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what not having hope feels like’</h1> <div id="ra-headline-short">Michelle Obama: ‘We are feeling what not having hope feels like’</div> <div class="ra-meta"> <div class="ra-byline"> BY <a rel="author" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/authors?author=Meg-Wagner" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">Meg Wagner</a> <a id="ra-follow" href="https://www.twitter.com/megwagner" target="_blank"></a> </div> <div id="ra-credits">NEW YORK DAILY NEWS</div> <div id="ra-date-published" content="2016-12-16T13:38:14">Friday, December 16, 2016, 1:38 PM</div> </div> </header> <ul class="ra-share" id="ra-share-top"> <li class="ra-share-f"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/michelle-obama-feeling-not-hope-feels-article-1.2913255#">facebook</a> </li> <li class="ra-share-t"> <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Michelle%20Obama:%20‘We%20are%20feeling%20what%20not%20having%20hope%20feels%20like’&url=http://nydn.us/2hWXGqO">Tweet</a> </li> 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<section class="ra-meta"> <div class="ra-byline"> BY <a rel="author" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/authors?author=Meg-Wagner" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">Meg Wagner</a> <a id="ra-follow" href="https://www.twitter.com/megwagner" target="_blank"></a> </div> <div class="ra-credits">NEW YORK DAILY NEWS</div> <div id="ra-date-published" content="2016-12-16T13:38:14">Friday, December 16, 2016, 1:38 PM</div> </section> </aside> <article id="ra-body" itemprop="articleBody"> <p> Michelle Obama understands your despair, America.</p> <p> The first lady suggested that the election of Donald Trump has drained the country of the hope her husband’s 2008 campaign ran on.</p> <p> In <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/first-lady-michelle-obama-on-husbands-legacy-of-hope/" target="_blank">an interview with Oprah Winfrey,</a> Michelle Obama said he believes President Obama’s administration achieved the platform he promised — hope — because Americans “feel the difference now.”</p> <p> “Now we are feeling what not having hope feels like," she said in a Friday clip previewing the interview, which is set to air on CBS Monday.</p> <p> <a class="ra-related" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/michelle-obama-hosts-private-screening-hidden-figures-article-1.2912539">Michelle Obama hosts private screening of 'Hidden Figures'</a> </p> <p> Michelle Obama insisted she and her husband — whose first presidential campaign in 2008 featured an iconic poster of his likeness with the word “hope” — believe hope is “a necessary concept.”</p> <div class="ra-module h" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" itemid="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2913253.1481912929!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/usa-trump.jpg"> <figure class="ra-figure"> <span class="ra-enlarge"></span> <img srcset="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2913253.1481912929!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/usa-trump.jpg 750w, http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2913253.1481912929!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/usa-trump.jpg 1200w" alt="U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak during a USA Thank You Tour event at Giant Center in Hershey, Penn. Thursday." src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2913253.1481912929!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/usa-trump.jpg%20750w,%20http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2913253.1481912929!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/usa-trump.jpg%201200w"> <figcaption> <h2 class="ra-caption" itemprop="description">U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak during a USA Thank You Tour event at Giant Center in Hershey, Penn. Thursday.</h2> <span class="ra-credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS)</span> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <p> “Barack didn't just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes,” she said. “He and I and so many believe that — what else do you have, if you don’t have hope? What do you give your kids if you can’t give them hope?”</p> <p> Without mentioning Trump by name, the first lady quietly tore into the Republican businessman, insinuating that the nation will lose a “grownup in the White House” when President Obama’s term ends in January.</p> <p> She said her husband has been a steady leader able to comfort the nation even during tremulous times and compared him to the father of “a toddler that bumps his head on the table.”</p> <p> <a class="ra-related" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/w-va-nonprofit-director-return-racist-obama-post-article-1.2907861">W. 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It’s OK.”</p> <p> “I feel that way about the nation,” she said. “I feel that Barack has been that for the nation in ways that people will come to appreciate.”</p> <p> She continued: “Having a grownup in the White House who can say to you in times of crisis and turmoil, ‘Hey, it’s gonna be OK. Let’s remember the good things that we have. Let’s look at the future. Let’s look at all the things that we’re building.’ All of this is important for our kids to stay focused and to feel like their work isn’t in vain — like their lives aren’t in vain.”</p> <p> <a class="ra-related" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/colorado-doctor-called-michelle-obama-monkey-face-resigns-article-1.2897387">Colorado doctor who called Michelle Obama ‘monkey face’ resigns </a> </p> <p> “What do we do if we don’t have hope, Oprah?”</p> <dl id="ra-tags"> <dt>Tags:</dt> <dd> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/tags/michelle-obama">michelle obama</a> </dd> <dd> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/tags/donald-trump">donald trump</a> </dd> <dd> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/tags/barack-obama">barack obama</a> </dd> <dd> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/tags/oprah-winfrey">oprah winfrey</a> </dd> </dl> <a 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