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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Nov 12, 2018, 02:34 PM Nov 2018

Michelle Obama: 'I stopped even trying to smile' during Trump's inauguration

Former first lady Michelle Obama says in her new book that she stopped "even trying to smile" during President Trump's 2017 inauguration.

Obama sat down with "Good Morning America's" Robin Roberts in an interview released Sunday to discuss the turnover from her husband's administration to Trump's.

She writes in her book "Becoming" that the celebratory feel during her husband's two inaugurations was gone when Trump was sworn into office in Jan. 2017.

"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, " she wrote, according to ABC. "But in this case, maybe it did."

"Realizing it, I made my own optic adjustment," she continued. "I stopped even trying to smile."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michelle-obama-i-stopped-even-trying-to-smile-during-trumps-inauguration/ar-BBPBvni?li=BBnb7Kz

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Michelle Obama: 'I stopped even trying to smile' during Trump's inauguration (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2018 OP
I don't know how she made herself go. 3catwoman3 Nov 2018 #1

3catwoman3

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1. I don't know how she made herself go.
Mon Nov 12, 2018, 03:01 PM
Nov 2018

I not only wouldn't have been able to smile, I'd have been barfing.

I couldn't bring myself to watch the broadcast.

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