Michelle Obama: Who’s going to tell Trump the presidency is a ‘Black job?’

CNN —

Michelle Obama returned to her hometown of Chicago on Tuesday night to deliver a rousing and forceful endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris during the second night of the Democratic National Convention.

Throughout the speech, the former first lady didn’t mince words when she spoke about Donald Trump and the threat she feels he poses to the country and democracy.

And, in perhaps her most frank and public comments to date, Obama spoke about the racism she and former President Barack Obama experienced during their eight years in the White House – attacks that were often perpetuated by Trump, who spent years pushing of the “birtherism” conspiracy theory about the birthplace and presidential eligibility of the first Black president.

“For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us,” she said. “His limited narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hard-working, highly educated, successful people – who happen to be Black.”

“Wait, I want to know – who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those ‘Black jobs’?” she said.

The allusion to a widely criticized remark Trump made in June during CNN’s presidential debate earned loud cheers from the thousands of delegates at the convention.

Michelle Obama later accused Trump of using the “same old con, doubling down on ugly misogynistic, racist lies as a substitute for real ideas and solutions that will actually make people’s lives better.”

Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator Keith Boykin said the audience could feel Obama’s passion – and at times frustration – as she delivered the speech at the United Center.

“I took it as a reflection of