Former first lady Michelle Obama has a message for everybody complaining about living in COVID-19 quarantine: “Welcome to our world.”
In an interview with The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah to promote her latest health campaign, the two talked about living in the White House, with Obama comparing it to an “older hotel” where people need permission to leave.
“It almost feels like you were living a sort of quarantine life before all of us were,” said Noah.
“Well, this is what I tell people,” Obama said, who early in her husband’s term flew to New York City for a date night.
“Barack and I are like, ‘What, you can’t go out just when you want to? We’ve been doing that for eight years,” she said of their two terms in the White House, which comes with a staff of butlers and cooks.
She described the difficulties in just going out of the White House.
“You’ve got security with you at all times. You can’t make a move, and you have to think about how your movements impact the rest of the world. Every time we went out, we had to think about it, it’s like, who’s going to have to shut down what gate, how is this going to disrupt this whole community because the presidential motorcade is coming through. We have to worry about agents and not doing something that will put them in harm’s way,” said Obama.
And with that background, she said, “We’re good in quarantine. We’re like, ‘Welcome to our world, everyone, this is what it’s been like.’”
