Donald Trump warned in a threatening manner Michelle Obama that she made a “big mistake” by being “mean” to him at a rally in Atlanta.

Speaking at Georgia Monday evening at the Institute of Technology, the former president struck a cheerful, ironic tone as he warned the former first lady that she had “opened a bit of a box.”

“Are you the one who was mean to me? Michelle Obama,” Trump said, provoking a large chorus of boos, jeers and screams from his audience. “She was really – oooooh.”

“I’ve always tried to be so kind and respectful,” he continued, even though he had spent years accusing the former first lady’s husband of being secretly born in Kenya and therefore ineligible to be president of the United States.

“Oooooh! She opened a little bit of a box. She opened a little bit of something,” Trump said. “She was mean, whooo.

“It shouldn’t be like this. It’s a big mistake she made. With your support on November 5, we will achieve success that no one can imagine.”

Trump’s comments were a response to a speech by Michelle Obama on Saturday in Michiganwhere she accused him of “gross incompetence”, “erratic behavior” and “obvious mental decline”.

“I hope you’ll forgive me if I’m a little frustrated that some of us choose to ignore Donald Trump’s gross incompetence, while asking Kamala to dazzle us at every turn,” Obama said.

“I hope you will forgive me if I am a little angry because we are indifferent to his erratic behavior, to his obvious mental decline, to his past as a convicted criminal, a known slum lord, a convicted predator responsible for sexual abuse. »

These words referred to Trump’s policies guilty verdict in Manhattan in its secret money scandal, its infamous history as ownerand a verdict in defamation trial from a woman who accused him of sexual assault.

Later in Trump’s speech Monday, when he brought up Michelle Obama again, some of his supporters began chanting, “Lock her up! Lock her up!” Trump was silent for a few seconds, before reprimanding them: “Be kind.”

It happened during a busy campaign day for Trump and Kamala Harristhe latter organizing a rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan, while Barack Obama And Bruce Springsteen ignited the crowd in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.