Michelle Obama's office released a press release Tuesday saying the previous first lady is not going to accompany her husband to Donald Trump's inauguration next Monday. It is the second time in two weeks that she has missed a gathering of American leaders and their spouses, having also not attended former President Jimmy Carter's funeral on January 9.
As with Carter's funeral, where Michelle Obama would likely have sat next to Trump, her office gave no reason for her no-show at his swearing-in ceremony. Whether she's having one other “scheduling conflict” like she had with Carter's funeral, she made it pretty clear five months earlier that she doesn't think much of Trump as a president or as an individual.
While you’re widely praised speech At the Democratic National Convention in July, Michelle Obama argued that ladies's lives can be in danger if Trump were elected to a second term and offered certainly one of her party's “most emphatic takedowns” of the forty fifth president, mostly without mentioning him by name to call. because the New York Times reported.
While she praised Vice President Kamala Harris' “dignity,” qualifications and accomplishments, she mocked Trump's privileged background, his profession filled with business failures and the “luxury” he enjoys of “whining or cheating others to get ahead.”
Michelle Obama, who previously campaigned against Trump in 2016 and 2020, also directed his more controversial comment about “black jobs” at him, criticizing him for promoting birtherism, racism and “lies.”
Before and through Barack Obama's presidency, he and his wife were the goal of unsubstantiated claims by Trump, his wife Melania Trump and other Republicans that his birth certificate was a fake, NPR reported. Michelle Obama said the Oakland-born former San Francisco district attorney is who Black and Asian Americans or Indian Americans, should expect the identical sort of attacks. In fact, Trump made false claims about Harris' racial identity after she became the Democratic nominee, saying that “she suddenly became…a black person.”
“We know people will do anything to distort their truth,” Michelle Obama said. “Unfortunately, my husband and I know a little about it. For years, Donald Trump has done everything in his power to make people afraid of us.”
She continued: “His limited and narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hard-working, highly educated and successful people who also happened to be black.”
In a moment that had the group cheering and laughing, Michelle Obama said, “Who's going to tell him that the job he's looking for right now might just be one of those 'black jobs'?”
According to NPR, Michelle Obama was referring to Trump's comments during his June debate against President Biden. Trump said immigrants coming to the U.S. are “taking away black jobs now.” She also acknowledged the undeniable fact that her black husband served two terms as president and a black woman was running for the office of the country's forty seventh president.
Again, without mentioning Trump by name, Michelle Obama compared his background to Harris, who was raised in Berkeley by a middle-class single mother. She said Americans like how Harris understands “that most of us will never be given the grace to fail forward,” a reference to Trump's business woes, in line with the New York Times.
Michelle Obama also noted that almost all Americans don’t grow up with “the positive impact of generational wealth.” Trump was born in Queens, New York, the son of a wealthy developerThis emerges from a 2018 New York Times investigationreceived greater than $413 million from his father over the a long time, much of it through “tax evasion,” including “outright fraud.”
“When we see a mountain in front of us, we don't expect there to be an escalator waiting to take us up,” said Michelle Obama, receiving thunderous applause with every line.
Barack and Michelle Obama's office released a press release to the Associated Press on Tuesday saying Barack Obama would attend the sixtieth inauguration ceremonies, but his wife wouldn’t. Laura Bush and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may also attend Trump's swearing-in ceremony on the U.S. Capitol together with their husbands George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
Michelle Obama attended Trump's first inauguration in 2017, when she was the outgoing first lady. According to CNN, she and her husband also took part in one of the enduring “transfer of power rituals” on Inauguration Day. Then the outgoing president and his wife greet the brand new first couple on the steps of the North Portico of the White House, invite them for tea or coffee after which drive with them to the US Capitol.
Michelle and Barack Obama did this courtesy for Donald and Melania Trump in January 2017, although the Trumps didn’t extend this courtesy for Joe and Jill Biden in 2021 after Trump lost the 2020 election.
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