{"id":120617,"date":"2024-10-31T23:41:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T16:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120617"},"modified":"2024-10-31T23:41:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T16:41:44","slug":"how-barack-obama-feels-about-daughter-malia-dropping-last-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120617","title":{"rendered":"How Barack Obama feels about daughter Malia dropping last name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/10\/us-news\/barack-obama-admits-harris-campaign-doesnt-have-the-energy-his-white-house-runs-did-claims-black-men-opposed-to-her-arent-feeling-the-idea-of-hav\/\">Barack Obama<\/a> got candid on his daughter <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/02\/21\/entertainment\/malia-obama-tries-to-avoid-nepo-baby-label-by-using-stage-name-for-directorial-debut\/\">Malia dropping her last name<\/a>\u00a0in a professional setting.<\/p>\n<p>After the 26-year-old tried to distance herself from her famous moniker for her directorial debut, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/video\/watch-live-obama-springsteen-campaign-for-harris-in-philadelphia\/\">the former president<\/a>, 63, said he warned her that doing so wouldn\u2019t hide her connection to her parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer first film went to Sundance and all these fancy film festivals and she didn\u2019t use \u2018Obama\u2019 as a director on the credits,\u201d Barack revealed during\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xOl7HTXuLvk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tuesday\u2019s episode of the \u201cPivot\u201d podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Barack Obama talks Malia dropping her last name.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI was all like, \u2018You do know they\u2019ll know who you are.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained that Malia wanted audiences to watch her film, \u201cThe Heart,\u201d without thinking of her family ties.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cAnd she\u2019s all like, \u2018You know what? I want them to watch it that first time and not in any way have that association,\u2019\u201d continued Barack.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Barack Obama gets candid on his family during a recent podcast episode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Malia Ann Obama attends the \u201cThe Heart\u201d Premiere at the Short Film Program 1 during the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The father of two, who is also dad to daughter Sasha, 23,\u00a0with former first lady Michelle Obama, admitted that neither of his daughters are interested in using their family name to get ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think our daughters go out of their way to not try to leverage\u00a0that,\u201d the author said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge for us is letting us give them any help at all,\u201d Barack reiterated. \u201cI mean they\u2019re very sensitive about this stuff. They\u2019re very stubborn about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Malia Ann Obama attending the opening ceremony of the 50th American Film Festival in Deauville, France on September 6, 2024.<br \/>\n <span class=\"credit\">Reynaud Julien\/APS-Medias\/ABACA\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When the news first hit in February after she credited herself as \u201cMalia Ann\u201d for her directorial debut, critics on X shared their distain. Many were conflicted by Malia\u2019s choice to disconnect herself from Barack and Michelle, 60, after having lived in the White House during her dad\u2019s two presidential terms from 2009 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNepo baby strikes again,\u201d one hater\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DudesExMachina\/status\/1760343342033084918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted at the time<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObama\u2019s daughter trying to sneak past nepo baby discourse by not using her last name. Bro you are Obama\u2019s Daughter,\u201d another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McR1B69\/status\/1759626076454564156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Malia Obama, and her mom, First Lady Michelle Obama, share a hug onstage, after U.S. President Barack Obama delivered his farewell address to the American people at McCormick Place Convention Center.   <span class=\"credit\">NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHer \u2018entertainment career\u2019 is so funny,\u201d another person\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ivebeencollin\/status\/1759636492576825584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a>\u00a0of Malia\u2019s bio. \u201cShe interned on Girls at 15, interned with Weinstein at 18 (just months before the sh-t went down), and then writes for a Donald Glover show at like 24 without a single writing credit, and now immediately gets her first short in Sundance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/11\/news\/the-view-co-host-joy-behar-dares-former-president-donald-trump-to-come-after-her-if-reelected-try-it\/\">\u201cThe View\u201d co-host <\/a>Whoopi Goldberg\u00a0was quick to come to Malia\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently some folks online are criticizing her for it, claiming everyone knows she\u2019s an Obama, so it\u2019s pointless to hide it,\u201d the 68-year-old shared on the talk show at the time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>President Obama is joined by Michelle and Malia after his farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017.  <span class=\"credit\">Tribune News Service via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf she knows she\u2019s an Obama, why do you care? Why do you care what she calls herself?\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf she wanted to call herself Jeanette MacDonald, she has the right to! If I can be Whoopi Goldberg, she can be whoever the hell she wants to be!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/31\/entertainment\/how-barack-obama-feels-about-daughter-malia-dropping-last-name\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama got candid on his daughter Malia dropping her last name\u00a0in a professional setting. 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