{"id":71740,"date":"2025-08-16T03:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71740\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T03:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:07:06","slug":"michelle-obama-weighs-in-on-caitlin-clark-angel-reese-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71740\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama weighs in on Caitlin Clark-Angel Reese ‘hate’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former first lady\u00a0Michelle Obama<\/a>\u00a0weighed in on the WNBA rivalry between Caitlin Clark<\/a> and Angel Reese<\/a> for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During an appearance on\u00a0the podcast<\/a>\u00a0\u201cAll the Smoke with Matt Barnes & Stephen Jackson,\u201d Obama spoke during a group discussion about the impact of the Clark-Reese drama on the WNBA\u2019s popularity, the impact on the players\u2019 well-beings and \u201chate\u201d involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the tough thing is the social media element to it. But that\u2019s true across the board. I mean, we\u2019ve talked about this on our show; it just takes a normal occurrence. These young kids today, what they have to go through, what they have to be able to withstand, because social media is such a huge part of the world,\u201d Obama said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s the hate. But now the hate is in your room, on your phone, with you all the time. And you can\u2019t, for whatever reason, tell these kids to turn it off, because they\u2019re making their living that way. I mean, now they are expected to stay engaged. So, I think that makes it feel even worse. But I think, as you point out, that\u2019s happening in sports across gender. It\u2019s just harder not to withstand other people\u2019s horrible, horrible opinions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The rivalry between Clark and Reese was renewed in their first game of the 2025 season on May 17.<\/p>\n

Clark\u2019s Indiana Fever defeated Reese\u2019s Chicago Sky 93-58, and Clark was called for a flagrant foul after a defensive play against Reese.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Former first lady\u00a0Michelle Obama appeared on the podcast\u00a0\u201cAll the Smoke with Matt Barnes & Stephen Jackson,\u201d to discuss the rivalry between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese in the WNBA. IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson”\/YouTube<\/p>\n

The rivalry between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese rekindled on May 17, 2025, when Clark was called for a flagrant foul against Reeese. Joseph Cress\/Iowa City Press-Citizen \/ USA TODAY NETWORK<\/p>\n

The two players haven\u2019t played each other since as the Indiana Fever came out on top against the Chicago Sky 93-58. Joseph Cress\/Iowa City Press-Citizen \/ USA TODAY NETWORK<\/p>\n

The WNBA<\/a> announced after the game that it would be launching\u00a0an investigation\u00a0into alleged \u201cracist\u201d comments directed at Reese, but could not substantiate the allegations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The two have not played each other since that May 17 game, as both have dealt with injuries throughout the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Obama recently made headlines with another sports-related opinion, when she compared ESPN to reality TV during an episode of her brother\u2019s podcast \u201cIMO\u201d in July.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all a sociological study. They think that sports is better reality TV, I\u2019m like, \u2018It\u2019s the same thing.\u2019 If I listen to ESPN for an hour, it\u2019s like watching the \u2018Real Housewives of Atlanta,\u2019 you know?\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the same drama, and they\u2019re yelling at each other, and they don\u2019t get along, you know? I mean, Stephen A. Smith, he\u2019s just like every other. . . .\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former first lady\u00a0Michelle Obama\u00a0weighed in on the WNBA rivalry between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese for the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[56200,64,63,726,6554,1685,56201,85,5941],"class_list":["post-71740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-angel-reese","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-media","tag-michelle-obama","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}