Michelle Obama is terrified of “what could possibly happen” in the 2024 presidential election, she said during an interview published Monday.
The former first lady admitted her fears in response to a question from host Jay Shetty during an episode of his podcast.
“What is the thing that keeps you up at night now or what is your biggest fear now after having overcome so many?” Shetty asked Obama.
“It has less to do with me personally and more to do with the world that we’re in,” she replied.
She explained the anxieties that come along with being in the White House.
“There’s such a thing as knowing too much and when you’ve been married to the president of the United States who knows everything about everything in the world — sometimes you just wanna turn it off,” Obama, 59, said. “What keeps me up are the things that I know.”
Michelle Obama said she is “terrified” of what could happen in the 2024 election. AP
Obama said she is concerned that people are not voting and don’t realize the impact the government has on them. Jay Shetty Podcast
The attorney and author named a number of specific concerns she had including the ongoing wars, AI’s potential impact on humans and climate change.
She also said she is worried that people are voting and wondered why they aren’t.
“Those are the things that keep me up because you don’t have control over them and you wonder where are we in this, where are our hearts? What’s gonna happen in this next election?” Obama said on the podcast.
“I am terrified about what could possibly happen because our leaders matter, who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit. It affects us in ways that I think sometimes people take for granted,” she continued.
“We cannot take this democracy for granted and sometimes I worry that we do,” Obama said on an episode of the Jay Shetty Podcast. Jay Shetty Podcast
The Harvard law grad and mother of two said that a lot of people don’t realize how much the government does for its residents.
“We cannot take this democracy for granted and sometimes I worry that we do,” Obama said. “Those are the things that keep me up.”
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