Michelle Obama: Barack and I Always Tried To Be Honest to People

Michelle Obama told Oprah Winfrey that she and her husband always tried to be "honest with the American people" over the last eight years.

The comments came amidst a conversation about Donald Trump's "caustic language." Here's an excerpt:

OBAMA: " --  a candidate for the presidency speaking in such terms about women, as I said, was not... It was not a normal thing. So my response, you know, in light of what I was seeing from my female staff, what I was hearing from my daughters, their reaction to it, for me required a different kind of response. You know, you can't just stand before people and just give a regular political speech and be--I was scheduled to go out on the stump right after this was happening. And the question was, well, do I just go out there and talk about-- "
WINFREY: "Like it never happened." 
OBAMA: "Like that never happened? That's not true. That's not honest. And that's something that Barack and I have always tried to be in this office, is honest, you know, so that people feel like when we say something, we do mean it. You know? So when that... At that time, there's no way that I could be out on the campaign trail and not address how that was making, not just me feel, but the women." 
WINFREY: "We could feel that you had been shaken to your core." 
OBAMA: "Yeah. Well, because a lot of people had been shaken to their core. And still are. They are still feeling the reverberations of that kind of caustic language."