TOP SHOT – President-elect Donald Trump (C) is greeted by US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama (L) upon arrival at the White House in Washington, DC, January 20, 2017. / AFP / JIM WATSON (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Michelle Obama She opened up about leaving Washington, D.C. with her husband, the former president. barack obamaafter donald trumpinauguration ceremony.
“We’re going through the Capitol, waving goodbye, getting on Marine One and taking the last flight over the Capitol,” she said on Tuesday’s debut episode of Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast. According to people.
The former first lady then dismantled one of Trump’s first presidency lies: his claim that a large crowd turned out to have witnessed his inauguration.
”[T]”There weren’t that many people here,” she said. “By the way, we saw it!”
Trump, who has always been obsessed with crowd size, reportedly furious his inaugural voter turnout Fewer attendees than Obama’s 2008 galaplaying cards lied about the size of the crowdand infamously sent then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer to discuss it with the media.
Spicer called it “the largest audience ever to witness the inauguration,” and Trump advisers Kellyanne Conway defended asanother fact”
The former first lady called that final day in Washington “emotional for so many different reasons.” And she noted the lack of diversity among Trump’s guests.
“There was no diversity. There was no color on that stage,” she told interviewer Hoda Kotto. “There was nothing that reflected the wider meaning of America.”
She finally let her emotions out when they left Washington.
“I cried for half an hour when those doors closed. We’ve been keeping it together for eight years, so I sobbed uncontrollably.
The first episode of the podcast will be available on Audible on Tuesday.