Obama: Men 'Getting on My Nerves,' Urges 'Empowering More Women'

"Men have been getting on my nerves recently," former U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday, adding that "empowering more women" would "lead to some better policies."

Obama’s remarks were made during a town hall meeting with young leaders in South Africa.

“Everyday I read the newspaper and just think like ‘Brothers, what’s wrong with you guys? What’s wrong with us?’ We’re violent, we’re bullying. Just not handling our business,” Obama said, CNN reported. 

Speaking to 200 students Johannesburg’s African Leadership Academy, the former leader of the free world said there are “many different ways in which you can effectuate change.”

The comments came just a day after Obama, speaking in South Africa at the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, denounced “strongman politics” following President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In his speech Wednesday, Obama also denounced political leaders for lying.

“Politicians have always lied, but it used to be if you caught them lying, they’d be like, ‘Oh man.’ Now they just keep on lying,” he told the student attendees.

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