‘BECOMING’: Michelle Obama’s New Book, Reason For Awkward Handshake With Trump
The Oasis Reporters
December 15, 2018
Michelle Obama has done what most public personalities do after leaving office.
They write books that publishers fall over themselves to publish, certain that the public is curious to know what really happened while they were in office.
Former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan did it. He wrote My Transition Hours, a book that continues to generate furore, some readers for others against, yet folks and foes alike continue to buy, just as publishers continue to smile to the banks and the authors are happy with the proceeds.
America’s former first lady, Michelle Obama’s book, ‘Becoming’ was in Denver, Colorado, recently to promote her new autobiography, Becoming.
And while she was in the city, Obama paid an unexpected visit to Children’s Hospital Colorado, surprising hundreds of young patients were there, showing excitement and asking her many questions like if there’s a movie theatre in the White House, according to a news report by CBS4 Denver.
“Yes, there is a movie theater in the white house,” Obama responded, explaining that the former president enjoyed spending time in there.
During her appearance alongside a Santa lookalike, Obama read poems, signed autographs and answered questions from the inquisitive children, according to Newsweek magazine.
While in Denver, Obama attended a book signing at a bookstore, and also stopped off at the 18,000 capacity Pepsi Center where she gave a speech to a full house alongside actress Reese Witherspoon.
During the speech, Obama talked about how her family’s life was turned upside down when her husband became President.
“The minute the announcement happened, the world changed for us,” Obama told the audience, according to The Denver Post. “That’s what happens to spouses. You get immersed in the shadow of the political figure.”
The book, Becoming has now sold more than three million copies since being released on November 13, according to Forbes. In fact, the candid memoir has sold more copies than any other book published this year in the United States, breaking the record in just 15 days.
The book has its own elements of controversy, the former first lady saying in her memoir, Becoming, that she would “never forgive” Trump for pushing the “birther” conspiracy theory that falsely claimed that Barack Obama had not been born in the United States, which would have made him ineligible to be president.
“Donald Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk,” Michelle Obama wrote.
Trump, in a news conference shortly after the book’s publication, answered a reporter’s question about the memoir by attacking the former first couple again.
“Oh, Michelle Obama said that? I haven’t seen it. I guess she wrote a book, she got paid a lot of money to write a book, and they always insist that you come up with controversial–” President Trump said.
“Well, I’ll give you some controversy back. I’ll never forgive him [Barack Obama] for what he did to our United States military by not funding it properly,” Trump said. “It was depleted. Everything was old and tired, and I came in and I had to fix it, and I am in the process of spending tremendous amounts of money.”
Therefore when they met at the funeral of late President George Bush, they were simply cool to each other. Still, they did shake hands that lacked warmth.
