Just when you though TDS wasn’t real, I give you Michelle Obama reading from her latest book, The Light We Carry – that will surely make her gajillions of dollars, mind you – about how she’s still hurting from Trump’s win back in 2016.
“It felt like something more, something much uglier than a simple political defeat,” Obama said in a clip from the audio version of her forthcoming book, “The Light we Carry,” published Monday by NPR.
The part-self-help book, part-memoir is poised to be released on Tuesday.
“I couldn’t help but return to the choice our country had made to replace Barack Obama with Donald Trump. What were we to take from that?” Obama said.
“Barack and I always tried to operate on the principles of hope and hard work — choosing to overlook the bad in favor of the good, believing that most of us shared common goals and that progress could be made and measured, however incrementally, over time,” Obama said.
“We’d tried to live those principles out loud, recognizing that we made it as far as we had despite, and maybe even in defiance of, the bigotry and bias so deeply embedded in American life. We understood that our presence as Black people in the White House said something about what was possible,” Obama said as she read from the pages of her book.
That’s why, when Trump won the presidency in 2016 after Obama’s eight years in office, the former first lady said, the election results hit her so hard.
“Whether or not the 2016 election was a direct rebuke of all that, it did hurt. It still hurts,” Obama said.
You know what I bet really helps with all of her hurting, though? One of her three homes in Illinois, Washington, or Martha’s Vineyard.
That liberal defiance and “hurt” really paid off, dontcha think?
Ah, yes. Public service. It’s a great gig if you can get it.
MicHELLe should be grateful that Scary Barry served TWO TERMS instead of one term like Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush. This present regime is merely the third term that Obama craves. Other than that, who cares what she has to say. I was never much of a fan of the Obamas, like those around me are.
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MicHELLe should be grateful that Scary Barry served TWO TERMS instead of one term like Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush. This present regime is merely the third term that Obama craves. Other than that, who cares what she has to say. I was never much of a fan of the Obamas, like those around me are.
Like we care what Barack’s Husband thinks.