For anyone who might like to see Michelle
Obama run for president as a Democrat, it’s time to rein in that early
enthusiasm. Or so says her husband, President Barack Obama.
“Michelle will never run for office,” the
president said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine done the day after
Donald Trump’s surprise win, and amid some social media swirl urging the first
lady to consider throwing her hat in the ring.
“She
is as talented a person as I know. You can see the incredible resonance she has
with the American people. But I joke that she’s too sensible to want to be in
politics,” Obama said.
Her
confidence and style struck a strong chord on the campaign trail, where she
supported Hillary Clinton. The first lady slammed Trump’s attitude toward and
treatment of women.
Obama, who will be 53 when she leaves the
White House, is the first black first lady in American history. Her husband is
55.
A
Harvard-educated lawyer, she will leave the White House on January 20 enjoying
sky-high ratings — approved by 79 percent of the American public, according to
a recent Gallup survey. That makes her more popular than her husband, the first
African American president of the United States.
Asked
about her ambitions in the past, Michelle Obama has repeatedly said that she
would not follow in the footsteps of Hillary Clinton, who ran for the
presidency her husband Bill held from 1993-2001.
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