Michelle Obama Responds with Powerful Speech at Obama Center Opening
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What powerful message did Michelle Obama deliver at the Obama Center opening?
Michelle Obama just brought the house down at the opening of the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago. She torched Donald Trump without even having to utter his name, showing the contrast between the Obama administration and this Trump regime. This is Donald Trump's worst nightmare. Donald Trump's hate and defeat. compared to the love, the joy, and the real winning of the Obamas. Let me show you what went down moments ago during this powerful speech. Former First Lady Michelle Obama talked about how former President Obama wasn't talking about arches or reflecting pools.
How did Michelle Obama contrast her husband's presidency with Trump's?
He was doing the people's work. He was rescuing our economy, and yes, he was winning real peace prizes. Let's play this clip.
When the people's work rescuing our economy, expanding healthcare, ending a war, ordering the bin Laden raid, saving an auto industry, winning a peace prize, keeping us safe from Ebola, regulating the banks, standing up for marriage equality, listening to science and comforting an entire nation in the face of unspeakable tragedies. And you did it all with such grace and class and cool that you made the hardest job in the world look like a walk in this beautiful park.
I told you that she was torching Donald Trump. Then Michelle Obama talked about what really makes our country great, where the real truth of this country lies. Let's play this clip.
That's where the truth of this country lies. Not in grabbing as much as we can get for ourselves or knocking folks down to prop ourselves up. But in the overwhelming goodness, the relentless striving, the quiet dignity that is inside all of us, our greatest hope is that this center can reflect back just a fraction of that light. That it can capture the beauty of who we all are. no matter what we look like or where we come from or how much money we earn or how we pray or vote or speak or love. It's why during our administration, we threw open the White House doors to all sorts of folks who don't usually get to meet the president or first lady.
and Michelle Obama talks about how former President Obama, not once, not once did he melt from the heat, not once did you let it harden you, how you always focused on your oath and how you always grounded what you did in the American people and making the lives of the people you represented better versus enriching yourself. Let's play it.
that standing by your side hasn't left me in awe. Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence, your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber. And to do it all as a first and the higher standard that comes with all that, the claims that a US Senator and constitutional law expert wasn't qualified for the job, the lies about your birthright, your faith, your patriotism, the outrage when you stated the biological fact that if you'd had a son, that he too would be black. Yet you were unflappable at every turn, always focused
Always calm, always looking at the long view. How absurd it is to even imagine that you might've buckled under the pressure even once, lashed out in frustration, lost your temper.
What examples did Michelle Obama give of President Obama's accomplishments?
How absurd it is to imagine that you might've done anything but make our family and this entire country proud.
And Michelle Obama says, you heard me. I'm going to take some time right here to praise former President Obama, Barack Obama, especially right now as the country is engulfed in such turmoil and chaos as a result of Trump infecting this nation with his MAGA lies. Let's play this clip.
Make us proud every step of the way. Love you, babe. Oh, so please indulge me for a moment because I'm gonna take a little time to do something that I know my husband will not do today. And that is to fully sing his praises.
Barack, you gotta look at me.
You told me all those- And Michelle Obama talks about how no one has the right to sit in judgment of who America is.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What powerful message did Michelle Obama deliver at the Obama Center opening?
0:00–0:44
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How did Michelle Obama contrast her husband's presidency with Trump's?
0:44–5:25
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What examples did Michelle Obama give of President Obama's accomplishments?
5:25–15:00
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What does Michelle Obama say about the essence of America?
15:00–15:39
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