“Barak and I left there for the last time White House January 20, 2017, to accompany Donald and Melania Trump to the inauguration ceremony,” he says. Michelle Obama in his book Becoming – My story, “That day I experienced so many sensations at the same time: fatigue, pride, frustration, impatience. But above all, I tried to remain calm, aware that the cameras were watching our every move.” For two presidential terms, this building – large, strict and full of security measures – was their home, barrack they watched their daughters grow up in the long corridors, they played with the dogs in the park, they also tried to be a normal family. Anyway, they left a sign at the White House, and for that reason it’s impressive to be back after so many years. Michelle and Barack Obama returned to the White House for the first time since 2017 to attend an event in their honor.

On Wednesday, portraits of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama were unveiled at the White House: the two portraits will remain in the hallways of the residence, along with portraits of other former presidents of the past. “A girl like me should never have been around Jacqueline Kennedy and Dolly Madison.”Michelle said in her acceptance speech, ‘She should never have lived in this house, and she definitely shouldn’t have served as the first lady.’ ‘We love you!'” someone in the crowd called out to her at that moment. The East Room, made up of former Obama staffers and new Biden staffers, Michelle’s painting was painted by Sharon Sprang and depicts her in a formal dress sitting on a couch in the Red Room of the White House, instead of Barack, it is Robert McCurdy on which he is standing in black suit and tie. “Presidents often take on a mythical status, especially after they’re gone, and people forget everything they didn’t like,” he said. his shirt or his gray hair.”When you sit at this table, you understand,” he added, “that presidents and the first lady are people. not like everyone else. We have our gifts. We have our shortcomings. We have good days and bad days. We feel the same joy and sadness, disappointment and hope.”

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Michelle Obama says in her book that before leaving the White House, she asked herself what would be left of them and the years they lived there. “We were the forty-fourth first family and only the eleventh to serve two full terms in the White House,” he wrote, “We were and always will be the first black family. I hoped that in the future, when parents took their children to the building, as I did with Malia and Sasha when their father was a senator, they could show them some memories of our time there. From now on, everyone will be able to point to two new portraits.