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Former First Lady Michelle Obama warned against lecturing voters who supported President Donald Trump during a podcast interview on Sunday, calling their support for the president an “act” of not knowing what else to do.
“Talk Easy” podcast host Sam Fragoso asked if her opinion of the country changed after Trump was elected in 2016 and again in 2024.
Obama said she was obviously disappointed by it, but the outcome had to do with people’s pain and their position in their lives. The former first lady said people struggling with health care and the high cost of living made them more vulnerable to looking for someone to blame.
FORMER DEMOCRATIC SENATOR ACCUSES THE PARTY OF EFFECTING VOTERS THROUGH “HECTORIZATION AND REPORTS.”
Michelle Obama speaks at “IMO Live: Michelle Obama, Craig Robinson & Dr. Laurie Santos” during the SXSW Conference and Festivals at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas on March 13, 2025. (Andy Wenstrand/SXSW Conference & Festivals)
“And it’s true that anger, you know, I can’t look some people in the face and tell them that you have no right to be angry or to do something that might be against your own best interest,” she said. “That’s what – that’s human nature. A lot of the people who I voted for my husband twice – twice! And I know they feel that way. It’s as if this is about nothing other than that we need something else.
Obama continued: “So you can’t just put them in a box and say you just don’t care and you’re racist or whatever you think. That’s an act of ‘I don’t know what else to do’.”
“I just wish we had more leaders who thought about it Figure out how we can do more for the middle class and working people, because those are the people who are drowning in this economy,” she added. “That’s not me anymore, but I know these people, and they’re good people, and they have no way out, and that leads to bad decisions.”
Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama appear on stage on the second night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 20, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
At the beginning of the conversation, Obama said that the United States “has not yet completed the task of making this democracy a reality.”
Obama said in April that America would leave through his “Junky” era.
“Well, this is the 2.0 of life and when we talk about it, what do you think about the country? You know, there are versions of the country that are happening, right? her “IMO” podcast.
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She said with each version of America, the country has learned something about itself before pointing to the ICE shootings in Minnesota and community reaction.
“But with each, you know, with each version, we have learned something about ourselves as a country,” Obama said. “And you know, right now I’m kind of loving how people are reacting, right? I mean, Minnesota, powerful stuff. I mean, it was a powerful reminder of what a community of people can do and are willing to do to protect each other.”
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She argued that a country that isn’t so “crazy” doesn’t have to prove it.
