As a guest at Jimmy Kimmel, Barack Obama poked his wife Michelle. Swipes against Donald Trump were meant less fondly.
What loves teasing himself. This applies to the average consumer and also applies to the former presidential couple of the USA, Barack (59) and Michelle Obama (56). The predecessor of current President Donald Trump (74) proved this as the usual charismatic guest on the late night show "Jimmy Kimmel Live". Obama talked to the presenter and comedian via video link and couldn't help but celebrate a small triumph over his wife in relation to his new book "A Promised Land".
When asked by Kimmel whether the 900,000 copies sold on the day of publication would have been enough to surpass the sales figures of Michelle's bestseller "Becoming: My Story" on the day it was released, Barack Obama replied mischievously: "It's a little bit more. But I rub not under her nose while eating. " His two daughters Malia (22) and Natasha (19) are not (yet) his readers. They would have better things to do than to do his "boring chatter and scolding".
And even President Trump should not be one of the people who will browse through "A Promised Land", as the two men find out. "It's very long. It's 701 pages. Did you make it so long to make sure that Trump would never read it?" Kimmel wants to know, to which Obama replies dryly: "I don't think it took 700 pages would be. "