From Yahoo:
“Michelle Obama Is Facing
Backlash for a Comment About Donald Trump”
Michelle Obama is currently
facing backlash for a comment she made in reference to Donald Trump and his
administration. During a stop in London for her Becoming book tour, the former
first lady discussed life under the Trump administration, likening the current
state of the country to being under the care of a "divorced dad." “We
come from a broken family, we are a little unsettled,” she said, according to
The Independent. “Sometimes you spend the weekend with divorced dad. That feels
like fun but then you get sick. That is what America is going through. We are
living with divorced dad.” The Independent reports that the comment was spoken
"jokingly" to interviewer Stephen Colbert, but jokes aside, some
people took issue with what her comment implies about divorced dads and their
capabilities. Obama did not mention
Trump by name, but had referred to him indirectly during the event. “This may feel like a dark chapter but any
story has its highs and lows but it continues," she said. "Yes, we
are in a low but we have been lower. We have had tougher times, we have had
more to fear. We have lived through slavery, the Holocaust and
segregation." The former first lady also offered a message of hope to
anyone who might be feeling anxious about the current political climate. “We
have always come out at the other end – better and stronger," she said.
"We are moving in a direction of diversity and inclusion. No-one ever said
it would be easy. We are just in the throes of the uneasy path of change.”
@MichelleObama "That
[weekend with divorced dad] feels like fun but then you get sick." As a
divorced dad, I do my best to raise my son into a kind of man of which we all
can be proud. Your comment doesn't help people see that I'm conscientious and
competent to do a good job.
— Jason Catena (@catenate) April
15, 2019
@MichelleObama I'm a divorced dad
who loves his kids and is every bit of a good parent as Divorced Mom. I
generally don't like Trump and did like you, but you've shown that you can say
just as rude and insensitive comments as Trump.
— Keith Burrus (@neoncactus44)
April 15, 2019
Um, what's wrong with a divorced
dad, though? More than 50% of marriages end in divorce and I know a lot of
divorced dads who are doing the hard work like any other single parent in this
country.
— Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC)
April 16, 2019
^ If she is so against divorced
Dads I wonder what she thinks of parents who simply abandon their children.
Wouldn't it be better to be a divorced parent who has fun with their kids then
a parent that simply abandons their child? Both of her husband's parents
abandoned him. His Dad went back to Kenya where he married two more times and
had 7 other children. His Mom chose her 2nd husband (an Indonesian)and her daughter
over him. He was raised by his maternal Grandparents because both of his
parents didn't want him. So why does she only single-out divorced Dads and not
Divorced Moms? This, like her school lunch menu program, is a fail. ^
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