There was some speculation about the pair’s marriage after the former president attended Jimmy Carter’s funeral and President Donald Trump‘s inauguration solo. Rumors even stooped to Barack having an affair with actress Jennifer Aniston, which she has denied.
“I was in a deep deficit with my wife,” the former president said to Hamilton College President Steven Tepper, “so I have been trying to dig myself out of that hole by doing occasionally fun things.”
The audience at the New York college laughed at the remark, which was said in the context of Obama writing his second presidential memoir. “I am also finishing the second half of my presidential memoirs, which in case any of you feel sorry for yourself, this is like 50 term papers,”
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