Michelle Obama
CHICAGO: began her 12-stop tour of her memoir, Becoming, this week by sitting with Oprah Winfrey before an audience of 14 000. Crying on the plane leaving Washington on Inauguration Day in 2017, she told Winfrey it “was just the release of eight years trying to do everything perfectly”.
She writes that US President Donald Trump’s “innuendos” about her husband’s birth certificate put “my family’s safety at risk. I’d never forgive him”. Trump has replied that he’d never forgive his predecessor for making the country “very unsafe”.
The memoir has topped Amazon. com’s bestseller list. WASHINGTON: US First Lady Melania Trump has called publicly for the deputy national security adviser to be dismissed.
After reports circulated that President Donald Trump had decided to remove Mira Ricardel from her post at the National Security Council, Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s spokesperson, said: “It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honour of serving in this White House.”
The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the first lady’s staff and Ricardel had clashed during Mrs Trump’s visit to Africa in October over such things as seating on the airplane and requests to use the council’s resources.
A White House official said Ricardel wanted to travel to Africa with the first lady but was denied seating on the plane because there was no room for her and several others who initially expected to make the trip. Ricardel then threatened not to send any NSC staff.