Michelle Obama has always done her best to be polite and gracious about her husband’s successor – which is no small thing when you consider that person is Donald Trump.

However, when Helen Drinan, the president of Simmons College, interviewed Michelle onstage about the current president, the former FLOTUS admitted that she’s been forced to use a lot of what her husband taught her – namely, “temperament and patience”.

“We’re at a point in time where we have to figure out who we want to be as a nation. We’ve had two stark examples of what we can be,” said Michelle.

“I certainly know what direction I want the country to go in, and I want to continue to build a country that’s based on empathy and compassion and generosity and goodwill.

“I want to be in a nation where we give one another the benefit of the doubt, where we have open arms and we’re full of inclusion, but we have to fight for that vision. It just doesn’t happen, and we can’t take it for granted.”

Michelle went on to say that everything happening in the White House at the moment is “what happens when we take things for granted,” describing her husband’s eight-year presidency as being like living with the “good parent” who “told you to eat your carrots and go to bed on time.”

“And now, perhaps, we have the other parent in the house,” she continued.

“We thought it’d feel fun – maybe it feels fun to some for now because we can eat candy all day and stay up late, and not follow the rules.”

Michelle Obama just nailed the big difference between Trump and her husband