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When news broke that Michelle Obama wasn’t attending Donald Trump’s inauguration, word spread around the internet faster than gossip after a funeral.
After all, it was quite literally a funeral that sparked the first inkling that Michelle Obama wasn’t playing by anybody’s rules anymore.
As we watched former presidents and dignitaries solemnly walk into that church and sit down to pay respects to Jimmy Carter, a noticeable elephant in the room stomped louder than Mr. Bush thumping on Mr. Obama’s chest to slide into that pew and avoid interacting with Donald Trump: Michelle didn’t come.
The former first lady issued a statement with gracious condolences to the Carter family and a vague explanation about being in Hawaii, but some of us were already putting 2 + 2 together that Mrs. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson probably had zero interest in breathing the same air as the man who put a target on her husband and family’s back for years.
Birth certificate? Called my husband the founder of ISIS? Yeah. I refuse. *Smooths microbraids.*
While the world applauded Mr. Obama’s class and going high as he politely entertained Trump during the Carter funeral, the princesses of petty read the tea leaves that Mrs. Obama likely skipped a funeral to avoid being fake. The disgust was likely too much to contain.
But once it was confirmed that Michelle was indeed not attending Trump’s inauguration, thereby crushing all the eggshells many had been tiptoeing around during this latest Trump transition, a collective slow clap of standing ovation emerged across the country, particularly among Black women.
Why, you ask?
Well, frankly, she is our hero- rather she-roe; for refusing to go along with the shenanigans we’ve all been forced to…
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