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Sasha Obama's Name Revealed & Twitter Can't Handle It

As former president of the United States, or POTUS as he was also known, Barack Obama is a name that almost everyone in the world would be aware of.

Even after being replaced by Donald Trump, he's often in the spotlight, along with his family, wife Michelle and daughters Sasha, who just celebrated her 16th birthday, and Malia, now 18.

However Twitter practically went into meltdown after the news resurfaced that Sasha isn't actually his youngest daughter's real name.

Her birth name is actually Natasha, and people couldn't deal with the revelation.

Michelle Obama, and former U.S. President Barack Obama originally named Sasha, Natasha [Getty]

"Today is the one year anniversary of me finding Sasha Obama's actual first name is Natasha," wrote Twitter user features writer Ashley C. Ford announced to her 83k followers, and no one could handle the revelation.

"Today I found out Sasha Obama's first name is actually Natasha and everything I know is a lie," one Twitter user replied.

From his final speech at the White House to reading mean tweets, we're counting down the times Barack Obama was the coolest president ever

Another said: "Sasha Obama is actually Natasha Obama? I feel dumb and deceived."

Sasha recently celebrated her 16th birthday.

The Internet went into shock [Twitter]

People couldn't believe it [Twitter]

People couldn't get over Sasha's REAL name [Twitter]

She was just seven when Barack became president, and grew up in the White House.

Here Is The Date For Michelle Obama Final talk show appearance as first lady on The Tonight Show

Michelle Obama will appear as a talk show guest for the final time as sitting first lady on Jan. 11, when she appears on The Tonight Show for the third time since first going on the NBC series in February 2014.

More recently, Obama and Oprah Winfrey teamed up for an hour-long television special titled First Lady Michelle Obama Says Farewell to the White House — An Oprah Winfrey Special, which aired in December on both CBS and Winfrey’s network, OWN. There, Obama discussed the Obama administration’s focus on hope.

“Hope is necessary,” she told Winfrey. “It’s a necessary concept. And Barack didn’t just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes. He and I and so many believe that what else do you have if you don’t have hope? What do you give your kids if you can’t give them hope?”

See Obama on The Tonight Show when the episode airs Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 11:35 p.m. ET on NBC.

11 Michelle Obama's Shocking Words To Oprah Winfrey

Lady Michelle Obama Says Farewell to the White House: An Oprah Winfrey Special.

Though Oprah's questions ranged in topics from the serious to the silly, it was clear from the host's tone that she was pretty much in awe. Numerous times during their chat, Oprah interjected asides expressing how much it meant to her that Michelle had simply occupied the post of First Lady. "You're just being here," the host mused dreamily. "We wanted a little bit of that for ourselves." Here are the 10 most revealing moments from their chat.

1. Michelle Obama considered not addressing Trump's comments about women during her speech at Clinton's rally.

Back before Donald Trump was the President-elect, Michelle spoke at a rally for Hilary Clinton. "We saw this candidate bragging about sexually assaulting women," Michelle said to the crowd. "I can't stop thinking about this. It has shaken me to my core in a way that I couldn't have predicted."

After reflecting on those comments, Michelle told Oprah, "To have a candidate for the presidency speaking about women in such terms was not a normal thing, and so my response, in light of what I was seeing from my female staff, what I was hearing from my daughters, their reaction to it, for me, required a different kind of response. You can't just stand before people and just give a regular political speech."

Though she considered not addressing Trump's now-infamous comments made during an interview with Billy Bush, Michelle said she simply couldn't avoid it: "Do I just go out there and act like that didn't happen? That's not true. That's not honest."

2. Michelle went to bed on election night without knowing who won.

Well, she kinda knew. "Pretty much, you kind of saw the tea leaves," she confessed. "Mentally, I'd already digested it before I actually read it." She didn't actually read it, however, until the next morning when she checked her iPhone.

3. Michelle gave Melania some advice during their meeting.

"It was very pleasant," Michelle said of her time with the incoming First Lady. "It was a wonderful visit." But that didn't mean Michelle didn't have some words of wisdom for Melania Trump. "My offer to Melania was, 'You really don't know what you don't know until you're here, so the door is open,' as I've told her and as Laura Bush told me and as other First Ladies told me," Michelle revealed. (We'll have to wait and see if Melania takes Michelle up on that offer.)

4. Michelle is busy packing to move out — kind of.

"I do a lot of pointing," she said with a laugh. (But no, she's not actually on her knees packing boxes.)

