Michelle Obama has been open about the dark side of Barack Obama’s job. She told Jay Shetty that having the insight track on world affairs can be terrifying. As FLOTUS, you’re inevitably going to be privy to many of the USA’s state secrets, and when the Secret Service comes knocking, you know that something is going down. Something that regular citizens are blissfully unaware of.
“It’s like, I don’t wanna know what was in that folder that you just got that made you quiet… I don’t wanna know why the security just pulled you over. So I know a lot about what is going on,” she said, adding, “What keeps me up are the things that I know.”
Michelle’s time in the White House left her in no doubt about any political aspirations she may have had herself. She admitted in a March 2016 SXSW speech that she will never, ever run for president. “No, no, not going to do it,” Michelle vowed, explaining that she believed her daughters, Malia and Sasha Obama, had gone through enough already during their father’s time in office. “They handled it with grace and with poise, but enough is enough. Also, there are so many ways to impact the world. You don’t have to be President of the United States.”
