Michelle Obama Describes Donald Trump Presidency With Parenting Analogy Obama spoke at the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston on Thursday, where she discussed what’s transpired since Barack left and Trump took office. “I always felt like for the eight years Barack was president, it was like having the ‘good parent’ at home…And now we have the other parent. We thought it’d feel fun, maybe it feels fun for now because we can eat candy all day and stay up late, and not follow the rules. We're gonna at a point in time look at those two experiences and see how we feel. With Trump already acknowledging that he will run for a second term, Obama has an idea of what it will take to change things in Washington. “I think it's going to take young people, the next generation of leaders, to really determine what kind of world they want to be in — and voting has got to be a part of that equation.”