Forever First Lady Michelle Obama went on The Tonight Show last night to promote her new book The Light We Carry and spill a little tea about the Trumps.
During the interview, Jimmy Fallon asked her about returning to the White House last year for the unveiling of her and President Obama’s official portraits after not being invited to do so while Donald Trump was in office.
“It was really a beautiful experience,” she recalled. “It’s a tradition. You do your official portraits, the next president is supposed to invite you back to hang them. We were never invited back, so these pictures have been done for a long, long time.”
“It was good to see everybody,” she added. ☕
The fact that the Trumps didn’t invite the Obamas back to the White House for their official portrait unveiling is not surprising. Trump helped popularize the racist Obama birther conspiracy, and Melania also peddled it in interviews prior to her husband’s 2016 run for the White House.
Obama didn’t elaborate too much more with Fallon beyond that, but we’re guessing neither she nor her husband were too broken up over the snub considering that they disliked the Trumps just as much, if not more.
On her podcast last month, Obama confessed she had a little breakdown immediately after Trump’s inauguration, in part because she was overwhelmed that her time as First Lady had come to an end, but also because of her resentment over Trump taking office.
“After the inauguration, and we know whose inauguration we were at, that day was so emotional on so many different reasons,” she recalled.
“When those doors shut, I cried for 30 minutes straight, uncontrollable sobbing, because that’s how much we were holding it together for eight years,” she added, referring to her last trip aboard Air Force One.
The ex-FLOTUS has been totally MIA since her husband was indicted last week.
While the Obamas–Michelle in particular–seem to be thriving these days, the same can’t be said for the Trumps.
Donald was just criminally indicted in New York last month for his alleged role in the Stormy Daniels hush money scandal and currently faces 34 felony charges of falsifying business records in the first degree.
He’s also the subject of not one but two federal investigations and another investigation in Georgia, in addition to several civil lawsuits against both himself and the Trump Organization.
Meanwhile, Melania has purportedly been laying low at Mar-a-Lago, avoiding both the press and her husband, and refusing to participate in any way in his 2024 presidential campaign because, sources say, she’s “not comfortable”.
Watch Michelle Obama’s appearance on The Tonight Show below.
The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled the official portraits of former president Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama.
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I love Michelle.
And I mostly agree with her: “When they go low, we go high.” But…..
We need ONE (1) person to go belly to belly with the MAGA fascists.
When any DeSantis/Trump/McCarthy acolyte goes all authoritarian-anti-LGBT+, we need a fighter to be on every possible media outlet going all ape-shit on their asses.
When somebody goes low to hurt us, we must drop to our knees……..and bite off their nuts.
Sorry, Michelle.
The GOP has never done anything for anyone but themselves.
Vote out EVERY Republican.
SILENCE EQUALS DEATH.
Our job now is to get 5 young voters registered before 2024 (only 23% of them voted in 2022). Everyone must do their part to throw out the Republicans.
Whenever I hear about Melania I’m reminded of lyrics from a Stones song,
Well now you’re a pillar of society
You don’t worry about the things that you used to be
You’re a rag-trade girl, you’re the queen of porn
You’re the easiest lay on the White House lawn
Get out of my life, don’t come back
Except Melania was hardly the queen of anything, including porn. She posed for those awful, depressing, nude photographs, showing that she has absolutely zero personality or charisma and only had a naked body to trade with. She is a born grifter and cypher, just like her hideous husband.
All four of my kids are registered to vote (ages 22 – 18). The youngest three helped vote in Brandon Johnson as mayor of Chicago! (Oldest is still registered in our former state.) They will also actively vote to make sure no MAGA backed national or state level candidates win (MAGA has no chance of winning locally in Chicago, except for a few wards.)
I think with the latest with the Fox settlement, the final nail to Trumps coffin has just been pulled out of Jack Smith’s pocket for a good hammer slam’n. I’d expect multiple indictments including Trump to fly off the shelf any day now. Jail for Trump may be permanent house arrest with full muzzle. Who knows. But one thing’s for sure, it’s the most entertaining show on earth, albeit sad. The ETs really know how to keep us distracted while they implement their AI takeover. Boom.
I agree with all the above posters. Can I just add that this episode of Jimmy Fallon hosting Michelle Obama was a sheer delight, beginning with their bookstore prank and continuing with this conversation? She is so smart, funny, class, and real, and I miss her in the White House, though I do like Dr. Jill Biden and the work she’s doing (gaffes aside). Can you imagine Melania Trump having a conversation like this with anybody, including the Don the Con propagandists on FauxNews or OAN?
