Kris Jenner hits back at President Obama

Kris Jenner has hit back at President Obama after he criticised her daughter Kim Kardashian and her boyfriend, Kanye West, for their opulent lifestyles.

Kris – momager and matriarch of the Kardashian clan – used her own talk show, Kris, to address the President, saying she disagreed with Obama that Kim and Kanye have been influencing the younger generation to be obsessed with wealth and money.

The US President said in a discussion with Kindle last week that he bemoaned the recent “shift in culture”, saying: ‘There was not that window into the lifestyles of the rich and famous,” President Obama said of his time growing up.

“Kids weren’t monitoring every day what Kim Kardashian was wearing or where Kanye West was going on vacation and thinking that somehow that was the mark of success.”

Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner previously supported President Obama at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner — Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner attended the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner

Kris hit back saying she thought it was admirable that people, including a high school graduate such as herself, aspired to obtain great jobs.

Jenner continued with some sarcastic comments about Obama’s house remarks, saying: “I thought, Wow, I bet the president has some friends with 10,000-square-foot houses, and you probably wouldn’t mind going over there, Mr President, when you were asking them to have a party for you when you were campaigning for dollars to run for president.”

President Obama said shows like the Kardashians are giving young people unrealistic goals

Kris said she finds it “odd” that Obama chose to criticise Kardashian and West, saying: “Kanye West, first of all, doesn’t go on vacation. Ever.

“And Kim Kardashian is the hardest-working young lady in the world. She never sleeps, she never stops, she never slows down and works so hard for what she’s got.”

“You poke at someone and you criticise someone for living a lifestyle… I’m sure that when he was growing up, his dream was, ‘One day, I want to become president of the United States and have this wonderful, fabulous life’. That was his dream. I just didn’t think we should put a cap on [dreams].

“Bruce Jenner’s big thing is, ‘Dream big, work hard’. We all want to aspire and do whatever we want. I don’t think it’s such a bad thing to want to be our best and do our best and have nice things.”