Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Michelle Obama appreciation posts and messages flood Twitter after UFC nonsense

The first portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama together was unveiled recently at the lobby of the new Obama Presidential Library.


Unless you have been unconscious for the past few days (if so, luck you), you know about the crap UFC fighter Josh Hokit said about former First Lady Michelle Obama during that vile event at the White House on Sunday. 

He screamed that she was a man during his post-fight interview, bringing national attention to a disgusting slur against Obama which has traveled in right-wing circles through the years. The folks passing it along know it's not true, but apparently the Obamas - both Barack and Michelle - have a way of triggering the nerves of mediocre white Republicans and far right conservatives. They won't admit it, but the fact that a Black man and his wife served as First Couple in the White House for eight years (and did so with grace, dignity, and little if any scandal) drives them insane, so they manifest their immaturity in petty acts such as what Hokit did.

And generally speaking, Hokit's slur against Michelle Obama embraces longstanding racists tropes attacking the beauty of femininity of Black women. Obama is not the first Black woman to have had to deal with it. Just ask legendary tennis stars and sisters Venus and Serena Williams.

However, like the classy woman that she is, Michelle Obama hasn't commented on Hokit's mess, and I doubt that she will. 

Instead, she and Barack Obama unveiled their first official portrait together at the lobby of the new Obama Presidential Library:



Meanwhile though, many supporters on Twitter posted Michelle Obama appreciation messages as a way of letting the former First Lady know that she has their support and respect for what she has done to bring positive change to America. Here are a few.

 
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