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Michelle Obama’s String of Falsehoods Reveals Why Dems Lost the Male Vote

WASHINGTON / June 4, 2025 – This past week former First Lady Michelle Obama made numerous claims during her IMO podcast that unfairly stereotyped men and promoted provably false claims (1). Democrats who hope to attract the male vote in future elections need to speak out against such extreme falsehoods.

The following paragraphs quote Michelle Obama’s claims, followed by the relevant facts:

Bizarre Claims: “A lot of men don’t feel a connection to women’s health.” FACT: 14% of the NIH research budget is allocated to women’s health, while only 6% goes for men’s health (2). This long-standing imbalance in favor of women has happened largely at the behest of male lawmakers and male administrators.

Playing the Victim: “We haven’t been researched, we haven’t been considered, and it still affects the way a lot of men lawmakers, a lot of male politicians, a lot of male religious leaders think about the issue of choice.” FACT: In contrast to the aggressively promoted feminist claim, women have been fully included in medical research for decades (3). A 2001 government report revealed, for example, “GAO found that women were a majority of the clinical trial participants in the new drug applications (NDA) it examined” (4).

Stating the Exact Opposite of the Truth: “I implore men in the world who have women that they say they care about, daughters that they are raising, that [women’s health] is their issue, too.” FACT: The US Department of Health and Human Services currently has seven offices of women’s health, and no offices of men’s health (5). A more truthful statement would have been, “I implore women in the world who have men that they say they care about, sons that they are raising, that men’s health is their issue, too.”

Fantasy Statements: “I mean for men to sit on their hands over this issue and trade out women’s health for a tax break … is a sad statement about that man’s level of value of the women in their lives.” FACT: This make-believe claim lacks a factual basis. “No studies or polls explicitly ask men about supporting tax breaks for women’s health services,” according to Grok (6).

Outdated Sex Stereotypes: “There are a lot of women who vote the way their man is going to vote. It happened in this election.” FACT: Obama’s claim is false. A 2020 report from the Center for American Women and Politics reveals long-standing and growing differences in male and female voting patterns (7).

Last week’s IMO podcast was not the first time that Michelle Obama has directed her ire towards men. During last year’s presidential campaign, Obama berated men for their alleged “misogyny” towards women (8). In truth, anti-male misandry is far more widespread than anti-female misogyny (9).

The male vote is now recognized as the new “power demographic.” (10). Ignoring this reality is one of the reasons why Democrats lost the recent presidential election.

If Democrats wish to emerge from the political wilderness and reconnect with the male electorate, they need to cease the gross misrepresentations that permeated Michelle Obama’s recent IMO podcast.

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