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MOBILE, Ala. President-elect Donald Trump said first lady Michelle Obama "must have been talking about the past" when she said there's no sense of hope after his election.
Trump, speaking Saturday at the final rally of his postelection "thank you" tour, then resisted escalating the spat further, suggesting "she made that statement not meaning it the way it came out."
But as Trump praised the Obamas for treating him so nicely when he visited the White House shortly after the election, many in the Mobile, Alabama, crowd booed the first family.
Michelle Obama, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey set to air Monday on CBS, said she was now certain that her husband's victory had inspired people because "now we're feeling what not having hope feels like."
Read more: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/2016/12/trump_says_michelle_obamas_no_hope_comment_about_the_past
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)malaise
(268,670 posts)fugging idiot
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)She is a smart woman and knows exactly what she said and meant. She can't help it of Sir Sniffs a Lot doesn't have a clue.
GoCubsGo
(32,073 posts)And, she is 100% correct.
lame54
(35,259 posts)Ilsa
(61,690 posts)She is much more literate and well spoken than him. How dare he try to twist her words and claim she didn't mean what she said.