BREAKING: Michelle Obama torches Donald Trump for corruptly accepting gifts and lowering the "standard" of behavior for the presidency — all without mentioning him by name.

This was a masterclass in throwing shade...

“When you are the commander in chief, there’s a standard at which you have to set for the American people. And some of these things aren’t even laws — they’re just norms,” Obama said at the Sixth & I synagogue and arts center in D.C.

“They’re just things that you do because you don’t want the people to feel like wealthy people have a different level of access and access to power,” she continued. "So that means you got to say ‘no’ a lot."

"Our motto was: If it looks like fun, we can’t do it," Mrs. Obama added.

Although she didn't mention the name of the disgrace currently occupying the Oval Office, it was clear who she was referring to. Donald Trump not only accepted a $400 million jet from Qatar, but he is now taking massive donations from corporations to pay for his $300 million vanity project ballroom. And those are just the big ticket items that we know about. Who knows what kind of gifts he's accepting behind closed doors.

Michelle Obama illustrated her point by recounting the story of a gift from Oprah Winfrey that she and her husband had to turn down—

“[Winfrey] sends a box of then-Ralph Lauren’s first-edition clothing line. It was like three suits, seven sweaters. I mean, it was an Oprah-sized gift,” she said, adding that Barack told her: "You can't keep that."

“He’s like, ‘I’m in office. We don’t accept gifts.'” Mr.s Obama said, adding with a smile: “Imagine that?”

During her conversation with New York Times critic-at-large Wesley Morris, Mrs. Obama also discussed Trump's deeply unpopular demotion of the East Wing to make way for his ballroom.

“Our view was this is not our house. We are here to do a job. We’re here for a turn. We’re here for a moment. We are caretakers of this history, and it’s about bringing more people in,” she said.

“I was always the kid growing up in the South Side of Chicago that didn’t feel welcome in some of these fancy places," he continued. "You go to the big store downtown and all of a sudden somebody’s following you. Or you go into the museum, and people think that you don’t belong."

“When Barack and I were there, we were thinking about those kids like us who were outside of the gates of the South Lawn looking in,” she went on.

“Every president has the right to do what they want in that house, so that’s why we got to be clear on who we let in,” she added.

Clearly, America made a grave mistake by letting Donald Trump in. Eventually he'll be gone and Democrats can set about the long hard process of putting this country back together.

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