Troy Smith
During an episode of her podcast, former First Lady Michelle Obama claimed that she cried for 30 minutes after Trump was inaugurated President in 2017.
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She can be quoted as saying…
I cried for 30 minutes straight — uncontrollable sobbing — because that’s how much we were holding it together for eight years
Michelle Obama
See a clip of that moment from her podcast below…
Michelle Obama cried for half an hour after Trump’s 2017 inauguration pic.twitter.com/V6ce6XMATx
— Global Monitor (@GlobalMonitor0) March 7, 2023
At the time, Michelle Obama claimed that she had a completely different response to Trump’s inauguration. The Washington Post reported at the time…
Laughter erupted inside the New York City studio after “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon asked Michelle Obama what was running through her mind as she waved goodbye on Inauguration Day in 2017.
“Bye, Felicia,” Obama cheekily replied of the moment that marked the end of her family’s time at the White House and the beginning of the Trump administration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/07/michelle-obama-podcast-trump-inauguration/
Is Michelle Obama merely revealing the truth after passed time, using a false statement in the moment to make herself look better?
Or, is she exaggerating the events of the day to garner more attention?
The former First Lady added…
We were leaving the home we had been in for eight years, the only home our kids really knew,” Obama says of her daughters, Malia and Sasha. “They remembered Chicago, but they had spent more time in the White House than anywhere, so we were saying goodbye to the staff and all the people who helped to raise them.
To sit on that stage and watch the opposite of what we represented on display — there was no diversity, there was no color on that stage. … But you had to hold it together like you do for eight years,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/07/michelle-obama-podcast-trump-inauguration/
