Former first lady Michelle Obama, in an interview airing Wednesday, said she still believes in her credo of "when they go low, we go high," and said she does not take President Donald Trump's push to undo her husband's work personally.
"You learn that vindication in the moment is so short term," Obama told "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King, in a wide-ranging interview, adding that going low "means you're operating from your place of emotion...More often than not, you don't get results when you go low."
Meanwhile, Obama said that doesn't mean one doesn't express feelings or acknowledge them, and that she learned the power of words while her husband Barack Obama was president.
Obama also discussed with King the ongoing discourse in politics, and had a simple answer for why President Donald Trump won the 2016 election: "Because a lot of people came to the polls and a lot of people didn't."
Obama, in her new memoir, "Becoming," said she was shocked the night she learned Trump would win, and slammed his "birther" claims against her husband.
However, she told King that even with Trump's actions after taking office, the presidency "wasn't ours to own."
"It's not how me and Barack feel," she said. "We did our jobs. We did the best that we could do, you know...I don't take it personally. Because we occupied that seat for eight years and did the best that we could do and the next president that is voted in gets to do the same thing."
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