While I for one hoped she’d lay low in her first year as a non-resident of the White House, former First Lady Michelle Obama has instead remained pretty active. Actively embarrassing, that is.
Here are five of the more notable occasions on which Mrs. Obama, an embarrassment for much of the previous eight years, remained “relevant” this past year as well.
Michelle claims women who voted for Trump voted against … women
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
Michelle Obama argued that female Trump supporters went against the cause of their gender by voting for Trump.
“Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice,” she told the crowd at a conference in Boston.
Between @MichelleObama and @HillaryClinton, leftist women sure aren't very inclusive – unless you think like them.
— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) September 27, 2017
Michelle dresses as cop-hating singer and idol Beyoncé
Mrs. Obama was once asked what job she would choose if she could have a different one. The question falsely implies that she was employed during her eight years in the White House, but she answered anyway — and the answer was a doozy: She said that she “would be Beyoncé,” as though being another person is a job.
She got her wish, kind of. As part of the thirty-sixth birthday celebration for the singer (whom Obama said she considers “a role model for young girls around the world” — this despite her appearing half-naked in her music videos), the former first lady dressed up like a member of the militant Black Panthers organization.
Michelle lectures men about their ‘stuff’
At a leadership summit hosted by the Obama Foundation, Michelle took the opportunity to mock men, ridiculing them for not talking to each other enough and sorting out their emotional issues.
.@MichelleObama tells men "y'all need to go talk to each other about your stuff. Because there's so much of it. It's so messy." pic.twitter.com/IpCzpFDbUC
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 1, 2017
We think Obama should heed her own advice and start by giving a nudge to these two friends of hers:
Michelle calls the Republican Party ‘all men, all white’
At at the Pennsylvania Conference For Women in October, she blasted the GOP for its lack of diversity, and claimed it consisted of “all men, all white.”
Obama told those assembled that she came to this conclusion when she watched one of her husband’s State of the Union speeches:
On one side of the room, it’s literally gray and white, literally, that’s the color palette on one side of the room. On the other side of the room, there’s yellows and blues and whites and greens, physically there’s a difference in color in the tone.
Had she opened her eyes up a little bit wider, she might have noticed people on the Republican side like Tim Scott, Elise Stefanik, Joni Ernst, and Mia Love.
Michelle complains that the toughest part of being first lady was enduring the racism
Speaking at the Women’s Foundation of Colorado’s 30th anniversary celebration, the former first lady said:
The shards that cut me the deepest were the ones that intended to cut. Knowing that after eight years of working really hard for this country, there are still people who won’t see me for what I am because of my skin color.
Eight years of working really hard for this country? We’ll have to save that head scratcher for another column. For now consider that her husband was elected the first black president in America’s history.
Actor James Woods, meanwhile, had a wonderful comeback:
What? One personal 747 and 32 assistants weren't enough for her eight year vacation on your dime? https://t.co/2HsKhWtDcp
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 31, 2017
Cross posted at the Mental Recession
