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Michelle Obama Won't Back Down From Criticizing Trump
The first lady told People that just because she and her husband are aiding in the transition effort doesn't mean she takes back anything she said about Trump during the election.
By Nico Lang
December 08 2016 1:28 PM EST
Michelle Obama is going to keep fighting Donald Trump. The first lady sat down with People to say goodbye to the White House, as the magazines cover story reads, and the 52-year-old said she wont back down from the searing criticisms of the president-elect she made on the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.
Anything that I felt about the election I said and I stand by, Obama said, adding, Once you do what you can do, then the rest is easy. It was in the hands of the American people.
The first lady was one of Trumps most outspoken and persistent critics throughout the 2016 campaign, taking the Republican to task for his hot-headed temperament, refusal to say whether he would concede the election if Clinton won the electoral vote, and leaked audio tapes in which he claimed that its OK if you sexually assault women as long as youre famous.
We need an adult in the White House, Obama said of the billionaire businessman in September, claiming that he ran a campaign based on name-calling. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can't just pop off or lash out irrationally, she said.
She cited his role in the birther moment, a campaign that falsely claimed that President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S.
If a candidate is erratic and threatening, she continued, if a candidate traffics in prejudice, fear and lies on the campaign trail, if a candidate thinks that not paying taxes makes you smart or that it's good business when people lose their homes, if a candidate regularly and flippantly makes cruel and insulting comments about women about how we look, how we act well, sadly, that's who that candidate really is.
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longship
(40,416 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)About how to deal with bullies and prejudice.
I hope she continues to fight for us.
mnhtnbb
(31,411 posts)What a marvelous FLOTUS she has been.
alicenuffer
(20 posts)Just waiting for the barrage of nasty tweets from the dregs himself....you go Michele!
47of74
(18,470 posts)The old nasty racist f sticks will call her and her husband names no matter what she does, so she might as well fight them.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,794 posts)We need to call him out and shine a light on his actions every day. My Facebook and email campaign is an ongoing thing. My "friends" are mostly trump supporters. Oh wow some of the comments are legendary in their vileness. I love poking that bear with facts they can't disprove.
whathehell
(29,102 posts)Jean-Jacques Roussea
(475 posts)I thought there was a chance he wouldn't accept it if he lost no matter the outcome.
RoccoR2
(90 posts)He will be 76yo in 2020... Guess who should run for his seat