The opposite of what she and her family stood for was seen on stage. However, she pulled herself together. “When the doors closed,” she couldn’t hold back her tears, says the former first lady.
Former US first lady Michelle Obama said she cried half an hour after leaving the White House. After Donald Trump’s inauguration as president in January 2017, she and her family boarded the government plane Air Force One, the 59-year-old said on her new podcast “The Light Podcast.”
“And when the doors closed, I cried for 30 minutes, sobbing uncontrollably, because this is how we’ve pulled ourselves together for eight years,” he said.
It was difficult to leave the White House, in the US capital, Washington, where she lived for eight years – it was the only home that the two daughters really knew. “They remembered Chicago, but they spent more time at the White House than anywhere else.” Saying goodbye to White House staff was tough, said the wife of former US President (2009-2017) Barack Obama. “There were tears, there were these feelings.”
But it was particularly bad to experience Trump’s inauguration. The opposite of what she and her family represented was seen on stage. For example, the classification of gifts did not reflect social diversity. But you had to pull yourself together, as you had eight years ago, Obama said. The family then boarded the presidential helicopter, Marine One, bound for Andrews Air Force Base.
Michelle Obama insisted on giving Trump another one on her podcast. When they flew over the US Capitol in Washington, there weren’t many people there, the 59-year-old said. “By the way, we did.” The day after Trump’s inauguration in January, Trump’s press secretary at the time, Sean Spicer, stated in his first press conference, “This was the biggest audience for an inauguration. Period!”
(APA/dpa)