ABC News: Michelle Obama 'stopped even trying to smile' at Trump inauguration
"Realizing it, I made my own optic adjustment. I stopped even trying to smile."
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Washington (CNN)Former first lady Michelle Obama wrote that she was unable to put on a happy face and smile during President Donald Trump's inauguration in her new book, according to ABC News .
"Someone from Barack's administration might have said that the optics there were bad, that what the public saw didn't reflect the President's reality or ideals, but in this case, maybe it did," Obama said in audio of the book. "Realizing it, I made my own optic adjustment. I stopped even trying to smile."
In its interview with Obama, ABC News further quoted from her book, where the former first lady described her reaction to Trump's defeat of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in stark terms.
"I will always wonder about what led so many, women in particular, to reject an exceptionally qualified female candidate and instead choose a misogynist as their president," Obama wrote.
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Rump is such a fucking liar.
What was it that President Obama allegedly did to the military?
"I will always wonder about what led so many, women in particular, to reject an exceptionally qualified female candidate and instead choose a misogynist as their president," Obama wrote.
I think the residual misogyny in our nation was largely to blame. It allowed people who really didn't want a woman as President to instead focus on the lies being told about her to reject her without feeling like the chauvinistic pig they truly are inside. People believe accusations made against woman far easier than accusations made against men and require far less proof. If you simply look at the facts, Hillary actually has little baggage. If you listen to the right wing pundits you'd wonder how shes able to walk around free without being carted off to Guantanamo. And now the mountain of lies sit there preventing her from ever running for office again. Now, I really don't care that she has to sit on the sidelines, she wasn't a great politician with any real eloquence. But it's a shame that politics has come to this, where the opponent simply invents lies about you, from running pizza parlor child sex rings to murdering staffers, and the liars, idiots, morons and half wits run with it as if it's fact. I'm sure there are many conservative Republicans who believe, without evidence, that Hillary was somehow criminally using her private emails to steal money from her charity, run the "deep state" and create a mind control drug she was having her goons dump into the water supply. They really are that insane.
As for Michelle Obama, she is the pinnacle of class and intelligence. She has more dignity and honor in the tip of her pinkie than Trump has in his entire miserable mass. Having to force a smile for a worthless piece of slime like Trump is far too much effort with zero reward.
LMAO - That's a good one! Exceptionally Qualified!
I wonder what she said about that 'exceptionally qualified' female candidate when she was running against her husband!
I'm not certain why Dems think that all women should stand together...after all, we've seen them throw women under buses for years.
Donald Trump is, by far, the least worthy and most unqualified person to ever be elected president of the United States, Of course Michelle Obama knew that on Inauguration Day in 2017. Why should she have smiled?
Nobody expected her to smile at all.
She just couldn’t laugh at herself when her and her husband were the butt of the joke on that day.
Michelle and Barack have great senses of humor and incredible smiles when they laugh. The fact is, the joke that day was Trump being inaugurated which wasn't funny in the slightest. Both of the Obama's knew how deadly serious it was and we've been suffering as a nation ever since. Sure, it made the bed bugs happy, but they're not the majority and never will be, and their day of vengeance and back biting will be short lived, Democrats have already won the house back. So those who self-label themselves "deplorables" should laugh now while they still have the chance, there's not going to be much reason for conservative mirth much longer as the pendulum swings back towards logic, reason, justice and freedom and away from white nationalist theocratic fascism.
Indeed so! Their senses of humor are beyond reproach!
It was hilarious when she said this in 2008:
It was also hilarious when he said this in 2008: