The wife of the former US President Barack Obama Michelle Obama said that after the victory of the Republican Donald Trump in the 2016 elections helped his wife Melania Trump settle into the White House, despite her dislike for the new head of state. She announced her communication with the current First Lady in Instagram .
Obama stressed that she did not forget how Trump spread about her husband “racist lies”, because of which, according to her, her family was at risk.
“I was not ready to forgive it. But I knew that for the sake of our country I had to find the strength to moderate my anger,” she wrote. In the same post, she says that she warmly invited Melania Trump to the residence of the American President, shared her experience and answered all her questions.
“I knew this was the right thing to do – because our democracy is much bigger than anyone’s ego,” the wife of the 44th President of the United States emphasized, adding that any election results should be recognized, and not “played along with baseless conspiracy theories.” endangering the democratic order. She ended the post with a call to all Americans, “especially the leaders of our nation,” to support a soft transfer of power, as American presidents have done throughout the country’s history.
By Trump’s “racist lies”, the former first lady supposedly meant that the Republican supported the theory of Barack Obama’s foreign origin. According to her, he was born outside the borders of the United States and therefore served as president in violation of the American constitution.
On November 16, the current US President Donald Trump announced on Twitter twice that he won the 2020 elections against existing results.
November 7, Democratic Party of the United States Joe Biden got 290 with the required 270 electoral votes. Having secured his victory, he declared himself the President-elect of the United States. Trump, in turn, said that the elections are not officially over yet, and the results will be appealed in court. He believes that Biden hastened to call himself the new leader of the country, since the elections are not over yet.