Michelle Obama on Tuesday appeared to open up publicly for the first time about her decision to skip President Trump's inauguration, saying she's at the point in her life where she's choosing "to do what was best" for herself.

In her 2024 memoir, the 54-year-old opened up about how she felt being accused of plagiarising a 2016 speech from one Michelle Obama made eight years earlier. During her husband Donald Trump's 2016 campaign to become US president, Melania addressed the nation in her first speech to American voters.

The former first lady alluded to a recent event she was “supposed to” attend and said she decided “to do what was best for me.”