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The wife of the ex-US President appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s chat show last night in her latest engagement to promote her memoir, Becoming. During the interview, Mrs Obama was asked about the day she left the White House for the last time. The former First Lady then went on to draw attention to the awkward gift encounter.

Describing her final hours of calling One Pennsylvania Avenue her home, she said: “A lot was going on that day.

“Right before that my daughters’ friends decided they needed a sleepover for the last day. I was like, ‘are you guys kidding me?’

Explaining how she dealt with her children, she said she told them: “‘We’re leaving, you’ve got to take all your stuff, pick up the blankets and the bears’ and they were all crying and I was just like ‘get out’, we’ve got to go.”

Addressing Melania Trump’s gift immediately afterwards, she added: “So, there was that and then there was the Tiffany’s box.

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