Michelle Obama reveals whether Barack would run for president again if term rules were changed

Former First Lady Michelle Obama has delved into whether her husband’s hypothetical return to the White House should be sanctioned.

Between 2009 and 2017, Barack Obama’s US presidency was instrumental in the recovery from the Great Recession, as well as the end of the Iraq War and the assassination of September 11 terrorist Osama bin Laden (under Operation Neptune Spear).

After two terms in the Oval Office, he made way for controversial candidate Donald Trump, who restored his own presidency in 2024 after a Joe Biden-shaped gap.

His wife Michelle, who was recently forced to address divorce rumours, joined the Call Her Daddy podcast this week, where she told host Alex Cooper whether or not Barack would campaign for ultimate political power if his successor does in fact manage to change the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution, which currently stops a president from running for more than eight years.

Michelle Obama doesn't want her husband to run for president again (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)

“The future is whatever we want it to be, so if… this is all hypothetical… if Trump does change the law and runs for a third term, hypothetically… do you think your husband would consider running?” asked the podcaster.

“I hope not. I would actively work against that,” her guest replied.

Quite a bold statement, don’t you think? But Obama knows the country needs an injection of 'new energy' on a regular basis.

“We're changing and growing so fast. This is a hard job, and it requires new energy, new vision all the time. New ways of looking at the world, right? So I do believe that eight years is enough,” she argued. “People with a new set of experiences, a new set of, a new take on the world. This new generation is coming up. They travel more, they know more about the world, they're exposed in a different way. Like, I'm really, really curious about their perspectives on how to fix some of this stuff.

"Like, we don't have all the answers and that's okay. That's why we move on.”

Trump could well be challenging the 22nd Amendment in the shadows right now, having told the media last October 'we’ll see what happens' when it comes to a third campaign. He’s even gone so far as to launch wearables promoting the idea, such as his ‘Trump 2028’ caps.

This comes after a poll showed how Obama and Trump would do in a head-to-head race in 2028. The former won with a 52 percent confidence vote.

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