Former first lady Michelle Obama took a shot at the size of President Donald Trump’s inauguration crowd Monday, noting “there weren’t many people there.”
Obama, 59, described the “emotional” day in January 2017 when she, former President Barack Obama and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, left the White House for the final time after eight years and flew over the scene on the National Mall.
“You walk through the Capitol, you wave goodbye, you get on Marine One, and you take your last flight flying over the Capitol, where there weren’t that many people there — we saw it, by the way!” she said in a snippet of her new “The Light Podcast” shared with People magazine.
Michelle Obama added in the interview that she was also struck by the lack of diversity at Trump’s swearing-in.
”To sit on that stage and watch the opposite of what we represented on display — there was no diversity, there was no color on that stage,” she said. “There was no reflection of the broader sense of America.”