5. Michelle feels badly for young celebrities.

Asked by Oprah how she stood in her truth throughout her time in the White House, Michelle said she relied on "being a grown-up," explaining that her job would have been much more challenging for her if she were only 20 or 30 years old. "I look at these young celebrities, and I just feel for them," Michelle added.

6. When her teenage daughters complain about having to deal with a security detail, Michelle tells them:

"Girl, you live in the White House!"

7. So…will Michelle ever run for office?

In one word: no. "No, no," she said. When Oprah asked again in a slightly different way, Michelle added, "Look, that's one thing I don't do. I don't make stuff up. I'm not coy. I'm pretty direct. If I were interested in it, I would say it. I don't play games.… People don't understand how hard this is, and it's not something [where] you just cavalierly ask a family to do it again." She then added that if there are "conversations" happening about her possibly running for office, she isn't part of them.

8. Being in the White House made her marriage closer.

"We can't leave! We're stuck in here together!" she joked. (This was shortly after Barack Obama dropped in to praise the job she had done and casually ask her if she was wearing a new dress — a question she either didn't hear or chose to ignore.) She also added, on a more serious note, that when you're in the White House, your spouse is really the only other person in the world who understands what you're experiencing.

9. Michelle is down for glamping.

Michelle accepted Oprah's invitation to go glamping, but on the condition that Oprah did the cooking. They agreed Yosemite and other national parks would be a good getaway — so look out, Yosemite!

10. Michelle's mom is excited for their White House run to be over.

"Grandma is done!" Michelle declared when Oprah asked if Michelle's mom was going to stick around post-presidency. "She is going back to Chicago. She is like, 'Bye, Felicia!'" (Yes, Michelle just quoted the movie Friday, and we're all better off for it.) Barack mentioned that when his family took off in the chopper on his final day, they would be headed "some place warm."

For her part, Michelle emphasized that, despite all of their differences from the President-elect, they were going to support Trump. "When he succeeds, we succeed," she said.

Michelle Obama Labelled An 'Ape in Heels' by West Virginia Officials

We have never deserved Michelle Obama: it’s a truth made more certain with each passing day. And we’ve been reminded anew by two grotesquely racist officials in West Virginia who recently referred to her as an “ape in heels.”

According to the Washington Post, the hateful comments were exchanged on Facebook between two female officials from Clay, West Virginia, a small town outside Charleston. Pamela Ramsay Taylor, the now-former director of Clay County Development Corp., celebrated Donald Trump’s victory—and Melania Trump’s imminent position as FLOTUS—with the following remarks:

“It will be so refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady back in the White House. I’m tired of seeing an ape in heels.”

In response, Clay’s mayor, Beverly Whaling, commented, “Just made my day, Pam.”

UPDATE: CLAY DEVELOPMENT OFFICIAL SAYS MICHELLE OBAMA "AN APE IN HIGH HEELS" - Clay Mayor, Beverly Whaling Agrees https://t.co/qxkfRgxhVh pic.twitter.com/nikchhshKo
— Black Reparations!! (@ReparationsAct) 14 November 2016

Eventually, it must have occurred to someone that airing one’s flagrant racism is a bad look, especially for a town official. But by the time the comments were deleted, they had been captured via screenshot and shared across social media. By Monday afternoon, an online petition was circulating, demanding that both women be terminated.

The Facebook pages belonging to both Taylor and Whaling are no longer accessible, and both women have purportedly apologized. Whaling has also issued a statement to the Washington Post:

“My comment was not intended to be racist at all...I was referring to my day being made for a change in the White House! I am truly sorry for any hard feelings this may have caused! Those who know me know that I’m not of [sic] any way racist!

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Again, I would like to apologize for this getting out of hand!”

Taylor, who has been removed from her directorial position, has told local news stations that “hate crimes” are being perpetrated against her in the form of public response. Moreover, she says that death threats have been directed at her children, and that she has received them too. She intends to file lawsuits against everyone she believes to have either slandered her or printed libelous comments.

Clay County is an overwhelmingly white spot on the United States map. Only two-tenths of one percent of the population is African American, and over 75 percent of those who cast a ballot last Tuesday voted for Donald Trump. We can make an educated guess who both Taylor and Whaling supported.

Here is How Twitter Users Reacted To Michelle Obama Meeting With Donald Trump's Wife Melania Trump

So here we are days after America elected Donald Trump to the White House. As we try, through tears and confused depression, to process this, at least one thing remains clear: no one has forgotten about Melania Trump plagiarizing Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic National Convention speech in her Republican National Convention.

The first lady-elect met with the current first lady for tea at the White House and Twitter had a field day.