Jaws Hit the Floor Over What Barack Obama Admitted on Camera About Women Grabbing His Butt While President

September 10, 2026 Cat2, The Media
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Michelle Obama built her entire political brand on "when they go low, we go high."

Now there's a video of her husband laughing about women grabbing him while he was a sitting president.

And jaws hit the floor over what Barack Obama admitted on camera about women grabbing his butt while President.

Obama Said It Himself on Camera

The clip is from Barack Obama's October 2024 appearance on The Pivot Podcast with former NFL players Ryan Clark, Channing Crowder, and Fred Taylor.

Crowder asked whether women ever "hollered" at him – now that he was, in Crowder's words, "President Good-Looking Dude."

“Do women be hollering at you and stuff?” Crowder said. “Like, because of the fact that you a good-looking dude, but now you’re president, good-looking dude.”

Obama laughed and answered directly.

“So, first of all, I don’t know if Michelle’s gonna be watching this, so I’m ‘gon, I’m gonna. . .,” he said.

“I’m scared of Michelle,” Crowder interrupted. “Yeah, you should be,” Obama chuckled.

He then answered the question.

"There are times where women have acted in somewhat inappropriate ways," Obama said on camera. "There are pictures on the internet of women grabbing my butt – and I was president at the time."

When asked why Secret Service didn't intervene, Obama had an explanation ready.

"It's like old ladies and stuff," he said. "So I mean, they're not gonna wrestle them down on the ground."

The media covered it accordingly – warm chuckles, headlines about how grounded and humble Barack is for laughing it off.

Nobody called it a pattern of entitlement.

Nobody asked whether the office deserved more dignity than that.

This Is the Same Media That Called One Word Disqualifying

The same press corps gave Obama's butt-grab story a collective laugh track while spending years treating a single word from a private 2005 recording as proof of existential threat to American women.

Michelle Obama called the Access Hollywood tape "shocking and demeaning."

She said it "has shaken me to my core in a way that I cannot have predicted."

She said it forced women across America to relive their worst memories of harassment and assault.

That was one word on a hot mic from twelve years before Trump took office.

Barack Obama was a sitting president when women physically grabbed him – documented in photos, confirmed in his own words, laughed about on a national podcast.

And when NBC Bay Area covered women grabbing Obama during a San Francisco visit back in 2012, here's the headline they chose:

"San Francisco Women Get Cheeky With Barack Obama."

Cheeky?

The women who did the grabbing weren't called aggressors.

There was no national conversation about the power dynamics of touching a man without his consent.

No one suggested Obama needed to reckon with what it meant that the public felt entitled to his body.

The Standard Has Always Been Simple

One party says a word on a hot mic – disqualifying, shameful, evidence of systemic rot.

The other party gets photographed with hands on his rear end while running the country – charming, relatable, proves he was grounded enough not to "trip" on it.

That's a media protection racket – and the clip resurfacing in September 2026 is getting another round of warm coverage for the same reason it got warm coverage in 2024.

Barack Obama is a Democrat, and that's exactly what the press is there to protect.

Sources:

  • Staff, "Obama Recalls Unwanted Attention as President: 'Old Ladies' Were 'Grabbing My Butt,'" AOL News, October 2024.
  • Staff, "San Francisco Women Get Cheeky With Barack Obama," NBC Bay Area, 2012.
  • Staff, "Michelle Obama Says Trump's Comments on Women Left Her 'Shaken to My Core,'" PBS NewsHour, October 2016.
  • Staff, "Overzealous Woman Grabs Obama in Scranton, Secret Service Swarms," ABC News, November 2011.