Former President Barack Obama revealed “the thing we were good at” during his time in office was making decisions “with the American people in mind.”
The 44th president discussed if there were anything he would’ve done differently as president, knowing what he knows now, during a rare joint interview with his wife, former First Lady Michelle Obama, on Good Morning America on Wednesday.
“I always used to feel like I was making a mistake a day,” the Democrat said while chuckling.
“The thing that we were good at, and allowed me to sleep at night and get up and go back at it, was…I always felt that when we made decisions, we were making decisions with the American people in mind,” he said.
The Obamas sat down with GMA’s Robin Roberts at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, a museum telling the story of America’s first Black president and First Lady, ahead of its opening this weekend.
“There’s a lot of stuff I’m proud of,” the former president said of his eight years in office. “For all the resistance from our political opposition, the Affordable Care Act has now helped 50-60 million people, and continues to help people even though the current Congress is trying to weaken it and take away some of the subsidies that were really helping a lot of working people.”
“The thing I’m probably most proud of is the tone we set. I’m very proud of the message we sent to the country. We’re representing everybody,” he added.
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