Michelle Obama's 2024 US election comments stun social media — What did she say?

Michelle Obama, the former first lady of the United States has acknowledged that she is "terrified" about how the 2024 race might turn out as her comments go viral.

According to a November poll by the New York Times and Siena College, Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, is ahead of Joe Biden in five of the six important swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.

Obama enumerated November's presidential campaign among her worries when she appeared on a Monday episode of the podcast "On Purpose with Jay Shetty".

"What's going to happen in this next election? I'm terrified about what could possibly happen, because our leaders matter. Who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit, it affects us in ways sometimes I think people take for granted," she told Shetty.

"The fact that people think that government—'eh, does it really even do anything?'—and I'm like 'Oh my God, does government do everything for us, and we cannot take this democracy for granted.' And I worry sometimes that we do. Those are the things that keep me up."

During the wide-ranging conversation, Obama said she found "injustice, ego, greed, racism and ignorance offensive, and condemned childish leadership."

"The tone and tenor of the message matters. We can't just say what the first thing that comes to our minds," she said.

"That is not authenticity to me. That's childish, and we see childish leadership right before us—what that looks like and how that feels, where somebody is just base, and vulgar and cynical in a leadership position."