On the latest episode of his Renegades podcast with Bruce Springsteen, former President Barack Obama recalled having very few possessions to his name when he met his wife, Michelle Obama.
And I lived in these scruffy looking apartments and all of my furniture was, you know, scavenged from out of the street.
In contrast, Obama described meeting some of Michelle’s friends, who he joked resembled a preppy, 1980s Richard Gere in American Gigolo.
I had one sports jacket that didn’t quite fit me right – that I’d gotten off some discount store.”