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On January 20, 2017, the world watched as Donald Trump assumed the most important political office in the world, while Barack Obama, the first African-American president that Americans had, left the White House with his family.
Although, his path to retirement was not exactly as he wanted, as he planned to hand over the command to Hillary Clinton, He left the White House directly to stay 3 years away from politics, although with sporadic public appearances, to support his wife, Michelle Obama, participate in conferences or luxury vacations.
However, he ceased to be the “commander of the sofa” as he pointed out at his last dinner with the White House correspondents and returned in glory and majesty. First, participating in the campaign for the presidency of Joe biden, his former vice president whom he considers a brother and now, launching his new memoirs in the book “A promised land”.
The dream retirement
10 days of vacation in the British Virgin Islands, specifically on Necker Island, owned by Richard Branson, was the first thing Barack Obama did once he left the White House.
Accompanied by his wife Michelle Obama and Branson, who did not hesitate to register the moment on his social networks, the president relaxed on a vacation that would continue in his native Hawaii, Tetiaroa Island, in Polynesia, the home of the mythical Marlon Brando and a luxury yacht in which they were accompanied by Bruce Springsteen, Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hanks in which they toured Vanilla Island, Le Taha’s Island and Bora Bora, highlights La Vanguardia.
But not only that, they also visited the Tuscany, Bali, Scotland and Montreal, where he took advantage of having dinner with the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. An eternal vacation after 8 years as the “Commander in Chief” of the United States.
A year later, he talked about his days as a tourist and what it was like to leave office in an extensive interview with David Letterman, the presenter who with this conversation launched his show on Netflix: “My next guest needs no introduction with David Letterman” (No need introduction with David Letterman).
Obama jokingly reviewed his days in the White House, with the most tense moments that he had to live as the greatest economic crisis at the beginning of his mandate or the two wars in which he was, but also how he changed when he became an “ex President”.
“I do not miss the privileges of the presidency, I enjoy walking around the house finding out how the coffee maker works and fighting with Michelle for a place in the closet” highlighted Barack, who later added that upon leaving office he does not feel that what he perceived is relief, but that “More than anything I felt that I had run the race and completed the goal, I was proud of the work that was done and I was ready for the next stage”.
If he highlighted that he now lived in a kind of “slow motion” pointing out that things were no longer as fast as before, when his team reacted immediately to the urgency of most of the issues they saw, whereas now, for everything he could Take time.
Make your stay in the White House profitable
At 59 years old, Barack Obama is a millionaire man, his importance in history brought him a fortune estimated by GoBankingRates in $ 40 million, very far from the 1.3 million dollars that he declared when entering the oval office, El País reported.
A part of the fortune was obtained during the 8 years of work for the Americans, the other part has been generated in his period of “retirement” that he has taken advantage of to give lectures, write and participate in million-dollar projects such as the creation of his production company, Higher Ground.
Together with Michelle they are already a brand that makes everything it touches profitable and an example is the production company they created. Through her they signed a millionaire agreement with Netflix to produce original documentaries, series and films, focused on issues such as race, class, education, democracy, children or health.
The results of the agreement were immediately successful and were manifested in an Oscar, the most coveted award in Hollywood, Infobae noted.
Together with the streaming company they produced the documentary “American Factory” exploring worker rights, globalization, and job automation through an auto glass factory in Ohio. The piece, directed by Steven Bognar Y Julia Reichert, won the Oscar for “Best Documentary Feature Film.”
Telling such a complex and moving story about the human consequences of a painful economic change. I am grateful to see two talented and extremely good people take home the Oscars for the first premiere of Higher Ground. “, Barack Obama posted on Twitter, congratulating the winners.
We go back to politics
Joe Biden accompanied him as his Vice President during his 8 years in the White House and Barack did not hesitate to accompany him in the final stretch of his campaign for the presidency of the United States. A rally in Philadelphia was the scene where Obama returned to public life to ask for the vote and he did it with force by directly attacking Donald Trump.
“What is your closing argument? That people are too focused on covid? “ adding: He said this at one of his rallies. ‘Covid, covid, covid’, he has complained. He is jealous of the media coverage of the covid ”. Biden’s friend pointed out, this time in Orlando.
In the framework of the campaign, we saw again a close and always charismatic Barack, who went viral worldwide after he scored a triple shot on a basketball court, during a ceremony in Flint, located in the state of Michigan.
“That’s what I do!” (That’s what I do!) He yelled in a winning attitude, as he tried to slip his mask to be heard in a better way and Joe Biden celebrated his feat.
Fire your shot. https://t.co/XdZz4dh82T pic.twitter.com/elpBmzu6hV
– Barack Obama (@BarackObama) October 31, 2020
Once Joe Biden was declared the winner by the American media, Obama celebrated it through his social networks. “I couldn’t be more proud to congratulate our next President, Joe Biden, and our next First Lady, Jill Biden.”, wrote.
In addition, he took the moment to congratulate Kamala Harris, who will become the first female vice president in US history.
“A promised land”
Just when the holiday sales start, Barack released the first book of his new memoirs, entitled “A Promised Land” in which he recounted his 8 years as president of the United States.
The writing process was not without anecdotes. While he was in negotiations with the publishers for the publication of his book, his representative called him and said: Publishers are very anxious. We must meet immediately, we must act quickly as there is a lot of demand ” to which he replied: “Morning?” and in response he received “No, it will take two weeks to organize everything” he told David Letterman, remembering what it’s not like to have everything right away, like when he ran America.
Another anecdote that he lived in the process was not told by him, but by the actress Margot robbie, who was invited to the Ellen Degeneres program and recounted the moment she met the presenter and the president.
The actress said that while she was on her honeymoon in an exclusive hotel in Tahiti it was raining, so she decided to go with her husband, Tom Ackeley, to the gym, noting that he had chosen shorts to exercise that were very short, So much so that it revealed more than she wanted.
Robbié mentioned that even though she scolded her husband, he mentioned “Let’s go! Who are we going to meet? ” to which she said “yes, you’re right” and then they walked into the gym to meet face to face with Degeneres, his wife, Portia di Rossi and President Barack Obama himself, a close friend of the comedian and who at that time was writing her book.
The actress pointed out that they took a class that involved stretching that became an embarrassing situation for both of them, however, She praised how kind the former president had been to her, noting that she was a talented actress and that they had been talking about her work, something that shocked Margot.
The publication, which is Obama’s third autobiography, went on sale this Tuesday, November 17 in 25 languages, simultaneously and as detailed by ABC, the president would have received an advance of 65 million dollars for his memoirs.
In addition, he accompanied the publication with a playlist of the same name as the publication, composed of the songs of Stevie Wonder, Beyoncé, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin among other greats who musically accompanied Obama’s passage through Washington.
In 768 pages, the president recounts his two periods and the critical moments that he lived as Commander in Chief. He even commented on a situation he experienced while participating in a dinner with President Sebastián Piñera in March 2011.
As T13 noted, Barack was listening to President Piñera when his shoulder was touched and his security adviser, Tom Donilon, told him that a US fighter plane crashed in Libya. Despite this, he continued to enjoy dinner with Chilean wine and the company of the President and the first lady, Cecilia Morel, and later he learned that the pilots were fine.
“When someone asks me to describe what it feels like to be president of the United States, I often think of that interval of time in which I spent sitting helplessly at the state dinner in Chile, contemplating the razor’s edge between perceived success and the potential catastrophe “, reported in his memoirs Obama, who has not visited the country again.
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