America's first lady expressed disdain about media reports on children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border two years ago, according to newly revealed recordings.
"Give me a f _ -ing break!" she said of media questions about President Donald Trump's family separation policy in a conversation recorded by former confidant and aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.
She griped that the media didn't complain when her husband's predecessor separated children and parents at the border. "Where they were saying anything when Obama did that?" she said.
Some immigrant families were separated at the border during the Obama administration _ but President Barack Obama did not have a blanket family separation policy like the one Trump used to deter asylum seekers and illegal border crossers.
Wolkoff presented the recordings Thursday night on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360.
The first lady also expressed frustration with the annual White House Christmas celebration.
"Christmas stuff, that you know, who gives a f _ _ about Christmas stuff and decoration? But I need to do it, right?" the first lady groused to Wolkoff in the July 2018 conversation.
President Trump famously made political hay out of the so-called "War on Christmas" and boasted in 2017 that "With Trump as your president, we're going to be saying Merry Christmas again."
Wolkoff, who wrote a tell-all book this year, fell out with the first lady after she was blamed for the financial mismanagement of Trump's inaugural committee.
She has since cooperated with federal investigators probing the inaugural committee over allegations that it was used a slush fund to enrich the president's family.
