Former first lady Michelle Obama was unable to fake a happy face during President Trump’s inauguration, she writes in her new book.
“Someone from Barack’s administration might have said that the optics there were bad, that what the public saw didn’t reflect the President’s reality or ideals, but in this case, maybe it did,” Obama said in audio of the book, released by ABC News. “Realizing it, I made my own optic adjustment. I stopped even trying to smile.”
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Obama discusses her dislike of her husband’s successor in her forthcoming memoir, “Becoming,” which is set to be released Tuesday.
She said she would “never forgive” Trump for questioning the legitimacy of her husband’s birth certificate because it put her family’s safety at risk, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
“What if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and drove to Washington? What if that person went looking for our girls?” she wrote. “Donald Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this I’d never forgive him.”
Trump responded to the excerpt, saying Obama “got paid a lot of money to write a book, and they always expect a little controversy.”
