on the floor to act out the main theme in the book.

“Remember what the book says, together we are stronger,” Obama told the children.

‘So you’re all going to have to help me up,’ the former president continued, amid screams and laughter from the younger attendees, and added, ‘Because I’m old.’

Obama pretends to try to stand as children lift him up during his visit to Learning Through Play Pre-K in New York City on April 18

The former president was there with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and the pair sang a song

Obama served as president from 2009 to 2017, long before most of the crowd were born.

The 44th president also offered to be a sounding board for Mamdani, 34, whose star power, youth and progressive agenda have made him a standout in Democratic politics, even drawing similarities to Obama’s own political rise.

Other, more mainstream Democrats also appear to have great respect for the former president.

The Democratic Party disparaged their most recent president, Joe Biden, in his Easter Sunday message this year.

Last month, they posted a photo of the back of Obama’s head with the Easter Bunny, along with the caption ‘Better times in the White House’.

The two looked at the Washington Monument between them in the photo, taken a decade ago during Obama’s presidency.

Joe Biden served as Obama’s vice president and becomes president himself starting in 2021, but the Democratic Party’s messages apparently went unheeded

Democrats notably missed mentioning Biden in last month’s ‘better times’ post on X

But many noticed that Democrats apparently forgot to praise their most recent leader, Biden, in the Oval Office.

The Democrats’ account

Obama is also poised to leave another lasting mark on the United States later this year, with the opening of his presidential headquarters and library in Chicago in June.