Michelle Obama launches podcast on Spotify to debut July 29

Michelle’s fireside chats: Former First Lady to launch her own podcast with Spotify at the end of the month featuring chats with Conan O’Brien and former White House adviser Valerie Jarrett Michelle Obama is launching a podcast focused on meaningful relationships that will debut on July 29 on Spotify The ‘Michelle Obama Podcast’ is the … Read more

Mitt Romney blasts Trump after he commutes the prison sentence of Roger Stone

Mitt Romney has slammed Donald Trump for commuting the sentence of his close friend Roger Stone just days before he was scheduled to enter federal prison.  The Republican senator – who has been a vocal critic of the President on previous occasions – posted a savage rebuke to Twitter on Saturday morning, which read: ‘Unprecedented, … Read more

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Cashing in will carry a heavy price for Meghan and Harry

Harry and Meghan have decided to make a living by singing for their supper. They’ve signed up to the top U.S. speaking bureau, the Harry Walker agency, which has ex-presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton on its books as well as Meghan’s friend Serena Williams. It has reportedly secured its top clients up to $1 … Read more

Barack Obama’s former protocol chief was scolded for trying to hold the Queen’s bag

Barack Obama’s former Chief of Protocol has revealed the rather dramatic lengths the Queen’s staff go to protect her privacy – and her signature handbag.    Capricia Penavic Marshall, who worked for former President Obama from 2009 to 2013, advising him on all matters of national and international diplomatic protocol, recalled to People the embarrassing moment … Read more

Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice blasts Trump administration as ‘racist to the core’

Barack Obama’s national security adviser blasted the Trump administration as ‘racist to its core’ and said that electing Joe Biden as president was vital in order to ‘remove Donald Trump and consign those who supported him in the Senate to the trash heap of history.’ Susan Rice, who has been mentioned in recent weeks as … Read more

Supreme Court rules Donald Trump CANNOT end DACA program

President Donald Trump erupted in fury Thursday after the Supreme Court dealt yet another blow to his efforts to undo Obama administration policies through regulation – comparing the rulings to ‘shotgun blasts’ at conservatives. The president used the charged language after the court ruled 5-4 that his administration’s justification for ending the DACA program for … Read more

Barack Obama joins Beyonce on YouTube for Dear Class of 2020

President Barack Obama said in a commencement speech that the nationwide protests following the recent deaths of unarmed black women and men including George Floyd were fueled from ‘decades worth of anguish, frustration, over unequal treatment and a failure to perform police practices’. Obama along with his wife and former first lady, Michelle, delivered speeches … Read more

Obama delivers message to people of color: ‘Your lives matter, your dreams matter’

‘The events in our country are as profound as anything I’ve ever seen in my lifetime’: Barack Obama praises peaceful protests, calls on mayors to act on police brutality and tells young people of color ‘your lives matter, your dreams matter’ during his address to the nation President Obama addressed the country in a virtual … Read more

Michelle Obama says she is ‘pained’ and ‘exhausted’ by George Floyd’s killing

Michelle Obama responds to the killing of George Floyd saying she is ‘exhausted’ by the racist attacks on black people while calling on white people to do the ‘uncomfortable work of rooting it out’ Michelle Obama responded to George Floyd’s death in an Instagram post   The former first lady said she is ‘exhausted’ by the … Read more

‘This shouldn’t be “normal” in 2020 America’: Obama reacts to George Floyd’s death

Barack Obama has spoken out against the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, insisting that racially-targeted killings in the United States ‘cannot be “normal” in 2020’ and calling on Americans to work for a better future. The former president issued a statement on Twitter urging the Minnesota authorities to ‘ensure that the circumstances surrounding George Floyd’s … Read more