{"id":757,"date":"2026-04-30T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.space\/2026\/04\/30\/barack-obama-may-have-been-our-first-gay-president-gop-suggests-in-x-post\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:24:00","slug":"barack-obama-may-have-been-our-first-gay-president-gop-suggests-in-x-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.space\/ja\/2026\/04\/30\/barack-obama-may-have-been-our-first-gay-president-gop-suggests-in-x-post\/","title":{"rendered":"\u30d0\u30e9\u30af\u30fb\u30aa\u30d0\u30de\u306f\u7c73\u56fd\u521d\u306e\u30b2\u30a4\u5927\u7d71\u9818\u3060\u3063\u305f\u304b\u3082\u3057\u308c\u306a\u3044\u3001\u3068\u5171\u548c\u515a\u304cX\u30dd\u30b9\u30c8\u3067\u793a\u5506"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-554049\">\n<div>\n<p><span><span>\u8aad\u66f8\u6642\u9593\uff1a <\/span> <span> 2<\/span> <span>\u5206<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/09\/barack-obama-admits-to-marial-woes-with-michelle-digging-myself-out-of-a-hole\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">married to wife Michelle Obama<\/a> for nearly 34 years.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that long and successful union, the official X (formerly Twitter) account of the Republican Party suggested today that the former president is secretly gay.<\/p>\n<p>The bizarre situation began on Thursday morning when Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez was asked about the likelihood that the US will one day elect a gay president.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p> <iframe title=\"AOC Says It's Possible We've Already Had A Gay President | TMZ\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-cookieconsent=\"statistics, marketing\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B_AN6hFEWww?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><div class=\"cookieconsent-optout-statistics cookieconsent-optout-marketing\">\u53d7\u3051\u5165\u308c\u3066\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044 <a href=\"javascript:Cookiebot.renew()\">\u7d71\u8a08\u5b66\u3001\u30de\u30fc\u30b1\u30c6\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0<\/a> \u3053\u306e\u52d5\u753b\u3092\u8996\u8074\u3059\u308b\u306b\u306f\u30af\u30c3\u30ad\u30fc\u304c\u5fc5\u8981\u3067\u3059\u3002.<\/div> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you think we\u2019re going to have first: Are we going to have a female president first, or a gay president?\u201d TMZ asked the representative from New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, we don\u2019t know if we\u2019ve already had a gay president, to be honest with you,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez astutely pointed out. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there are chances that maybe we have, I dunno.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are several presidents who historians believe might have had homosexual tendencies, including James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, we might have had two gay presidents in a row!)<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>But sensing the opportunity to take a jab at a rival politician, the folks who run the GOP\u2019s account decided to hint \u2014 with the tweet above \u2014 that Obama was the gay prez.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, X users from across the ideological spectrum were quick to call out the immaturity and homophobia of the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>But the attempt at humor backfired in other ways as well, with many commenters pointing out some of the tendencies of the <em>current<\/em> White House resident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current president is obsessed with opera, musicals, and interior design,\u201d one user wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy bet is with the makeup wearing, show tune loving, interior design obsessed felon,\u201d another added.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFunny. At least he\u2019s no pedo like Donald. You are the party who protect pedophiles,\u201d a third chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that probably wasn\u2019t the sort of reply the GOP was expecting, but it\u2019s certainly the kind they deserved.<\/p>\n<p>We suppose if we were looking for a bright side here, we might be inclined to point out that at least the tweet was slightly less offensive than the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/02\/donald-trump-racist-post-barack-michelle-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> racist Obama meme<\/a> Trump shared back in February.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, we\u2019ll eventually return to a time when politicians and the folks who communicate on behalf of parties behaved like grown-ups. But probably not.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Barack Obama has been married to wife Michelle Obama for nearly 34 years. Despite that long and successful union, the official X (formerly Twitter) account of the Republican Party suggested today that the former president is secretly gay. The bizarre situation began on Thursday morning when Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez was asked about the likelihood that the US will one day elect a gay president. Please accept statistics, marketing cookies to watch this video. \u201cWhat do you think we\u2019re going to have first: Are we going to have a female president first, or a gay president?\u201d TMZ asked the representative from New York. \u201cWell, we don\u2019t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[433,434,2,31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","category-barack-obama","category-hollywood","category-politics","category-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.space\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.space\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.space\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.space\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.space\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.space\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.space\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.space\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.space\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.space\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}