Megyn Kelly Slams Barack And Michelle Obama's 33-Year Marriage
On Saturday's episode of her SiriusXM radio show, Kelly called Michelle Obama's recent comments on her relationship with former President Barack Obama into question.
'I think she and he married the wrong people,' Kelly said, while in conversation with Daily Mail opinion writer Maureen Callahan. 'It's amazing ― every word she says about Barack Obama is negative. I can't think of her just waxing poetic about him, complimenting, 'He's brilliant. He's a great dad. He was the greatest president,' whatever a normal wife of Barack Obama would say. Every time she opines, it's something that reflects poorly on him.'
Callahan shared similar sentiments, claiming Michelle Obama has come to view Barack Obama as a 'ball of dead weight' in the years since leaving the White House.
'I can't think of anybody I would go to for advice less than Michelle Obama,' Callahan said. 'She really doesn't know what she's talking about.'
Watch a clip from Saturday's episode of Megyn Kelly's SiriusXM radio show below.
In recent months, Barack and Michelle Obama's 33-year marriage has come under heavy scrutiny from Kelly and other conservative pundits.
Speculation that the two were headed for a divorce intensified after Michelle Obama was a no-show at President Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration, with some on the right promoting long-debunked rumors that Barack Obama was having an affair with actor Jennifer Aniston.
Appearing on Sophia Bush's 'Work in Progress' podcast earlier this month, however, Michelle Obama hinted at recent 'decisions' she'd made that might have lent those divorce rumors some credence, but didn't single out her absence at Trump's swearing-in ceremony specifically.
'They couldn't even fathom that I was making a choice for myself that they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing,' she said.
The former first lady made further assertions about long-term relationships as a whole on a recent episode of her 'IMO' podcast, co-hosted by her brother, Craig Robinson.
'If the odds were you're going to be married to your partner for 50 years and 10 of those years could be bad ... you'd sign up for it, you know?' she said. 'And that's really how it works out.'
Still, as some listeners and outlets have pointed out, Kelly's efforts to speak with authority on the state of the Obama's marriage feel particularly questionable given her own relationship history.
Since 2008, Kelly has been married to writer and podcast host Douglas Brunt, with whom she shares three children. Her first marriage to anesthesiologist Daniel Kendall ended in 2006 after about five years, and has since been annulled.
'She has very much a Type A personality ... she needed more of a Type B husband,' Kendall later quipped to the Daily Mail.
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