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‘We Were Never Invited Back’: Michelle Obama Discusses Returning to the White House on ‘Fallon’
Rolling Stone ^ | 04/21/2023 | EMily Zelmer

Posted on 04/22/2023 4:22:45 PM PDT by simpson96

MICHELLE OBAMA APPEARED on The Tonight Show to continue promoting her most recent book The Light We Carry. On the show, she took the opportunity to reflect on what it was like to return to the White House last fall after spending eight years there as the First Lady. She and former president Barack Obama went back to hang their portraits after not being invited to do so while Donald Trump was in office.

“It was really a beautiful experience,” she recalled. “It’s a tradition – you do your official portraits, the next president is supposed to invite you back to hang them. We were never invited back, so these pictures have been done for a long, long time… So it was good to see everybody.”

Obama also discussed how she feels that change happens best in “small bites” and her continued belief in the motto “When they go low, we go high.”

“People still keep asking me, ‘You still mean that? Still?'” she said. “I didn’t know I’d be known for that line, but I’m proud of that. People ask me, ‘Do I ever go low’ and yeah, I go low. I go low a lot of times. But I think for people who have a platform who are being looked up to, we have a responsibility to stay high. Because kids are watching us. If you need to go low, go low at home.”

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Maybe it was the way you treated him and his wife like shit on his Inauguration day, genius.

The sense of entitlement and lack of self-awareness boggles the mind.

1 posted on 04/22/2023 4:22:45 PM PDT by simpson96
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Those “portraits” were ridiculous.


2 posted on 04/22/2023 4:24:21 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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Why would she want to go back? She complained about living in a house built by slaves.

I don’t know if that is historically accurate, but she said the White House was built by slaves.

Of course, there was an easy solution for her if she really hated being in that house. But she still lived there for 8 years.


3 posted on 04/22/2023 4:24:48 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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She’s a very bitter and very racist woman. Well..person anyway


4 posted on 04/22/2023 4:28:07 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: simpson96

Biden has been squatting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, for the last couple years. He didn’t seem thrilled to do it either. Maybe he doesn’t remember who those grifters are.


5 posted on 04/22/2023 4:30:19 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: simpson96

Michelle has a huge penis.


6 posted on 04/22/2023 4:32:37 PM PDT by Canadian Nationalist
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7 posted on 04/22/2023 4:32:59 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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Or maybe because Trump knew that Obama was in on the whole Russia collusion BS from the beginning. Why would Trump give them so much as a pretend welcome.


8 posted on 04/22/2023 4:34:14 PM PDT by LizzieD
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Portrait should be in the same place they took America. 🚽


9 posted on 04/22/2023 4:35:42 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: simpson96

She’s running, but is looking for a “draft”.


10 posted on 04/22/2023 4:35:43 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Dilbert San Diego

In 1812 Michelle O would have been thrilled to see the British setting fire to the White House.

Historical notes:
The British torched major rooms in the Capitol, which then housed the Library of Congress, as well as the House, Senate and Supreme Court. The White House, the navy yard and several American warships were also burned.

Before vacating the premises on August 24, 1814, Mrs. Madison ordered that official papers and the Washington portrait should be saved from British hands. The painting returned to the White House after it was rebuilt in 1817.
Gilbert Stuart’s full-length portrait of George Washington now hangs in the East Room.

Sources: whitehousehistory.org and Architect of the Capitol.gov and archives.gov


11 posted on 04/22/2023 4:38:29 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Michelle Obama IS $h!t.

Ignore her.

12 posted on 04/22/2023 4:42:10 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (You can never have enough clamps. Thanks Ben.)
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When I chanced to see a gushy ad on TV promoting Michelle on that show I went a little nuts with rage. Our next VP or Prez, depending on Newsom.
Same as when I heard some gas car restrictions and suppression of freedom of speech plans discussed in soundbites. And Hillary quoted disdainfully insulting Trump and DeSantis. While she’s not in prison.

Have-—to——control——myself.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dilbert+fist+of+death+cartoon&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjT97Lp1L7-AhXbj4kEHeRgBSEQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1058&bih=486&dpr=1.51


13 posted on 04/22/2023 4:42:57 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Did she bring her gun to the knife fight?


14 posted on 04/22/2023 4:43:04 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: glorgau

The woman is a lazy millionairess who gets to chow down on lobster, drink expensive wine, and lecture Americans about how terrible they are every single day.

She has no need for the Presidency. That usually requires some amount of work, unless you’re a senile geezer.


15 posted on 04/22/2023 4:43:52 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: simpson96

I’m so old I remember when the Obama’s said they didn’t want to unveil their portraits at the White House while Trump was in office and held their unveiling of their “official portraits” at a DNC fundraiser. Then when Biden got into office, well sonuvabiche they suddenly unveiled NEW portraits to hang at the White House.


16 posted on 04/22/2023 4:43:54 PM PDT by Skywise
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The UGLIEST PORTRAITS EVER!!! Ridiculous....Obama in a Dining Room POOPING in the garden and Mooch with a HUGE UGLY dress not looking anything like her! HIDEOUS!


17 posted on 04/22/2023 4:45:32 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: frank ballenger
LOL... one of my favorite things Alice does sometimes...


18 posted on 04/22/2023 4:52:15 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Ann Archy
This is my own portrait which I want to hang n the White House.

It’s as real a portrait of me as Michelle’s/Mike’s portrait is of her/him.

19 posted on 04/22/2023 4:52:23 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: simpson96

Shouldn’t have spied on Trump, big mike


20 posted on 04/22/2023 4:52:50 PM PDT by struggle
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