I mean, did he lie?

What she said only furthered to distance herself from a part of her identity that she could have positively embraced in that moment. The comment about Michelle Obama was not about semantics or some stray observation. The association between blacks/monkeys at it was made has been a long-standing racist point of attack and she cannot be so ignorant as to not know that. Or maybe she could, I don't know. In any case, besides the naked mole rat mess, he had a lot of very good points.