They say “you are the company you keep” — and the fact that, a decade later, President Obama is STILL so close to Angela Merkel that the former German Chancellor flew 4,500 miles to celebrate him this week speaks volumes about them BOTH!
While we all know about his accomplishments — killing Bin Laden, achieving record economic growth, winning a Nobel Peace Prize — HERS are equally impressive:
✅ First female Chancellor of Germany
✅ First chancellor to grow up in the former East Germany
✅ Youngest German chancellor since WWII
MOST impressively, before her political career, she earned a doctorate in quantum chemistry and was the only woman in the theoretical chemistry section at the East German Academy of Sciences 🤯
Smart people unite!
Haters gonna hate. Racists gonna be racist.
In all this madness, strive to be a Michelle Obama.
Grace under fire. Strength that doesn’t break.
Be the one who rises above it.
#DemsUnited
Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama surprised the first 100 visitors to walk through the doors of the new Obama Presidential Center. https://t.co/LFRI1Ebs11