After 8 years of presidency, on the 20th January 2017, the 44th president of United States Barack Obama, passed his charge to the 45th president Donald Trump. In these 8 years, Barack Obama made many important changes for the American people: for example the ObamaCare which is a US healthcare reform that expands and improves access to care and curbs spending through regulations and taxes. It has helped over 9.9 million US citizens to have new health insurance, and more than 4 percent of all have gotten health insurance for the first time.
In 2013 he incited the US states to increase the minimum salaries to 10.10$ per hour: 18/50 states agreed. He cut taxes creating, saving millions of jobs and helping the raise of car industries after the financial crisis. He also signed a legislation where men and women could be paid equally.
Obama also signed a legislation against the discrimination of any individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity a federal crime. Obama had a fundamental role in the Paris Agreement, setting with other Countries regulations to limit the Climate changes.
He had also won the Noble prize for peace for have signed the end of the nuclear era in Iran. During these years we had the opportunity to get to know better the Obama’s family made up of Barack Obama, Michelle Obama Robinson, the two daughter Malia and Sasha and their two dogs called Sunny and Bo.
Malia and Sasha have grown up in the White House: in November 2008 they were 8 and 11 years old, now, January 2017 they are 15 and 18. Malia, the older daughter has already finished high school and after a gap year, she’ll attend Harvard University. She wants to be a filmmaker. Sasha, the youngest, has to do other 2 years in high school. Michelle Obama was a very active First Lady promoting physical and mental health: for example in 2013 she launched a campaign named “Let’s move against obesity” especially through young people as kids and redesigned the school’s launch program.
But now…Where are they? Where do they live? What will they do in the near future? Well, American and also international presses already know some facts about their future.
First of all, where did they move to? They moved to the exclusive Washington DC neighborhood of Kalorama, 2 km away from the White House. They chose to stay in a luxurious brick villa of 761 square-meters, with three floors, 9 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, 2 garages and a huge garden. From the American presses they’ll stay there for two years, until Sasha graduates. This fact made Obama the first president to live in Washington DC after his term (since 1921).
Obama is still younger than the other president at the and of their presidency: he is only 55 years old while his wife is 53. So What will they do? From some interviews they’ve made, they will have a break, sleeping and relaxing with the family. Then they announced the creation of the Obama foundation that has his headquarters in south Chicago.
With this foundation the Obamas and private citizens will bring all the ideas, beliefs and hopes of American people and they’ll try to transform them into reality. Then they will continue to be part of the “My Brother’s Keeper Alliance” for the poor Black and Latinos boys. Both Obama and Michelle will write books.
Then there are other possibilities: for example Barack Obama could be a guest speaker thanks to his fame as a great orator. He is a lawyer so he can be also a Supreme Court Lawyer if Trump appoints him, the Senate accepts him and if he wants, of course.
Before he became president he also taught at the University of Chicago so he can also go back and continue teaching.
There are other hypothesis about Barack Obama future but we know for sure that he will be active in community life.
Celine Polepole, 2B Ls
