Michelle Obama Says Donald Trump Winning Presidency Was ‘A Slap In The Face’ Because ‘A Lot Of Our Folks Didn’t Vote’

Michelle Obama, Donald Trump

Michelle Obama Says Donald Trump Winning Presidency Was ‘A Slap In The Face’ Because ‘A Lot Of Our Folks Didn’t Vote’

The Michelle Obama documentary “Becoming,” lands on Netflix tomorrow, Wednesday May 6, and new clips show that Michelle Obama was frustrated after Donald Trump was voted President in 2016.

The 90-minute film is the follow up to her 34-city book tour launched in her hometown, Chicago, with Oprah Winfrey.

As for what to expect from the documentary, fans will get to see what happened behind the scenes of her tour, Michelle Obama’s early life.  The film also features her husband and former President Barack Obama, her daughters, Sasha and Malia Obama, her mother, her brother, Craig Robinson, and White House roommate, Marian Shields Robinson.

In the documentary, fans will also get a behind-the-scenes look intothe biggest moments of her life.

One of those is when it was announced that Donald Trump would be the next president, following Barack Obama’s eight-year stint. She said in the docu,

“It takes some energy to go high, and we were exhausted from it. Because when you are the first black anything…So the day I left the White House and I write about how painful it was to sit on that [inauguration] stage. A lot of our folks didn’t vote. It was almost like a slap in the face.”

“I understand the people who voted for Trump. The people who didn’t vote at all, the young people, the women, that’s when you think, man, people think this is a game. It wasn’t just in this election. Every midterm. Every time Barack didn’t get the Congress he needed, that was because our folks didn’t show up. After all that work, they just couldn’t be bothered to vote at all. That’s my trauma.”