Michelle Obama had nothing nice to say about women who voted for President Trump in the 2016 election. Mrs. Obama was a guest speaker at the United State of Women Summit in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Obama blamed women for electing President Trump and she is still convinced that Hillary Clinton was the best candidate.
“In light of this last election, I’m concerned about us, as women, and what we think about ourselves and about each other,” Obama told host Tracee Ellis Ross. “What is going on in our heads where we let that happen. So I do wonder what are young girls dreaming about, if we’re still there?”
Obama continued, “When the most qualified person running was a woman and look what we did instead, I mean, that says something about where we are, if we as women are still suspicious of one another, if we still have this crazy, crazy bar that we don’t have for men … if we’re not comfortable with the notion that a woman could be our president, compared to what?”
Obama said no one president can fix the racial divide in this country.
“Barack’s presidency didn’t fix racism. We need to stop looking for a savior,” she said.
She also confirmed she will not run for president in 2020.
“That’s not the answer either,” she said. “When I hear people say ‘you run,’ it’s part of the problem. We still didn’t get ‘Yes, we can’ right. It’s not, ‘Yes, you can,’ it’s ‘Yes, we can.’ And until we get that right, it doesn’t matter who runs.”
“Looking for the next person to run … that’s been our distraction,” she said, adding it would take a collective effort to address the audience’s concerns about the country.
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