“It shook me profoundly' In a new book, former first lady Michelle Obama addresses the deep hurt and disappointment she felt when Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election.
“It shook me profoundly to hear the man who replaced my husband as president openly and unapologetically using ethnic slurs, making selfishness and hate somehow acceptable, refusing to condemn white supremacists or to support people demonstrating for racial justice,” wrote Obama in “The Light We Carry,” a copy of which was obtained by CNN. “It shocked me to hear him speaking about differentness as if it were a threat.” Audio excerpts from the book were first released Monday to NPR.
” “Whether or not the 2016 election was a direct rebuke of all that, it did hurt. It still hurts,” she said. “It felt like something more, something much uglier than a simple political defeat.” “Stuck in my house, over the frightening months of early 2020, I saw no logic to any of it,” Obama said, analyzing how she sunk into a deep lack of hope. “What I saw was a president whose lack of integrity was reflected in an escalating national death count, and whose poll numbers were still decent.
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