"WASHINGTON (AP) — Former first lady Michelle Obama blasts President Donald Trump in her new book, writing how she reacted in shock the night she learned he would replace her husband in the Oval Office and tried to “block it all out.”
She also denounces Trump’s “birther” campaign questioning her husband’s citizenship, calling it bigoted and dangerous, “deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks.”
Obama is admired worldwide and has offered few extensive comments on her White House years
...Obama launches her promotional tour Tuesday not at a bookstore, but at Chicago’s United Center, where tens of thousands of people have purchased tickets — from just under $30 to thousands of dollars — to attend the event moderated by Oprah Winfrey.
Other stops on a tour scaled to rock star dimensions are planned at large arenas from New York City’s Barclays Center to the Los Angeles Forum, with guests including Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Jessica Parker.
...Widely praised as a gifted orator and communicator, Michelle Obama has long said she has no interest in running for office, although she held a few campaign-style rallies before the midterms urging people to register to vote.
The rallies were part of her work as co-chairman of the nonpartisan, nonprofit organization When We All Vote.
Last month, she launched a program to help empower girls worldwide through education.
The Global Girls Alliance aims to support more than 1,500 grassroots organizations combating the challenges girls encounter in their communities...
__This story has been corrected to show Mrs. Obama launched the program last month, not last year."
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