It was painful to watch US elections, says Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama, first lady of the United States, says watching the 2016 US presidential election was painful.

Time reports that the wife of the president revealed this while speaking to Oprah Winfrey in a farewell interview at the White House.

Michelle Obama and her husband, Barrack Obama, campaigned for Hillary Clinton, the presidential candidate for the Democratic party, in the US election. However, Clinton lost the campaign to Donald Trump, candidate for the Republican party.

“You know, this past election was challenging for me as a citizen. To watch and experience. It was painful,” Obama said during the interview.

“You kind of saw the tea leaves. I kind of felt like how things were going by the time I went to bed. So mentally, I’d already kind of digested it before I actually read it.”