Michelle Obama Honors Barack’s Legacy At Presidential Center Opening With A Tribute That’s Bound To Sting Trump

Michelle Obama shaded Trump Thursday about his lack of a Nobel Peace Prize.


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Former President Barack Obama on Thursday hosted the dedication and opening ceremony for the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, where a group of A-list talent set to perform put Donald Trump’s planned and since-canceled 250th-anniversary concerts to shame.

At the event Thursday, former First Lady Michelle Obama gave a speech where she listed several of her husband’s accomplishments, including the Nobel Peace Prize- which Trump, notably, has never won.

Trump, of course, spent the first year of his presidency complaining about his lack of a Nobel Peace Prize, often providing dubious lists of “wars” and that he credited himself for “ending.” This failed to deliver him the prize, as the Nobel organization tends not to reward people for sustained begging, although Trump was gifted the “FIFA Peace Prize” by the head of soccer’s world governing body, and was gifted the actual Nobel Peace Prize by its actual winner,  Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, although the Nobel organization was once again clear that gifting of the prize does not mean the recipient counts as an actual winner.

Social media users were amused by the former First Lady’s speech.

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