Michelle Obama’s reaction to Donald Trump’s encouragement to attack the Capitol – Hollywood Life
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![EXCLUSIVE: Former first lady Michelle Obama stepped out with friends Bruce Springsteen and wife Patti Scialfa at the popular Polo Bar restaurant in New York City. The two families have been friends since The Boss campaigned for Barack Obama during his successful run for the White House in 2008. Michelle famously told her husband the President that he needed to spend more time for Springsteen. Both men have talked about their friendship - strengthened in part by the bond between their wives, Michelle and Patti. In the first episode of a podcast called Renegades, Obama, 59, said he and Springsteen, 71, "grow up to trust each other" based on the conversations they reflect on how they feel "invisible" throughout their childhood. Springsteen sang with the gospel choir at the president-elect's inauguration in 2009 and later recalled how he thought Obama had dialed the wrong number the first time the Chicago Democrat called him. . "And I said, 'OK, let me figure this out. I'm a high school guitarist from Freehold, New Jersey. And - OK - what do you want me to do?" Springsteen said. Over the years, the two have realized that they have more in common than they initially realized. Specifically, both feel like outsiders. "I always keep one foot in the blue-collar world and the other in the counterculture world," Springsteen talks about growing up in New Jersey. "And I never really belonged to either of those two, you know?". September 28, 2022 Photo: Michelle Obama. Image source: ZapatA/MEGA TheMegaAgency.com +1 888 505 6342 (Mega Agency TagID: MEGA902427_026.jpg) [Photo via Mega Agency]](https://hollywoodlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/michelle-obama-nyc-mega.jpg?w=293)
The attack on the Capitol on January 6 was a shock to a lot of people, including the former First Lady Michelle Obama. The former FLOTUS recalls watching events unfold with the former President Barack Obama in her new book The light we carry: Passing through uncertain times, released on Tuesday, November 15, Michelle recounts her fear not only of a violent attack from a mob trying to overturn a free and fair election, but also of former president. Donald Trump incite his supporters.
Michelle reflects on going to see the President by Joe Biden Innauguration, two weeks after the attack, and she said that at this point, she couldn’t help but remember what she had seen so early on. “[The rioters] smash windows, smash doors, attack and injure police officers, break into Senate chambers, terrorize our nation’s leaders and put democracy in jeopardy ,” she wrote about the attack. “Barack and I were shocked to see it happen live on the news.”
Like so many Americans, the former first lady was alarmed to witness not only the violent attack but also Trump’s rhetoric, which only fueled the crowd. “The events of that day confused me. I understand that our country is grappling with a serious level of political discord, but to witness rhetoric that points to reckless, violent violence aimed at overturning an election is heartbreaking. dire. Witnessing an American president encouraging a siege of his government is perhaps the scariest thing I have ever witnessed,” she wrote. in the book.
In addition to the January 6 attack, Michelle said she abhorred her husband’s successor from the very beginning of his presidency. She explained: “I was deeply moved to hear that the man who had replaced my husband as president openly and unrepentantly used nationalist slurs, fueled selfishness and hatred with somehow acceptable, refusing to condemn white supremacists or support racial justice protesters. “Stuck in my house during the dreaded early months of 2020, I don’t see any of that logic. What I see as a president lacking integrity is reflected in the escalating death toll across the country.”
The former first lady isn’t the only one to rebuke Trump’s actions during the January 6 attacks. Besides the House Select Committee’s investigation, has even subpoena Trumpand The President’s Call Joe Biden, former Vice President Mike Pence even expressed his indignation in a new interview with ABC News. “That makes me angry,” he said when asked how he felt about Trump’s tweet calling him out. “The president’s words are reckless. It is clear that he has decided to be part of the problem.”
