Donald Trump pushes back on Michelle Obama’s “no hope” line as he compliments the first family

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference in Washington, Friday, June 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Earlier in the week, a clip from an Oprah Winfrey interview with first lady Michelle Obama was released in which the first lady speaks on her time in the White House and what lies ahead.

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Within the interview, the first lady seemed to invoke a negative expectation for the upcoming Trump years, in comparison to her husband President Barack Obama’s time as president.

“Because we feel the difference now,” she said in an interview set to air next week.

“See, now we’re feeling what not having hope feels like.”

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At his final rally of 2016, President-elect Donald Trump spoke of Obama’s line, saying he believes that people may have taken it out of context.

“Michelle Obama said yesterday that there’s no hope,” Trump told his fans.

“But I assume she was talking about the past, not the future, ’cause I’m telling you, we have tremendous hope and tremendous promise.”

“I actually think she made that statement not meaning it the way it came out, I really do,” Trump said would later say.

“Because I met with President Obama and Michelle Obama in the White House, my wife was there — she could not have been nicer. I honestly believe she meant that statement in a different way than it came out.”

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