Michelle Obama Didn't Watch Donald Trump Win the Election:
'I Went to Bed'
Less
than a month after Vogue ran a cover story featuring First Lady Michelle Obama, People has
done the same thing, publishing a joint interview with the First Lady and her
husband President Barack Obama. In the interview, Michelle Obama,
a Hillary
Clinton supporter, revealed that she didn't stay up to see Donald Trump win
the election. Instead,
she said, "I went to bed." In another part of the
interview, President Barack Obama added that, despite the widespread issues
following the Trump election, the recent election and its aftermath
"doesn't negate all the progress that's been made" over the last
eight years.
In the
interview, the First Lady explained why she chose not to watch the results of
the election. "I don't like to watch the political discourse; I never
have," she said. While referring to her husband's two presidential
campaigns, she added, "I barely did with him."
She
also noted that she worked hard during the Clinton campaign and didn't feel as
though she could affect the outcome of the election in any way by watching the
poll numbers come in. "Once you do what you can do, then the rest is
easy," she said. "It was in the hands of the American
people."
But by
no means does that mean she regrets campaigning for Clinton. "Anything that
I felt about the election I said and I stand by," she said.
The
First Lady is famous for her motto "When they go low, we go high,"
and she stuck with it regarding the election results. And while she doesn't
take back her criticisms of Trump during the campaign, she is prepared and
willing to help the president-elect and his family (she's already met with future First Lady Melania Trump).
"This is our democracy, and this is how it works," she explained.
"We are ready to work with the next administration and make sure they are
as successful as they can be. Because that's what’s best for this
country."
In another clip from the People interview, President
Obama discussed concerns over Trump. He noted that people have commented about how calm he seems about the whole thing. "Well, part of
it is being born in Hawaii, the weather's really good. You can always take a
plunge in the ocean, that'll chill you out," the president joked. Then he
got serious: "But also, I'm somebody who never believes the hype when
things are going good and doesn't despair when things don't work out your
way."
"The
truth of the matter is that, when I got elected, there was still racism and
misogyny and anti-gay sentiment in America," he continued. "What it
signified was that, for the majority of Americans, we had made significant
progress." Now, though, he explained, "In the wake of this election,
those same elements are still there, but it doesn't negate all the progress
that's been made."
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