Michelle Obama has revealed the one Trump-era policy that \u201ckeeps her up at night\u201d.<\/p>\n
The former First Lady opened up about Trump\u2019s second term during a wide-ranging conversation on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast, where she laid bare her anxieties, frustrations, and a firm refusal to compromise on personal peace.
\n\u201cIn this current climate, for me it\u2019s what\u2019s happening to immigrants,\u201d Obama said. \u201cIt\u2019s not the fear for myself anymore. I drive around in a four-car motorcade with a police escort. I\u2019m Michelle Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, the ex-FLOTUS did admit that her concerns do remain close to home, adding: \u201cI do still worry about my daughters in the world, even though they are somewhat recognizable.\u201d<\/ins><\/p>\n Obama, now 61, said her concern centers around people of color and immigrants across America, citing \u201cbias,\u201d \u201cracism,\u201d and \u201cignorance\u201d that she fears is going unchecked in the current political climate.<\/p>\n Obama also addressed fears about whether migrants are receiving due process under the current administration, hinting at a shift away from judicial fairness.<\/p>\n \u201cNow that we have leadership that is, sort of, indiscriminately determining who belongs and who doesn\u2019t,\u201d she said, \u201cwe know that those decisions aren\u2019t being made with courts and with due process.\u201d<\/p>\n She was joined on the podcast by her brother, Craig Robinson, who recalled a traumatic childhood experience in which he was accused by a Black police officer of stealing a new bike. Drawing a parallel to modern-day discrimination, Michelle said she sees echoes of that same bias playing out in immigration enforcement.<\/ins><\/p>\n Her husband, former President Barack Obama, also weighed in on the state of American politics earlier this month \u2014 again without naming Trump \u2014 during a speech at Hamilton College. He continued: \u201cI am more troubled by the idea that a White House can say to law firms, \u2018If you represent parties that we don\u2019t like, we\u2019re going to pull all our business or bar you from representing people effectively.\u2019 That kind of behavior is contrary to the basic compact we have as Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n Why Michelle Skipped Trump\u2019s Inauguration .\u201cIt started with not having anything to wear,\u201d she said bluntly. \u201cI walk around with the right dress, I travel with clothes just in case something pops off. So I was like, if I\u2019m not going to do this thing, I got to tell my team, I don\u2019t even want to have a dress ready, right? Because it\u2019s so easy to just say, let me do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Her decision drew backlash, with critics speculating that it reflected deeper political rifts\u2014or even marital strain with Barack Obama, who attended both events alone.<\/p>\n \u201cMy decision to skip the inauguration, what people don\u2019t realize, or my decision to make choices at the beginning of this year that suited me were met with such ridicule and criticism,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople couldn\u2019t believe that I was saying no for any other reason, that they had to assume that my marriage was falling apart, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n The former First Lady made it clear that her absence had nothing to do with scandal and everything to do with self-care. \u201cI\u2019m at this stage in life where I have to define my life on my terms for the first time,\u201d she shared. \u201cSo what are those terms, and going to therapy just to work all that out?\u201d<\/ins><\/p>\n She added that she\u2019s now teaching her daughters, Sasha and Malia, \u201cthe art of saying no.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI want them to start practicing now the art of saying no, because I see it in them \u2014 pleasing, excelling, not wanting to take anything for granted, always showing gratitude,\u201d she said. \u201cFeeling like they\u2019re enough right now. It\u2019s a practice. It\u2019s a muscle that you have to build. Because if you don\u2019t constantly build it, you don\u2019t develop it.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Michelle Obama attended Trump\u2019s 2020 inauguration, she has since made her stance clear. She\u2019s previously referred to Trump as \u201ca convicted felon, a known slumlord,\u201d and \u201ca predator found liable for sexual abuse,\u201d according to The Independent.<\/p>\n\n Michelle Obama has revealed the one Trump-era policy that \u201ckeeps her up at night\u201d. The former First Lady opened up about Trump\u2019s second term during a wide-ranging conversation on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast, where she laid bare her anxieties, frustrations, and a firm refusal to compromise on personal peace. \u201cIn this current […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/495121910_1870876693690563_2589036391137004183_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15222,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220\/revisions\/15222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cLook, I don\u2019t think what we just witnessed in terms of economic policy and tariffs is going to be good for America, but that\u2019s a specific policy,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m more deeply concerned with a federal government that threatens universities if they don\u2019t give up students who are exercising their right to free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nMichelle also used her own podcast, IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson, to finally explain why she was absent from Trump\u2019s 2025 inauguration \u2014 fueling widespread speculation after she also skipped the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter earlier that month.<\/p>\n