NO GRIFTING HERE ❌ When the Obamas moved into the White House, one of the first things that surprised Michelle was the grocery bill.
The First Lady had assumed the government covered meals. It does not.
The First Family was expected to pay for all of their own food, and the White House kitchen staff operated like a very high-end personal catering service.
So when a peach or a piece of fruit got ordered that fell slightly outside the normal household budget, the itemized bill came back and it was, to put it plainly, staggering.
The First Lady later joked on Jimmy Kimmel Live that she had to warn Barack “not to express enjoyment of anything”… until she knew the price.
But underneath the humor was a real adjustment.
She’d come from a tight South Side Chicago home — raised in a cramped apartment by a dad who worked at the city water filtration plant and a mom who stayed home.
Her family had managed carefully and gratefully with what they had.
Suddenly she was in the most famous house in the world, but still watching what she spent. And she thought that was right.
She told Kimmel plainly that the Obamas should not be “mooching off taxpayers.”
When America was great, that’s how our leaders thought
