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*Michelle Obama Tells Oprah She Cried on Plane After Trump's Inauguration *
Michelle Obama began her 12-stop book tour Tuesday by sitting with Oprah Winfrey before an audience at the home arena of the Chicago Bulls, speaking on everything from piano lessons and washing socks to crying on a plane the day her family moved out of the White House and President Donald Trump moved in.
The crowd of 14,000 roared as the former first lady stepped onto a stage at the sold-out United Center event, which felt part talk show, part political rally and part rock concert, complete with $35 Michele Obama T-shirts emblazoned with her face and the title of her just-released memoir, Becoming. Family pictures of Barack Obama and their children flashed on a screen over her shoulder as she spoke.
During the more than 90-minute conversation under Bulls' NBA championship banners in Obama's home city, she never directly criticized Trump. Crying on the plane leaving Washington on Inauguration Day 2017, she explained, had nothing to do with Trump.
"When I got on the plane, I sobbed for 30 minutes," she said. "I think it was just the release of eight years trying to do everything perfectly."
Obama turned to her husband, who had just become a former president. "I said to Barack, 'That was so hard, what we just did. That was so hard.'" She said she didn't mention that episode in her book.
She didn't criticize Trump directly at the event despite direct criticism of him in her book.
Michelle Obama began her 12-stop book tour Tuesday by sitting with Oprah Winfrey before an audience at the home arena of the Chicago Bulls, speaking on everything from piano lessons and washing socks to crying on a plane the day her family moved out of the White House and President Donald Trump moved in.
The crowd of 14,000 roared as the former first lady stepped onto a stage at the sold-out United Center event, which felt part talk show, part political rally and part rock concert, complete with $35 Michele Obama T-shirts emblazoned with her face and the title of her just-released memoir, Becoming. Family pictures of Barack Obama and their children flashed on a screen over her shoulder as she spoke.
During the more than 90-minute conversation under Bulls' NBA championship banners in Obama's home city, she never directly criticized Trump. Crying on the plane leaving Washington on Inauguration Day 2017, she explained, had nothing to do with Trump.
"When I got on the plane, I sobbed for 30 minutes," she said. "I think it was just the release of eight years trying to do everything perfectly."
Obama turned to her husband, who had just become a former president. "I said to Barack, 'That was so hard, what we just did. That was so hard.'" She said she didn't mention that episode in her book.
She didn't criticize Trump directly at the event despite direct criticism of him in her book.
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