BARACK & MICHELLE: POISON PEN PALS!

Ego-fueled battle over their books splinters marriage

BRAGGING Barack Obama’s gloating as his book sales eclipse those of wife Michelle has opened old wounds and once again pushed the cranky couple toward a final marriage crisis, sources snitch to GLOBE.

Michelle’s blockbuster biography, Becoming, sold 725,000 copies on its first day of publication in 2018, but the former president’s recently released A Promised Land moved more than 800,000 books upon its debut!

Beaming Barack, 59, crowed to talk show host Jimmy Kimmel his 768-page tell-all sold “a tad more” than Michelle’s — but he claimed, “I’m not rubbing it in over dinner.”

However, an insider dishes, “He definitely was rubbing it in, at least in Michelle’s view.