Michelle Obama outlined being asked to take a motorcade from the president’s residence across the street to Blair House in her book, the same trip the Washington Post criticized President Trump for Tuesday.
The Post said Trump and first lady Melania Trump taking a motorcade the 250 yards “was the latest in a series of magnanimous gestures” Trump made to honor former President George H. W. Bush, and added that the move raised questions about why they didn’t just walk across the street.
“The need for the motorcade, however, prompted questions, and a healthy dose of speculation, about why the Trumps were unable — or unwilling — to simply walk across the street,” the article states.
Some on social media mentioned how other presidents had walked the route between the president’s residence and the president’s guest house, and others mocked Trump’s heel bone spurs, which was the reason why he was given medical deferment from the draft to serve in the Vietnam War.
In her newly released book Becoming, however, Michelle Obama said that she and her husband were often asked not to walk the path and instead to take the motorcade in the exact route the Trumps traveled Tuesday.
“If Barack and I had a meeting in Blair House, located just across an already closed-off part of Pennsylvania Avenue, they’d sometimes request that we take the motorcade instead of walking in the fresh air,” Obama wrote in her book.
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— Philip N Cohen (@familyunequal) December 5, 2018
