Michelle Obama Finally Addressed Why She Skipped Trump’s Inauguration

“It started with not having anything to wear,” Michelle Obama explained about the moment she decided to skip the inauguration. “I was like, if I’m not going to do this thing, I got to tell my team, I don’t even want to have a dress ready, right? Because it’s so easy to just say let me do the right thing.”

She said avoiding the inauguration was part of recent efforts she’s made to practice the “art of saying no” when it feels right.

“It’s a muscle that you have to build,” she said. “And I think we suffered, because it’s almost like we started training late in life to build that muscle, right? I am just now starting to build it.”