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Michelle Obama’s brother Craig Robinson revealed on their IMO podcast that he didn’t initially believe her relationship with Barack Obama would last.

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Why Michelle Obama’s Brother Craig Robinson Didn’t Think Barack Obama Relationship Would Last
Michelle Obama’s brother Craig Robinson revealed on their IMO podcast that he didn’t initially believe her relationship with Barack Obama would last.

By MEGAN RUBENSTEIN
APR 17, 2025 1:48 AM| UPDATED APR 17, 2025 3:08 PMTAGS
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In Craig Robinson’s opinion, Barack Obama was just another one of his sister Michelle Obama’s boyfriends.

The 62-year-old revealed that when he first learned that Michelle was dating his future brother-in-law, he suspected the relationship would only “last a month.”

“So Mich starts to date Barack, and we don’t know who this guy is, we’re just like, ‘Barack? Who’s got a name like Barack?’ he joked on the April 16 episode of their IMO podcast. “And I’m thinking it’s gonna last a month.”

However, a game of basketball helped Barack get his stamp of approval.

“After we met him and she had been dating him for a little while she said, ‘Would you mind, Craig, taking him to play?'” Craig recalled of his sister, who was 25 when she met the former president. “And at first I said, ‘No way, I’m not going to do your dirty work for you. If he turns out to be a bad dude, I’m not going to be the one to say.”

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Why Michelle Obama’s Brother Craig Robinson Didn’t Think Barack Obama Relationship Would Last
Michelle Obama’s brother Craig Robinson revealed on their IMO podcast that he didn’t initially believe her relationship with Barack Obama would last.

By MEGAN RUBENSTEIN
APR 17, 2025 1:48 AM| UPDATED APR 17, 2025 3:08 PMTAGS
Watch: Why Michelle Obama’s Brother Craig Robinson Didn’t Think Her Relationship With Barack Would Last

In Craig Robinson’s opinion, Barack Obama was just another one of his sister Michelle Obama’s boyfriends.

The 62-year-old revealed that when he first learned that Michelle was dating his future brother-in-law, he suspected the relationship would only “last a month.”

“So Mich starts to date Barack, and we don’t know who this guy is, we’re just like, ‘Barack? Who’s got a name like Barack?’ he joked on the April 16 episode of their IMO podcast. “And I’m thinking it’s gonna last a month.”

However, a game of basketball helped Barack get his stamp of approval.

“After we met him and she had been dating him for a little while she said, ‘Would you mind, Craig, taking him to play?'” Craig recalled of his sister, who was 25 when she met the former president. “And at first I said, ‘No way, I’m not going to do your dirty work for you. If he turns out to be a bad dude, I’m not going to be the one to say.”

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In the end, Craig, 62, did take to the court with his now brother-in-law, who was 28 at the time. And the podcast host shared that they “had a great time playing.”

“This is what I learned,” Craig continued. “Aside from the fact that he is tremendously left-handed so he couldn’t go right at all, most importantly, he was a team player, right? He fit in with the people.”

He added, “So I was able to report back to you that everything was fine and the rest was history.”

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All these years later, the couple is still going strong—even in the midst of divorce rumors that have circulated due to Michelle missing a string of high-profile events.

“They couldn’t even fathom that I was making a choice for myself that they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing,” Michelle said of the rumors during after she didn’t attend Jimmy Carter’s funeral alongside her husband on the April 9 episode of the Work in Progress with Sophia Bush podcast. “This couldn’t be a grown woman just making a set of decisions for herself, right?”

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