Megyn Kelly slams ‘bitter’ Michelle Obama for claiming she was ‘under white, hot glare’ as first lady

WASHINGTON, DC: Megyn Kelly took a jab at Michelle Obama for her racially charged complaints about being first lady, calling her claims "bulls***."

The former first lady said she had to navigate the "white hot glare" as a Black first lady while discussing her new book, 'The Look,' on ABC News.

Megyn Kelly blasts Michelle Obama for racial remarks

During a recent segment of 'The Megyn Kelly Show,' the host was joined by Walter Kirn, editor-at-large of County Highway, to discuss Michelle Obama’s book tour and what she gets wrong about the United States.

They played a clip from Obama’s recent People interview, where she said, "We understand as women of color that the way our hair naturally grows out of our head is beautiful. But if we struggle to make it look like the standard, that means we are spending thousands of hours and lots of money straightening out what is naturally curly hair, right? And that takes time out of your life. It costs money."

Taking a jab at her, Kelly said, "What she’s saying is she’s bitter because society’s standards, in her view, don’t allow black women to just walk around with their natural hair. That is bulls***."

"Black women can walk around with whatever hair they want. Only in Michelle Obama’s warped mind do white people not like them unless their hair looks like white hair," she added.

Moreover, Kelly also said, "And here’s the other thing: The nerve of this woman to pretend that black women are the only women who have to spend a bunch of time getting their natural hair to ‘conform’ to these alleged society standards."

"If I went out there with my natural hair, I would look like a toddler, which is why I don’t… Virtually every woman I know spends a s**t ton of time on her hair and wants it to look better than God made it. It’s not a black thing. It’s a human thing, and it’s especially a woman thing. But she is always reducing everything to race," she added. 

Megyn Kelly says 'everything is a grievance' with Michelle Obama

During a primetime sit-down with Robin Roberts on ABC on Sunday, November 2, Michelle Obama said that her family was held to a different set of standards while her husband was president because of their race.

"You said, ‘We were all too aware that, as a first black couple, we couldn’t afford any missteps.’ And you also say, ‘As a black woman, I was under a particularly white, hot glare.’ Did you feel that?" Roberts asked.

Obama replied, "For sure. You can’t afford to get anything wrong because you didn’t get the– at least until the country came to know us, we didn’t get the grace that, I think, some other families have gotten."

"Now, don’t get me wrong, every first lady faces the kind of scrutiny, every woman in the public eye faces a certain level of scrutiny because of her physical appearance. I mean, we live in a culture, sadly, where, you know, if somebody wants to go after a woman, the first thing they do is go after our looks, our size, our physical being as a way to, you know, make us feel small, to keep us in place," the former first lady added.

Discussing her remarks, Walter Kirn said she had gotten it all wrong. He explained, "It is exactly the opposite of what she said. She got more grace. She could have done almost anything."

"And does she forget she had just been elected by a majority? We’d just shown that we approved of her. We did know her. We elected her. America had put her in the White House. The same America that wasn’t going to allow her any grace? What, they put her in the White House as a joke to trip her up? This is ridiculous. None of it happened. What is she talking about?" Kirn added.

Meanwhile, Megyn Kelly chimed in and said, "Everything is a grievance with this woman… 'We weren’t given the grace of the whites' – that is basically what she’s saying. And yet they were on every magazine cover. They were treated like Camelot reincarnate. Everybody celebrated them… Even the right-wing media gave them, like, a nod… They didn’t like his policies, but they were nice to them. They were universally celebrated."