Becoming Michelle Obama
As Barack Obama’s second term as President was drawing to a close and the campaign for the next election started, the media outlets in the country were thrown into what Michelle Obama calls “a quandary” in her autobiography, Becoming . The quandary was “how to quote (Donald Trump’s bragging) without violating the established standards of decency.” What Trump had bragged about was his successful assaulting of women with impunity. “I can hurt you and get away with it.” That was Trump’s explicit attitude towards women, asserts Michelle Obama repeatedly in the final chapter of her book. When the United States of America elected that man as their 45 th President, was the country making a boisterous political statement about its own standards of decency? When they re-elected him for a second term later, what statement were they making again? Michelle Obama doesn’t ask these questions. But she answers them implicitly in the last pages of her book. Trump’s kind of politics is “nastiness...
