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# Michelle Obama Issues Searing Rebuke to Donald Trump for His Comments

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## Video: Michelle Obama Issues Searing Rebuke to Donald Trump for His Comments

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_Published 2016-10-13. In a powerful and emotional speech Thursday in New Hampshire, Michelle Obama articulated what Donald Trump’s lewd comments meant to her as a woman._


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## Transcript

This was not just a lewd conversation. This wasn't just locker room banter. This was a powerful individual speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behavior, and actually bragging about kissing and groping women. Using language so obscene that many of us were worried about our children hearing it. When we turn on the TV. And to make matters worse. It now seems very clear that this isn't an isolated incident. It's one of countless examples of how he has treated women his whole life. And I have to tell you that I listen to all of this. And I feel it so personally. And I'm sure that many of you do to.

The shameful comments about our bodies. The disrespect of our ambitions and intellect. The belief that you can do anything you want to a woman. It is cruel. It's frightening and the truth is it hurts. All of us are doing what women have always done. We're trying to keep our heads above water. Just trying to get through it. Trying to pretend like this doesn't really bother us. Maybe because we think that admitting how much it hurts Makes us as women look weak. Maybe we're afraid to be that vulnerable. Maybe we've grown accustomed to swallowing these emotions and staying quiet, because we've seen that people often won't take our word over his.

Or maybe we don't want to believe that there's still people out there who think so little of us as women. Too many are treating this As just another day's headline. Democrat, Republican, Independent. No woman deserved to be treated this way. None of us deserves this kind of abuse. [ APPLAUSE ] I can tell you that the men in my life do not talk about women like this. And I know that my family is not unusual. [ APPLAUSE ] And to dismiss this As everyday locker room talk is an insult to decent men everywhere. [ APPLAUSE ] The men that you and I know don't treat women. They are loving fathers who are sicken by the thought of their daughters being exposed to this kind of vicious language about women.

They are husbands and brothers and sons who don't tolerate women being treated and demeaned and disrespected. [ INAUDIBLE ] [ APPLAUSE ] And like us- [ APPLAUSE ] These men are worried about the impact this election is having on our boys who are looking for role models- [ APPLAUSE ] Of what it means to be a man. Strong men, men who are truly role models. Don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful [ APPLAUSE ] People who are truly strong lift others up, people who are truly powerful bring others together and that is what we need in our next president, we need someone who is uniting force in this country.

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