Michelle Obama, wife of the first black POTUS has opened up about being held to a different standard as well as what made her cry for “30 minutes” before leaving White House.
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‘This Isn’t Shade, It’s Truth!’ Michelle Obama Gets Real About Trump In New Interview
Michelle Obama doesn’t consider her criticism of Donald Trump’s lack of moral responsibility to be “shade,” but the “truth.”
While appearing on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Friday night, the former first lady spoke about her best-selling memoir, “Becoming,” and her time in the White House alongside the first black President of the United States, Barack Obama. After the author emphasized how she and her family maintained a “moral compass” while at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Colbert asked how she feels about “next occupant of the Oval Office” being “indifferent” to ethic responsibility.
“I have been very clear how I felt about that, I gave a speech about it at the 2016 convention,” Obama explained. “The question we have to ask ourselves is, how does the country feel about it?”
“The country has to ask itself, what do we want, what is the bar we are setting for ourselves?” she continued. “What kind of moral leadership do we demand in the White House? If we vote for one set of behavior, then that’s obviously what we want, until we vote differently.”
“The margin of error was small, and we felt that,” she added. “Barack couldn’t golf. You know, we could just start there. There’s so much that would have been an outrage for us and we knew it. There wasn’t any room for anybody in our administration to be indicted… We had to be highly ethical. We showed our taxes, we divested our money. This isn’t shade. This is just the sort of stuff we had to think about doing. This isn’t shade, it’s truth.”
