Barack Obama has said Donald Trump's presidency placed real strain on his marriage, admitting in a new interview that his long running role as a de facto Democratic standard bearer has created 'genuine tension' at home with Michelle Obama.
Since leaving the White House in January 2017, Obama has remained unusually prominent for a former president, repeatedly returning to the campaign trail as one of the Democratic Party's most reliable star surrogates. In an interview with The New Yorker published on Monday, 4 May, the 64 year old said Trump's time in office pulled him back into frontline politics 'more than [he] would have preferred', disrupting the quieter post presidential life he and Michelle had once imagined.
