It means so much to Barack and me to open up the Obama Presidential Center on the South Side of Chicago. This is where I grew up, where Barack got his start, and where we raised our girls. So having a place where kids from our community can see themselves, connect with each other, and channel their hope—there’s nothing more powerful than that.
Michelle Obama is THE best First Lady, I mean that with everything I am. Michelle is Beautiful, Intelligent Classy, an absolute breath of fresh air. Her presence makes people feel comfortable & empowered. ❤️🩷
#MichelleObama#MichelleObamaIsBeautiful#FirstLady
Michelle Obama reflects on Maya Angelou:
She told us our worth has nothing to do with what the world might say. Dr. Angelou's words sustained me on every step of my journey, through years on the campaign trail where, at times, my very womanhood was dissected and questioned
Some people will spend their entire lives trying to tear down a woman they could never hope to become.
Michelle Obama walked into the White House carrying the hopes of little Black girls who had never seen themselves reflected there.
She carried herself with brilliance.
With grace.
With dignity.
She became a symbol of possibility.
And because America has always demanded that extraordinary Black women endure what others never have to, she has spent years facing insults, lies, and cruelty designed to make her smaller.
But history has already rendered its verdict.
When children needed hope, Michelle Obama gave them hope.
When young people needed a role model, she showed them what strength looks like.
When the world watched, she showed us that kindness is not weakness, that intelligence is not arrogance, and that going high is not surrender—it is power.
No conspiracy.
No slur.
No bitter man chasing attention will ever be remembered more than the woman who inspired millions.
Long after today’s outrage merchants are forgotten, schoolchildren will still read her words.
Young women will still follow her example.
And generations yet unborn will know that in a time that often rewarded division and cruelty, Michelle Obama stood as a testament to excellence, compassion, and the boundless promise of this country.
Some people leave behind outrage.
Michelle Obama left behind a legacy.
And legacy always outlives hate.
🚨 Absolute madness in the US right now as the Uruguay national team gets pulled to the side of the road and treated like straight-up suspects.
They literally just landed for the World Cup and security is already ripping their luggage open on the tarmac with sniffer dogs everywhere
Qatar and Russia hosted without this level of paranoia but the "land of the free" is handing out pure humiliation to Global South athletes before a single match is even played, the double standards are screaming.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
#MichelleObamaDay
BREAKING: BRILLIANT! Rep. Becca Balint uses the disgusting UFC attack on Michelle Obama to remind the world that Melania Trump is in the Epstein files!
When they go low, we go for the knockout punch...
"The comment was disgusting, racist, and obviously not true, but this is a great opportunity to remind folks that First Lady Melania Trump was in the Epstein files, which is disgusting and unfortunately very true," Balint wrote on X.
Last night during the tawdry UFC event on the White House lawn, racist fighter Josh Hokit yelled out "Michelle Obama is a man!" It was a familiar white supremacist trope which asserts that Black women are inherently less feminine than white women.
In her tweet about the incident, Balint included screenshots of files in the Epstein trove that implicate our current First Lady.
"Dear G! How are you?" Melania wrote to Epstein's right-hand woman, sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. "Nice story about JE in NY mag. You look great on the picture. I know you are very busy flying all over the world. How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY.
Have a great time! Love, Melania."
Maxwell responded by calling Melania "sweetpea" and filling her in on her New York plans. The warm, familiar tone of the exchange makes it clear that the two were close friends, which adds fuel to the speculation that Melania was trafficked to Trump by the Epstein organization. She must be forced to testify the moment that Democrats retake control of Congress.
The contrast between Michelle and Melania could not be starker. The former is compassionate, brilliant, and deeply empathetic. The latter is cold, incompetent, and shockingly comfortable hanging out with pedophiles. So comfortable in fact, she married one.
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