On several occasions, Donald Trump has falsely claimed that former President Barack Obama wasn’t born on U.S. soil. Michelle Obama addressed these lies in her speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in the context of how she raised her daughters, Malia and Sasha Obama, to look past people who publicly brought up such bizarre rumors. She added that they ensured their kids knew that the hate speech they frequently witnessed on television wasn’t an accurate representation of the country they loved so dearly.
She concluded the topic beautifully, saying, “We explain that when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level — no, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.” A few months after the address, The Washington Post shared an audio recording of Trump bragging about how he inappropriately touched women and kissed them without their consent.
The former First Lady got visibly emotional as she addressed the topic during a speech, saying, “This is disgraceful, it is intolerable, and it doesn’t matter what party you belong to.” She expressed the comments unsettled her on a deeply personal level. Back then, Trump wrote off his disgusting recording as “locker room talk.” Michelle clapped back at this so-called explanation by noting that no man in her life would speak about a woman in such a derogatory manner under any circumstances.
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