Barack Obama’s Post with Michelle at the DNC Goes Viral

Former President Barack Obama’s social media post featuring an image of himself and former first lady Michelle Obama at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) has gone viral.
The Obamas headlined day two of the DNC in Chicago on Tuesday, with both delivering speeches to wrap up the evening’s festivities. On Wednesday afternoon, the former president took to X, formerly Twitter, to share an image of the couple on stage and promote the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
“We’re fired up and ready to go! Let’s do all we can to elect @KamalaHarris and@Tim_Walz. Join us: http://KamalaHarris.com,” Obama wrote in the post, which had more than 7 million views in less than two hours after being shared.
Newsweek reached out for comment to the office of Barack and Michelle Obama via online press contact form on Wednesday.
Michelle Obama spoke before her husband at the DNC on Tuesday, with the former first lady beginning her speech by announcing that “hope is making a comeback” before warning Democrats that former President Donald Trump could still win the election.
“Yes, Kamala and Tim are doing great now,” she said. “But remember there are still so many people who are desperate for a different outcome, who are ready to question and criticize every move Kamala makes, who are eager to spread those lies who don’t want to vote for a woman.”
The former first lady, who famously urged Democrats to “go high” when Republican attacks go “low” during the 2016 DNC, then focused on Trump, ripping him for benefitting from “the affirmative action of generational wealth” and accusing him of racist attacks against her husband and herself.
“For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us,” Michelle Obama said. “His limited, narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hard-working, highly educated, successful people who happened to be Black.”
Barack Obama also went on the offensive against Trump while closing out the night, arguing that his successor had “not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago.
“It has been a constant stream of gripes and grievances,” Obama said. “It has been getting worse now that he is afraid of losing to Kamala. The childish nicknames and crazy conspiracy theories.”
“[And] this weird obsession with crowd sizes,” he added, before gesturing with his hands as if to indicate something small—a jab that quickly went viral.
At one point, after the crowd booed when Obama accused Trump of killing a bipartisan border security bill this year to boost his election bid, the former two-term president urged people to vote for Harris instead of booing.
While it was not immediately clear when or where the Obamas might campaign in person on behalf of the Harris-Walz ticket in the months remaining until November 5, the former first couple could prove to be valuable assets.
The vice president has already gotten off to a blistering start just one month since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her on July 21, reversing Trump’s lead in the polls and reportedly raising an unprecedented $500 million in four weeks.