Michelle Obama: This is just like one of the president’s pressers! (ap photo)
First lady Michelle Obama had a bunch of White House offspring to the East Room today for “Take Your Child to Work Day.” The enignmatic FLOTUS — who we think reveals more than she shows, a la Laura Bush — took questions from the kiddos and shared some deets about life in the White House.
The first lady was asked what she would do if something “bad” happened — like an earthquake in China.
“Well, first of all I’d wake my husband up if it were night. And I’d tell him, hey buddy, you’re the president. Get down to the Oval Office and call some leaders. You know, that’s the beauty of my job. I mean, I’m married to the president and he has to worry about all that. So I think he would probably call together his Cabinet members…And then I’d go back to sleep and ask him how it turned out when I woke up the next morning.”
To a question about what she does in her free time, Mrs. Obama said she walks and trains the new dog, Bo (“He’s crazy!”) and goes to her kids’ games at school. And sometimes, she likes to sneak away from it all:
“Every now and then I have this thing I like to do with some of my staff members, and we sneak out, without telling anybody, and we go and test out all the fun places to eat in D.C. — like I went to Five Guys and nobody knew it. It was good. So we sometimes, we sneak out and do little things like that.”
Hmm. You are on notice, Mrs. Obama! She also talked about White House tween sleepovers, which tend to end with the girls falling asleep in front of the TV, and shared an anecdote about how Bo, the FIDOTUS, was kicking up a ruckus in the living quarters recently and she and POTUS thought it might be an intruder or something.
From the pool report: A ten-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy, accompanying journalist-parents to work for the day, offered these observations after the FLOTUS event:
Girl: She wore cool clothes.
Boy: She had a black belt that looked like a pit bull’s collar.
Girl: She said a few times to try your best.
Boy: She encouraged us to skip school.
