While Michelle was promoting her new book, The Light We Carry, on a late-night talk program, the subject of her and former President Barack Obama’s official White House portraits came up. Usually, the person who comes in after you extends an invitation to return and uncover the piece of art.
Well, when Donald and Melania Trump were in power, that didn’t happen, and Michelle showed in to spill some tea. Michelle told Fallon, “It was truly a great experience. “It’s a custom. The next president is intended to welcome you back to hang your official pictures when you complete them.
These photos have been completed for a very, very long time since we were never asked to return them. It’s lovely to see everyone, she mused. Last September, during Joe Biden’s presidency, the pair returned to perform the unveiling together with Robert McCurdy’s painting of Barack Obama and Sharon Sprung’s image of Michelle.
The former First Lady has been candid about how she feels about Donald Trump taking over her husband’s office. In a recent episode of The Light Podcast, she described the January 2017 Inauguration Day as “so emotional for so many different reasons.”
We had been keeping it together for eight years, Michelle said, “So as those doors shut, I wept for 30 minutes straight, hysterical crying. It seems sensible that leaving a significant part of their life behind would have been tough, but the Obamas’ photographs now exist in history.