Michelle Obama Weaponized Against Trump

As part of Hillary Clinton’s desperate bid to attract millennial voters who just don’t find her appealing, the Democratic nominee on Wednesday trotted out Michelle Obama on the trail.

The first lady proceeded to suggest Donald Trump isn’t mature enough to be the president of the United States.

“When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally,” she said at an event at La Salle University in Philadelphia. “We need an adult in the White House. I guarantee you.”

“We need an adult in the White House.”

Such a choice of words is rich for Michelle Obama. Her and her husband’s stay in the White House has been a textbook lesson in impropriety. They have debased the office of the president and the role of first lady, choosing celebrity over dignity at every turn, chumming about with crass professional athletes and vulgar pop stars at White House parties.

Making appearances on multiple TV shows ranging from “Ellen” to “Parks and Recreation” to “Sesame Street,” Obama apparently likes the spotlight. She has clearly tried to build herself up as a celebrity through highly publicized initiatives like her White House garden and “Let’s Move.”

Of course her signature achievement, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, part of which mandated restrictions on the one thing that actually makes cafeteria food palatable — salt — was a signature failure.

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Obama too has displayed an affection for superficial celebrity-like TV guest spots, appearing on such programs as “American Idol,” “Ellen,” “Running Wild with Bear Grylls,” and the two web series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” and “Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis.”

Indeed, our current president, whose wife would have us believe takes the gravity of his role seriously, made time to film an appearance on “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” during a diplomatic visit to Vietnam — yet couldn’t seem to take a break from his golf holiday to visit flood-stricken Louisiana.

Liberals may argue these points seem insignificant in light of Trump’s heavily televised past and celebrity status — his involvement with pageants, professional wrestling, and “The Apprentice,” etc. But the difference is glaring. Trump sought and attained celebrity status long before he chose to run for president.

Unfortunately, there’s more to Michelle Obama’s immature behavior than a mere infatuation with celebrity status. Much like her husband, Obama has a habit of making irresponsible, inflammatory comments about race when she could be making calls for unity.

“The road ahead is not going to be easy. It never is, especially for folks like you and me,” she said while giving a commencement address at Tuskegee University, a historically black school. “Because while we’ve come so far, the truth is those age-old problems are stubborn, and they haven’t fully gone away,” she added, referring to events in Ferguson and Baltimore.

“I wake up in a house that was built by slaves,” she said during another commencement address in June 2016, a comment she repeated during her address at the Democratic National Convention this year.

Between Clinton, who will do and say anything to get elected, and the Obamas, who apparently see the world through the eyes of angry, idealistic teenagers, Donald Trump seems quite the serious adult in the room at present — the only one willing to seriously address the real problems that face America today.

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And while Trump may have directed a rude comment toward the odd woman from time to time, all admittedly ungentlemanly acts, even he likely has the common sense and courtesy not to put his arm around the Queen’s shoulder as if greeting a peasant.

Ultimately, it’s unlikely Michelle Obama’s appearance on the trail will be enough to save Clinton’s image among millennials. A Quinnipiac poll released in mid-September showed that of the nearly 75 percent of millennials who opposed Trump, more than half of them favored either Gary Johnson or Jill Stein over Clinton.

Ultimately, for those disillusioned with Obama’s time in office, it will only put them off — and for those who truly love Obama, it will surely only remind them that Clinton is not him.