AND! Michelle Obama designed and helped install teaching Gardens. With help from so many students from ANACOSTIA and beyond, explained how to plant a seed, to grow and nurture a plant. To harvest! To COOK the plant! To feed the soil.
These kids will remember her for the rest of their lives. To feed themselves. She touched and inspired. She smiled and laughed with reckless abandon. She hugged and helped so many people. She cried with them.
When her family walked into The White House for the first time, little cuties in tow after the inauguration, I was a mess. I was in tears. I was almost in disbelief! I was overcome with pains from the past. I’m welling up now as I think of the trauma and injustice her elders went thru…………and then to walk thru those doors. And walk out with grace after eight joyous years.
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Plato
I love Michelle.
And I mostly agree with her: “When they go low, we go high.” But…..
We need ONE (1) person to go belly to belly with the MAGA fascists.
When any DeSantis/Trump/McCarthy acolyte goes all authoritarian-anti-LGBT+, we need a fighter to be on every possible media outlet going all ape-shit on their asses.
When somebody goes low to hurt us, we must drop to our knees……..and bite off their nuts.
Sorry, Michelle.
The GOP has never done anything for anyone but themselves.
Vote out EVERY Republican.
SILENCE EQUALS DEATH.
brian6767
LMMFAO!!
MISTERJETT
……and you can’t get any lower than MAGA
abfab
I’d settle for MAGA…..but with my little twist…………..MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN
mykelb
Our job now is to get 5 young voters registered before 2024 (only 23% of them voted in 2022). Everyone must do their part to throw out the Republicans.
gjg64
Whenever I hear about Melania I’m reminded of lyrics from a Stones song,
Well now you’re a pillar of society
You don’t worry about the things that you used to be
You’re a rag-trade girl, you’re the queen of porn
You’re the easiest lay on the White House lawn
Get out of my life, don’t come back
ScottOnEarth
Except Melania was hardly the queen of anything, including porn. She posed for those awful, depressing, nude photographs, showing that she has absolutely zero personality or charisma and only had a naked body to trade with. She is a born grifter and cypher, just like her hideous husband.
abfab
And Elton’s The Bitch Is Back……………which we hope will never come to be.
abfab
I’d be so HAPPY if Michelle did a few more seasons of Waffles + Mochi.
hoosier1969
All four of my kids are registered to vote (ages 22 – 18). The youngest three helped vote in Brandon Johnson as mayor of Chicago! (Oldest is still registered in our former state.) They will also actively vote to make sure no MAGA backed national or state level candidates win (MAGA has no chance of winning locally in Chicago, except for a few wards.)
abfab
This makes me happy….we will do this. We’ve had enough.
Jimmynj
All of the Trumps prove on a daily basis that they are complete and utter trash. When can we finally put these traitors in jail????
abfab
Build a GREAT BIG HUGE WALL around Mara Largo.
Diplomat
I think with the latest with the Fox settlement, the final nail to Trumps coffin has just been pulled out of Jack Smith’s pocket for a good hammer slam’n. I’d expect multiple indictments including Trump to fly off the shelf any day now. Jail for Trump may be permanent house arrest with full muzzle. Who knows. But one thing’s for sure, it’s the most entertaining show on earth, albeit sad. The ETs really know how to keep us distracted while they implement their AI takeover. Boom.
Kangol2
I agree with all the above posters. Can I just add that this episode of Jimmy Fallon hosting Michelle Obama was a sheer delight, beginning with their bookstore prank and continuing with this conversation? She is so smart, funny, class, and real, and I miss her in the White House, though I do like Dr. Jill Biden and the work she’s doing (gaffes aside). Can you imagine Melania Trump having a conversation like this with anybody, including the Don the Con propagandists on FauxNews or OAN?
abfab
AND! Michelle Obama designed and helped install teaching Gardens. With help from so many students from ANACOSTIA and beyond, explained how to plant a seed, to grow and nurture a plant. To harvest! To COOK the plant! To feed the soil.
These kids will remember her for the rest of their lives. To feed themselves. She touched and inspired. She smiled and laughed with reckless abandon. She hugged and helped so many people. She cried with them.
When her family walked into The White House for the first time, little cuties in tow after the inauguration, I was a mess. I was in tears. I was almost in disbelief! I was overcome with pains from the past. I’m welling up now as I think of the trauma and injustice her elders went thru…………and then to walk thru those doors. And walk out with grace after eight joyous years.
I can’t say enough about her.