'Many people took pictures of me, and they're like, 'You weren't in a good mood?'' Obama said on her podcast. 'No, I was not!'
, left the White House in January 2017, following the latter's two terms in office. He was succeeded as president by Trump, a Republican noted for his starkly different views and values compared to the outgoing Democrat, and who perpetuated the"birther" conspiracy theory that Obama was not born in the United States.
"To sit on that stage and watch the opposite of what we represented on display—there was no diversity, there was no color on that stage," she said."There was no reflection of the broader sense of America...Many people took pictures of me, and they're like, 'You weren't in a good mood?' No, I was not! But you had to hold it together like you do for eight years."
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