Barack Obama Jokes That He’s Scared of His Daughter Sasha

Former president Barack Obama is currently on the promotional circuit for his new memoir, A Promised Land, and his latest stop was a virtual interview with Jimmy Kimmel on November 19. You can watch the 25-minute interview in full on YouTube, below. It’s chock-full of funny anecdotes, including Obama’s confession that he’s “scared” of his 19-year-old daughter, Sasha. 

“The reason is because Sasha is a mini Michelle, and I’m afraid of Michelle,” he told Kimmel, explaining that his youngest daughter has the “the same look and the same attitude” as his wife, Michelle Obama. 

Other funny stories revealed: that Obama is frequently poked fun at by his family. “I’m generally the brunt of jokes in my house,” he said. Watch this all for yourself, below. 

Barack Obama’s A Promised Land memoir is now out, and it’s a whopping 768 pages. He divulges so much in it, including how the presidency took a toll on his marriage. 

“And yet, despite Michelle’s success and popularity, I continued to sense an undercurrent of tension in her, subtle but constant, like the faint thrum of a hidden machine,” he writes in the book, according to CNN. “It was as if, confined as we were within the walls of the White House, all her previous sources of frustration became more concentrated, more vivid, whether it was my round-the-clock absorption with work, or the way politics exposed our family to scrutiny and attacks, or the tendency of even friends and family members to treat her role as secondary in importance.

“Lying next to Michelle in the dark,” he continues. “I’d think about those days when everything between us felt lighter, when her smile was more constant and our love less encumbered, and my heart would suddenly tighten at the thought that those days might not return.”

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Originally Appeared on Glamour