Toward the end of their 1.5-hour sit-down talk, Oprah pops the big question: Will Michelle Obama ever run for president? The answer, Democrats, is a resounding no.
,” Michelle tells Oprah, taking a dig at Trump. “Who had steered the country through several pandemics. Remember Ebola? I think one case reported in the U.S. That was my husband.”
“What scared me, Oprah, was watching the confusion in the world — the mixed messages, the inconsistency, the lack of leadership, the lack of a plan, watching people not take this seriously, people treating the pandemic like an extended vacation, people arguing about wearing masks, watching kids partying on the beach in Florida,” Michelle added.
Michelle says she found herself “spiraling down in a depression… and I needed to find my own hope.” The election of Trump also left pondering whether the Obama presidency had any lasting impact. “In a way, I felt a little abandoned,” shares Michelle. “It’s like, did it really matter what we did? Does it? That’s the dark part of those times.”
She was “losing a bit of my own light” and had to “search my own toolbox for ways to come out of that,” which included knitting and, of course, writing the aforementioned book.
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