Podbit · The Megyn Kelly Show
Street interviews show Americans who don't know how old the country is, what war won independence, or even that it was Great Britain they broke from. Megyn Kelly and Maureen Callahan argue the 250th anniversary is being deliberately under-covered because celebrating it means celebrating Trump.
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Kelly plays a clip of Michelle Obama explaining she married a man 'not threatened by a challenging partner' and framing herself as Barack's 'co-leader.' Callahan counters that this is the same man who accepted the Democratic nomination in front of Greek columns at Invesco Field in Denver — a man who has 'suffered from delusions of grandeur since he was a teenager.' The hosts then react to a photo of Michelle's skirt bearing her deceased mother's face printed at approximately three feet across [1] — Maureen Callahan "At the Obama Presidential Library opening, Michelle Obama stood front and center in the official portrait while Barack lurked behind — then…" 1:02:50 , while Barack stands beside her looking, as Kelly puts it, 'like a beaten dog.' A People magazine clip claiming Barack told Michelle the library should be about Gandhi rather than him is savaged as a transparent fantasy.
At the Obama Presidential Library opening, Michelle Obama stood front and center in the official portrait while Barack lurked behind — then showed up in a silk-screened skirt bearing her deceased mother's face. Maureen Callahan calls it the ultimate self-centered hijack of her husband's legacy.
Michelle Obama wore a custom silk-screened skirt featuring her deceased mother's face printed on the front at the Obama Presidential Library opening event.
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