Michelle Obama, who has been in and out of the spotlight since leaving the White House, was interviewed by Shonda Rhimes yesterday when she made a special appearance at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women (the one Barack Obama crashed with a gushy video message about his wife). There, she made her opinion on Donald Trump known... without ever saying his name, the way Michelle Obama always has with Trump.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, while Obama spoke about female empowerment, she also wasted no time before commenting on the current White House: "For the last eight years, we had a standard of ethics, a lot of constraints. What it means to have a commander-in-chief that actually upholds the standards of the White House."
She then went on to talk about the expectations for women and minorities, making a more apparent dig at Trump:
"We as women feel like we have to be perfect all of the time. We worry too much about that. Women, minorities, the bars are different. We experienced that over the last eight years. The bar just kept moving. We're seeing that now, quite frankly. The bar is just—," Obama said as she lowered her hand down.
But, of course, she also had some inspirational words for women across the country, saying she wants "women to pay attention because this is what happens when we don't stand up."
"I've been at so many tables and met so many fools who are imposters, but shame on us if we just let an imposter put us down. When you know what's right and you don't say anything, you see wrong happening and you sit quietly, that's what I want women to challenge to be, to speak up. We don't get to the right answers without raising our voices."
She may no longer be in the White House, but once our FLOTUS, forever our FLOTUS.
