Posted on 03/06/2026 6:46:30 PM PST by simpson96
Former First Lady Michelle Obama kept it real during a segment of her “IMO Podcast” with her co-host brother, Craig Robinson, taking a dig at the Trump Administration, saying there is “no way” President Donald Trump’s behavior would be accepted if it were her family in the White House acting that way.
Obama spoke with comedian and host of the 98th Academy Awards, Conan O’Brien, who brought up a time when he traveled to a military base in the Middle East with “the first Black family” of the White House. The former late-night talk show host compared the Obamas’ need to be seemingly perfect to that of baseball legend Jackie Robinson. He reminisced on noticing at the time how the family’s team was “being so careful that everything is done by the book.”
That’s when Obama touched on it being her reality and how Trump’s behavior would be accepted if her family did the same. “It wasn’t even a feeling; it was the truth. I mean, there’s absolutely no way that the behavior in this current administration would have been accepted by the first Black family in the White House,” she said.
“So, fortunately, it wasn’t difficult to do because we are those people. It wasn’t difficult to follow rules; it wasn’t difficult to have high standards. It wasn’t very difficult, because in order to get where we are, as you’ve seen in your mother, you don’t get here without being damn near perfect.”
She continued to open about what would happen if her husband, former President Barack Obama, continued to fail at certain things during his time in office, touching on how many times Trump’s past has been overlooked. “We don’t get to fail two, three, five, seven times. We don’t get to file bankruptcy over and over again and still be considered a successful business person,” the Becoming author said.
“We don’t get to not be at the top of the class. Every ‘i’ has to be dotted, every ‘t’ has to be crossed.”
Since Trump’s second term began, Obama has been outspoken on the differences in acceptance with him versus other leaders, especially those who are Black.
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*See my post o the previous thread. Predictable, I tell ya!
Obama is biracial and his father was a Kenyan. And he grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia.
Much worse was accepted by the Media when the Obamas were in the White House.
Trump would never do what Barack Obama did re the GM and Chrysler bondholders before the administration brokered bankruptcies in 2009. He called the bondholders “speculators” and was totally dismissive of their interests. Bonds have liquidation preferences printed on their face. Obama graduated from Harvard Law School.
If anyone in Moochelle 0bama’s family did anything half as smart as what Trump does on a daily basis the world’s jaw would drop to the floor.
YUGE chip! 🤔
Trump lives in their heads 24/7/365 and does so rent free...
And they deserve it....LOL
LOL!! Of course not. President Trump doesn't smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, or do drugs like your family members. Obama's own father was an alcoholic who died in a car accident while driving intoxicated, and your two surrogate daughters Malaria and Sharia both smoke, drink, and do drugs. Who the hell would want to emulate that behavior?
The bar was set so low for the Obama’s. We were told that Michelle was “glamorous”, if you can believe it.
Trump doesn’t leave the toilet seat up like Big Mike did.
Considering how well Trump did with young black and Latino men, maybe “her family” should mimick Trump.
She never ran a business, but she did get a make work 300k/ year job because she had a senator husband. And her newbie senator husband did get handed a presidential nomination, the adulation of the media, and the presidency because he was an articulate thoughtful sounding black man. So she did get things that most people never would have, things unearned.
Not much insight really, unless she's spinning in full awareness.
Big Mike glamorous-Ha!
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Every Dig at Melania is the LIE!
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I truly hate the MSM and Deep State.
Freepers are slacking-12 posts to have a Big Mike reference.
Freepers are slacking-12 posts to have a Big Mike reference.
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Obama: b-lack-ing
Integrity
Truth
Transparency
Patriotism
And so very much more.
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