This is not the first time Michelle Obama opened about about skipping Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20 but this time she said she’s tired of always doing the right thing. Speaking with Steven Barlett during Thursday’s episode of “The Diary of a CEO” podcast, Michelle Obama sai she has been this box-checking person who has been checking all the boxes that she was supposed to, doing the right thing.
“You know, as a box-checking person who has been checking her whole life, doing the right thing, trying to always be an example, always going high … I think I just told myself, ‘I think I’ve done enough of that,’ and if I haven’t, then I never will,” Michelle Obama said.
Her absence at the inauguration, followed by her absence from another high-profile event, the funeral of Jimmy Carter, triggered speculations over her marital discord with former president Barack Obama. It was at the same time that rumors of Barack Obama dating Jennifer Aniston started doing the rounds.
On April 23, at an episode of her own podcast, Michelle said that people could not believe that there was no reason for her staying away from the public events. “They had to assume that my marriage was falling apart.”
Michelle recounted the details of how painstakingly she avoided attending the event as she began the practice of the “art of saying no”. She said she basically tricked herself into missing the event by ensuring that she didn’t have anything to wear for it. “I was like, if I’m not going to do this thing, I’ve got to tell my team,” she said adding, “I don’t even want to have a dress ready, right?” She explained that if she had a dress ready, then she would have ended up attending the event any way.
“After all that I’ve done in this world, if … I still have to show people that I love my country, that I’m doing the right thing, that I am … going high all the time, all I’m doing is keeping that crazy bar that our mothers and grandmothers set for us,” Michelle added.
