Michelle Obama is back in the spotlight—but not for anything groundbreaking. Instead, she’s busy whining about “toxic masculinity” and grumbling about Barack’s bathroom habits on her floundering new podcast, “IMO.” If this is the Left’s idea of compelling content, no wonder Americans are tuning out in droves.
Tracee Ellis Ross says she only dates younger men because of the toxic masculinity in men her age.
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— The Art Of Dialogue (@ArtOfDialogue_) April 18, 2025
Launched by the Obamas’ media company Higher Ground, the “IMO” podcast was meant to be a cultural juggernaut. Instead, it’s struggling to make any kind of impact, let alone climb the podcast charts. And after hearing what’s actually being peddled in these episodes, it’s not hard to see why.
This week’s guest was none other than Tracee Ellis Ross—an actress and activist who, like Michelle, seems to revel in anti-masculine rhetoric. The two spent an entire segment decrying men—particularly men of their own generation—as relics of a supposedly oppressive, outdated model of masculinity.
“A lot of men my age are steeped in toxic masculinity and have been raised in a culture where there is a particular way that a relationship looks,” Ross complained. “And anything that starts to smell of that for me—I did enough of it.” Michelle, of course, laughed and nodded in agreement, further cementing the podcast’s tone as one long eye-roll at traditional values.
Here’s the irony: while they’re busy taking swipes at men and traditional relationships, they’re doing so from the comfort of media empires, multi-million dollar homes, and book deals that wouldn’t exist without the very social structure they now ridicule.
Let’s be real—Michelle Obama’s podcast isn’t failing because Americans don’t like podcasts. It’s failing because the content is insufferable. It’s elitist, out-of-touch, and loaded with the same tired progressive talking points that have already been rejected at the ballot box and in the court of public opinion.
Michelle Obama claims that Barack Obama was not “financially sound” when she married him.
Barrack was a Harvard Law graduate working as a civil rights attorney for a major Chicago law firm when they married in 1992.
My God, Michelle Obama is such a phony narcissist. pic.twitter.com/Eb4WHrLu0t— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) April 2, 2025
In another episode, Michelle griped about life in the White House. Her biggest pet peeve? That Barack Obama would make them late to events because he needed to use the bathroom right before leaving. That’s right—bathroom breaks from a former president are now headline material on her podcast. We’ve gone from “Yes We Can” to “Guess Who’s in the Bathroom Again.”
This isn’t thought leadership. It’s liberal self-parody.
The show is being pitched as some grand philosophical exploration of modern womanhood, but it plays more like a therapy session for people who’ve had everything handed to them and still manage to complain about it.
It’s not that Americans don’t want to hear from powerful women. They just don’t want to be condescended to, lectured about gender, or subjected to the grievance olympics that dominate so much of progressive media. Michelle Obama’s podcast is proof positive that victimhood culture doesn’t sell when it’s coming from the most privileged mouths in the country.
Meanwhile, real Americans—men and women alike—are raising families, working hard, and dealing with real struggles. They’re not interested in millionaires trashing their spouses, masculinity, or the institutions that hold this country together.
This podcast won’t shape the culture. It won’t spark a movement. It will, like so many other Obama-era media projects, quietly fade into irrelevance—buried beneath a pile of bad takes and even worse ratings.
