We could all use some good news right now — luckily, former FLOTUS and POTUS Barack and Michelle Obama are here with their usual #CoupleGoals antics and the cuteness is unreal.
As Glamour reports, on Tuesday, which also happened to be the Obamas’ 25th wedding anniversary, Michelle was speaking alongside Shonda Rhimes at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women in Philadelphia. While they weren’t together, Barack still managed to jump in and surprise his wife with a pre-filmed video that (somehow) manages to top all of his super sweet social media messages to Michelle in the past.
The video, which was played for Michelle and the audience while she was speaking at the conference, starts off with the former POTUS apologizing for “crashing this party.” (And for the record, I’m totally okay with Obama crashing any party, at any time.)
He continues, “The idea that you would put up with me for a quarter of a century is a remarkable testament to what a saintly, wonderful, patient person you are,” he says in the video. “It was a lot easier for me to do it because the fact of the matter is that not only have you been an extraordinary partner, not only have you been a great friend, somebody who could always make me laugh, somebody who would always make sure that I was following what I thought was right, but you have also been an example to our daughters and to the entire country.”
And, (no surprise here), but it gets even sweeter. “It’s no wonder that as people got to know you the way that I got to know you, they fell in love. And it is truly the best decision that I ever made to be persistent enough in asking you out for a date, that you finally gave in. I hope you feel the same way.”
I’m not crying, you are — and reportedly, the former FLOTUS was too. After the video finished playing, Michelle basically summed things up by turning to Shonda and saying, “I’d better get home.” Too adorable.