{"id":25311,"date":"2018-11-10T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=25311"},"modified":"2018-11-10T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T12:00:07","slug":"michelle-obama-on-trump-id-never-forgive-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/michelle-obama-on-trump-id-never-forgive-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama on Trump: &#8220;I\u2019d never forgive him&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25312\" style=\"width: 268px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25312\" class=\"wp-image-25312\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/11\/image-198x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"391\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture: Courtesy of Crown Publishing Group<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Expected to be released on November 13<\/b><b>th<\/b><b>, Michelle Obama\u2019s memoir <\/b><b><i>Becoming <\/i><\/b><b>details her experience throughout Donald Trump\u2019s constant advertisement of his birther conspiracy theory. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/in-revealing-new-memoir-michelle-obama-candidly-shares-her-story\/2018\/11\/08\/6bc1d2ca-e20e-11e8-b759-3d88a5ce9e19_story.html?utm_term=.5beb42062fd6\">Washington Post<\/a> <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">published a snippet of the memoir: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed. But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks,\u201d she writes. \u201cWhat if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and drove to Washington? What if that person went looking for our girls? Donald Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family\u2019s safety at risk. And for this I\u2019d never forgive him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An &#39;extremely credible source&#39; has called my office and told me that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BarackObama<\/a>&#39;s birth certificate is a fraud.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/232572505238433794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The former First Lady begins her book tour on 13<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of November in Chicago and continues throughout 10 cities in the United\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">States. She is also coming to the Southbank Centre in London on Monday the 3<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rd of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">December.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25320\" style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25320\" class=\"wp-image-25320\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-09-at-12.47.20-774x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"228\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie via Instagram<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mrs Obama will only be in the UK for one day and she will be joined by author of <em>We should all be feminists,\u00a0<\/em>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for a 90-minute discussion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The tickets for the event went on sale at 10:00 am on Wednesday<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0November 7th and sold out within minutes. Thousands of people were placed in online queues with positions as far back as the 60,000<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> place. Some fans even arrived at Southbank Centre at 4:30 am to get tickets, as reported by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/michelle-obama-at-southbank-centre-tickets-appear-on-viagogo-for-10000-after-book-tour-talk-sells-a3984431.html\">The Standard<\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tickets were advertised on the resale site Viagogo for upwards of \u00a370,000. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Salvi Shahlaie | Subbing: Harry Lye<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expected to be released on November 13th, Michelle Obama\u2019s memoir Becoming details her experience throughout Donald Trump\u2019s constant advertisement of his birther conspiracy theory. 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