Michelle Obama fed her husband's feud with Donald Trump on Friday as she gave a gloomy description of the hopeless climate his election win has created.
The
First Lady used her final interview in the White House to tell Oprah
Winfrey that a 'grown up' should be in charge of the country.
Looking
forward to president-elect Trump's looming inauguration, she said even
though hope was lost, it was necessary to move on.
'Now
we're feeling what not having hope feels like. Hope is necessary,' she
said in her first direct response to the November 9 election result.
Mrs
Obama's remarks come within hours of her husband's announcement Russian
hackers interfered with the election to help his successor.
Trump, who is yet to accept the DNC hack was orchestrated by one of Putin's agencies, undermined the announcement on Twitter.
Michelle Obama
gave her final interview as First Lady on Friday, telling Oprah Winfrey
that the country had lost hope since Trump's election win.
In
her interview with Oprah, the First Lady said the president needs to be
someone 'who can say to you in times of crisis and turmoil: "hey, it's
gonna be ok"'.
She said she was
assured her husband had achieved his goal of setting a hope-fueled
agenda because of the contrasting mood brought by Trump's victory.
'Your
husband's administration, everything, the election, was all about hope.
Do you think that this administration achieved that?' asked Winfrey.
In a lengthy reply, Mrs Obama said calmly: 'Yes. I do. Because we feel the difference now.
'Now, we're feeling what not having hope feels like. Hope is necessary. It's a necessary concept.
'What else do you have if you don't have hope?'
In a glowing assessment of her husband's tenure, Mrs Obama likened him to the calming parent of the panicked toddler nation.
'Our
children respond to crisis the way they see us respond. You know, it's
like the toddler bumps his head on the table and they look up at you to
figure out whether it hurts and if you're like (gasp) "oh my god"
they're crying but if you're like "you know what, babe it's OK"...
'And
I feel that way about the nation, I feel that Barack has been that for
the nation in ways that people will come to appreciate.
'Having
a grown up in the White House who can say to you in times of crisis and
turmoil : "hey, it's gonna be ok", let's remember the good things that
we have, let's look to the future, let's look at what we're building" -
all of this is important for our kids to stay focused and to feel like
their work isn't in vain and their lives aren't in vain.
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