While all seemed cordial, their relationship didn’t remain that way despite the best efforts of Obama.
Cameras captured the moment, including the bewildered look on Obama’s face.
In 2018, when Obama appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”, she explained what happened.

“There’s all this protocol,” she said.
(viaUSA Today)Obama continued telling the story of her confusion.
And then my husband saved the day see he grabbed the box and took it back inside.

But everybody cleared out no staff, no one.
I was like, ‘What do you do with the box?'"
DeGeneres had to ask what was actually in the box after more than a year of the country wondering.

Obama revealed that it “was a lovely frame.”
“I have to be honest and say that none of this was easy for me.
Donald Trump had spread racist lies about my husband that had put my family in danger.

That wasn’t something I was ready to forgive.